Wet socks, wet shoes. Soaked jeans, damp shirt. There's no place to sit that won't give you a wet rear and crashing through the bushes to find a place of privacy leaves you drenched. Camping in the rain means sleeping in a dampish sleeping bag with cold sticky-wet feet and eating soggy bread. However, camping in the rain also means hot steamy coffee, an exquisite snapping fire and the comforting patter of rain on a tent roof.
Some rains are hard, cold and miserable, chilling drops piercing a body right to the bone.
Others are warm and delightful, like droplets of liquid sunshine floating softly from the heavens to soothe and caress. A good rain is like a good cry. It cleanses the soul of the earth. It summons forth the heady smells of wet sod and shower-washed pavement. City lights mirrored in a puddled street are a beautiful sight.