OK. I give up. What are these hooks for?
At Lake Catherine State Park the RV sites have these green hooks, and I can't figure out what they're for. The entire assembly is probably six feet tall. There's a hook at the end that is obviously ...
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wa8yxm wrote:
You can use for a lantern but if you are tent camping you hang your garbage bag from them so the critters can't rip it open and make a major mess.
Ha, I'm the same as you. I immediately thought a garbage bag. It won't protect you from the bears, but it will keep raccoons and the like from destroying your trash and leaving you with a mess the next morning.
We usually don't use lanterns when camping, but early spring and late fall camping when the sun sets at 4:30 pm requires some exterior lighting by which to eat dinner. This past year we just clamped a utility throw light to the end of the awning. For next year I plan to buy a utility clamp light that we can use to give a small area of decent task lighting.
Very rarely do we have bright outside lights at night.
