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| Above, morning at Crazy Horse Campgrounds in Lake Havasu. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Camping in hot weather can cause heat stroke and other maladies. I have camped in hot conditions a few times.
Generally, those hot camps were in the desert (where else?) such as Lake Havasu, Arizona and, more recently, in Quartzsite, Arizona.
In Lake Havasu, I generally stay at the Crazy Horse Campgrounds where they have electric hook-ups to power the motorhome air conditioner (plus the nearby lake). In Quartzsite, where we dry camped, we had to use some engenuity.
RV Travel posted some tips by Nanci Dixon for surviving camping in 105° heat.
She begins with:
We have started (well, almost) our RV summer migration to the cool green northern clime. But first, we needed to get all the floors in our house redone after an installer error. So instead of camping by pristine blue lakes lined with tall pines, we are in the hot brown desert lined with cactus.
We are using this time to get everything up to par for the trip and the summer: replacing water filters, recharging the water softener, checking the engine and generator, and fixing things neglected when we returned to Arizona. (I wrote more about our packing routine in Friday’s newsletter.)
What we didn’t factor in all this work is the brutal Arizona heat. Unfortunately, we are familiar with it from when we were camp hosts here late one year.
Here are the things we do to stay comfortable. While some seem like no-brainers, I am reminded that my brain didn’t remember.
To read more, go here.
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