Do you have any good tips for a camping trip?
Posted: July 14th, 2010 | Author: Mitch | Filed under: Camping Tips | Tags: camping, whole lot | 8 Comments »This summer I am going with my family on a camping trip. We do not know a whole lot about camping so I was wondering if you had any advice about things we should know or be aware of. Thanks!
okay, mmm m and taytay are obviously stupid, ignore those answers. Besides the very good advise about bug spray, and assuming your family doesn’t pick a bear-infested campsite, & besides the essentials like sleeping gear, spare clothing, and food, you want to remember: deck of cards, family’s favorite board game (in case of stuck in a tent due to rain), hotdogs, marshmallows, (just isn’t camping without those), favorite non-melty candy, pocket knife (you find all kinds of uses for this when you’re camping), field binoculars for watching the cool wildlife (not bears) you will get to enjoy, harmonica for the campfire if you can play it, frisbee, nerf or regular football to throw around, and a very flexible attitude. Just relax and enjoy. Remember your family may never again have the chance to enjoy the kind of time camping together gives you. Have a great time, remember why you love each other, and leave the stress for the workweek. enjoy!
listen to the guy talking about bears cause they will hosed my stuff up. one time we were having a retreat and like 15 of those damn things came out dressed in full military uniform and just opened fire on us. thankfully we had the position fortified and still had a half-track operating. you ever see two Flak 88′s hit a bear? like throwing pudding at the damn wall. too bad we lost like half our squad cause one of the sniper bears blew up our flame engineer.
oh well we still had one of the shermans and around 2 pershings so things worked out well in the end. by the way camping usually ends in being stalked by a killer.
Also… if you are tent camping at a drive up campsite:
Make sure you store all of your food items in the car while you are away and at night while you are sleeping. Don’t leave anything perisable around the campsite or in your tent. Critters will love you if you do… trust me.
Be considerate of your neighbors. Don’t play your music too loud, and keep your conversation within your "party". I mean.. have fun, but don’t be too crazy w/ noise… especially late at night.
Always makes sure your campfire is put out before you bed down for the night.
Leave your campsite in as good as, if not better condition than you arrived.
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Also, just make sure you pack extra t-shirts and socks… things that may get wet and you will need a change of… especially if you won’t have a facility to shower. You will want a nice clean t-shirt to put on at the end of the day if you’ve been hiking all day.
Have a blast!! Just relax, toast some marshmallows and enjoy yourself!!
I’m going on a camping trip this weekend, myself and am so excited about it.
the best part of camping is being in the outdoors with no worries. Leave the cell phones and other devises for emergencies only. Keep everything simple you will enjoy so much more that way. Don’t forget the bug spray. watch out for critters of all kinds. If you hike take along some basic survival items just in case you get lost. Hope you have a great time.
Ok that guy that was saying stuff about bears, don’t really listen to him. Be wary of bears and put your food away if you leave camp but most of the time bears will leave you alone unless you mess with their young. If you use common sense, then your camping trip should be a blast.
Depending on the type of camping you’re doing as well as the location will determine many things. Basic needs include good insect repellent, matches or a lighter, a good knife, camp saw, candle(s), rain gear, flashlight. Again, if you are tent camping, your needs will be different than trailer camping but, the things I mentioned are fundamental.
watch out for f*cking bears man. they’ll tear you up. Ive seen a bear kill a family family of seven. there wernt none left of that family. Bears’ll attack you just cause. Stay the f*ck away from bears. Ive seen a bear in a fight with 4 other bears, and then all the bears stopped fighting each other and then stop fighting to kill a small child, then have a blood orgy over the kids corpse. Stay away from bears man!
I can assure you the guy who talks like Charlie Manson wouldn’t know a bear if one came up and bit him on the pecker. There are plenty of places to camp where bears of any kind don’t even exist. I came upon a black bear once while backpacking in a National Park in Washington State and it was the highlight of the whole two month trip through the National Park system i was then in the midst of. I just made shouted like they say you should, waved my arms about, forgot NOT to look directly in its eyes (anyway, i’m still here to talk about it) and the bear just ambled off the trail he and I were having a Mexican standoff on and continued minding its own business foraging for berries without further incident. The whole experience made my day…only time I ever actually saw a bear that close up.
If you do happen to be in bear country, you can "bear bag" your food (put it in a bag, tie a long rope to the end of it and suspend it from a sturdy tree branch towards the end of the branch where it’s weakest and the bear would break the branch if he climbed the tree and walked out on it.)
Just tie a rock or something to the free end of the rope, chuck it over the branch, grab the free end again when it comes back down to you on the other side, and tie it off on the tree trunk. Or use a bear canister like you can rent in National Parks, or buy one and bury it some distance from your campsite.
Some places where bears are often found have free storage lockers specifically for storing food so bears can’t get it. Don’t keep food in your tent. Or your car. A bear can rip off a car door like a pull tab on a soda can if it detects the aroma of a tasty tidbit within. These guys have an unbelievable sense of smell and will eat almost anything that’s half way edible.
Cook and eat food a bit of a distance from your tent. Wear certain clothes just for cooking and keep them away from your tent. I have heard that women having their periods can attract bears, but have no personal experience with this being a guy, so check it out independently, i’m not a hundred percent on that one.
Of course, if you’re not camping in bear country none of this stuff even applies. Just enjoy your camping, wherever you decide to do it. It’s not as hard as you might think once you actually. It can be fairly addicting, and you might not want to go back to "civilization" afterwards, if you’re like some people.
Plenty of info on the Internet about how to go about it. The rest is just following the learning curve. The more you do it, the better you’ll get at it. A lot of it is pretty intuitive and just using common sense.