Awesome compact COMFY camping chairs for your westy...

[vanagonjr]

[BillWYellowstone]

Very familiar with the need/want conundrum. I have many years of experience with that for sure. I usually go over to the want side of things. Heck the Westy was a Want, Need? not really, we did do a little rationalizing to justify, we have certainly had our fun, and when you consider we live right at Old Faithful, in the midst of Yellowstone, any bump in fun is epic.

Chairs, well, they certainly look nice, and I want them, but afraid I am leaning on the need side of this one, because I need tires on both the westy and the Honda. Fortunately not on the motorhome!
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[Skip Laubach]

[hans j]

I've also seen these wood folding chairs with fabric backs: http://www.gandermountain.com/modperl/product/deta...3237363932
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[tam_shops]

$60-100+ for a chair you take camping? They look like GREAT chairs and I love how small they fold, would certainly love something that fits somewhere other than under my bench. Once I put something in the bench, it stays there until I take the car seats out for camping, my new window scraping brush accidentally got put in there last winter. I bought another at the Dollar store b/c it was too much work to get out!

Seriously, those that have these spendy chairs, do you lock these great chairs up in the Vanagon when you leave your camp site, not leave the campsite or camp where no one is around to take things? I put my camp stove inside the Vanagon when we leave the site for a long time, so the idea of leaving even more valuable and easy to take chairs out, wouldn't occur to me. Nothing has ever gone missing, but I'd like to keep it that way!

And, those of you with kids, do the kids break them?


Ooooh, now you've explained why my pink $15 Target chair has lasted for 9 years now, I don't sit in it enough!

tam

[ThankYouJerry]

Well, I guess either I'm lucky, camp in the right areas or both... never had anything stolen so far (and don't lock chairs, etc up when I'm gone either).

As far as chairs go, I need chairs that are light/compact and pull double duty as both campfire/relaxation chairs and more importantly chairs for eating at the roll-out aluminum table. Therefore the GCI folding directors chairs I posted links to earlier fit the bill perfectly for me and my family of four. The cheaper version ($40) are just fine. Haven't tried the $100 version yet.
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[timichango]

We bought them at Mountain Equipment Co-Op up here in Canuckistan, so... automatic lifetime warranty on everything they sell

I'll eventually own a Kermit for van use, but for bike touring this wee chair would take the cake every darn time. Heck, I'm envisioning tossing two of these in the bottom of the stroller while we're wandering around the towns and cities of the west coast over the next few months, and the prospect of being able to just deploy these in a park while Grizzly (our son) naps out for an hour in the reclined stroller seems pretty civilized—and there's no way we'd be able to tote the bazooka-style wallyworld chairs around like that.

It's miniscule when packed up, but after 2 days of lounging in it, I can unequivocally say that it's darned comfy despite my fat bastardness.

I looked at the Alite Mantis as well, but the weight limit was 70lbs lower (!!!), and it wasn't cheaper enough to run that risk. Helinox was comfier too, by a broad margin.

[timichango]

[kamzcab86]

[TequilaSunSet]

I need fat-ass chairs... wide load... hence my Cabela's big boy chair. love it!
http://www.cabelas.com/catalog/product.jsp?product...BIK-551346
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[timichango]

Aye! That's what me hammock be for

[dobryan]

[Mountain1.8t]

We got these last season and love them...easy up, very compact and light weight, in case you want to bring them on a hike, and quality made. Best yet, lifetime REI guarantee.

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[Love My Westy]

My wife had a similar chair she bought from REI. It was so difficult to put together because the fabric would not stretch enough that we took it back under their lifetime guaranty, which we found out is only for one year now. They let us slide as we had had it for slightly over a year because it was like new because we never really used it.

Now my wife has a similar style chair that is easier to put together. I can't find it right now to tell you the brand name.

On our recent Baja trip, she took her chair to the beach with her while she went snorkeling. When she came back the chair was gone, but she finally found it in 5 feet of water. The wind had blown it off the beach while she was snorkeling. Now she always weights it down when not sitting in it.

As for me, I have a couple of TravelChairs that I carry in my Van. Their not as compact, but then again, we're not sitting on the ground either.
We just replaced our old ones that have had heavy use for about 15 years with the new model. 'Hope they last anywhere near as long as the old ones.
http://www.rei.com/product/751136/travelchair-easy-rider-chair

[timichango]

With the helinox one, it seemed like it was going to be a bitch to get the corners over the poles—until I realized that I just needed to bow the pole a bit, like setting up a tent (or stringing an archery bow), rather than reefing on the fabric.

[wcdennis]

[SCM]

[timichango]