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Community => Watto's Junk Yard => Topic started by: JesseVader08 on June 26, 2008, 01:57 AM
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Anyone else have plans for camping this summer? My wife and I just bought a tent trailer today, which should be a hoot since I only ever tented when I was a kid. There are a ton of campgrounds around here so we can easily get in a few weekends worth, maybe more. I can't wait!
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I know a couple of you guys are into camping, but I honestly can't say I have much desire to ever do that, haha... I've camped when I was younger, never with my family though (always with a friend's family), and I hated it.
To me, roughing it means no room service... Hell, even at C3 I had to have a certain quality of life outside the con to enjoy myself. It wasn't con 24/7 there, so I was really aiming for the nightlife, the hotel's quality, etc.
Though I will say I've stayed at some ****** hotels and I'm usually content as long as they're remotely clean and there's good water pressure. Gotta have that.
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We go camping every Memorial Day. Before we had the kids, we would go to a place North of Green Bay that offered rafting as one of the activities. We used to do the tent, sleepingbags, cooking on the fire, the whole nine yards. The last four years, we've been pretty low-key and have gone to places that have cabins so that the kids don't have to hike half way across the campground to go to the bathroom. I think once the boys get a little older, we'll end up getting a camper and taking them on actual camping trips. Some of my best memories as a kid involve going all sorts of places with my family like to Yellowstone or going on fishing trips down to Kentucky.
Have fun Jesse! Post pictures of your first trip!
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Haven't camped in years and it used to be a yearly activity. Lots of fun. Though, it's really a lot different camping here in CA than it was in PA. In PA, you just get fire wood from anywhere, in CA, you have to bring it.
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My entire family just recently got back from Yellowstone which was our major planned trip for the summer. We ended up staying in a bunk house in Idaho however instead of camping out of a tent since most of my family wouldn't of gone for the roughing part of that.
The last time I actually went camping in a tent I ended up with a close encounter of some sort of wildlife, possible a bear. Woke up in the middle of the night because of an animal making noise outside my tent and then pressing up against my tent. When I got up in the morning me and my brother-in-law walked outside the tent and saw paw marks around the camp site.
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I'm with Jesse James...
My idea of roughing it is No Cable at the Holiday Inn.
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In PA, you just get fire wood from anywhere, in CA, you have to bring it.
At this point I'd think anyone seeing you even pluck a match from a pack out there would shoot you for considering it.
Where I live we're allowed to burn trash and things, so fires are no big deal... The conditions sometimes get dryer and they want you NOT to do that, obviously, but generally it's not a big deal. Further towards the city you go though, then there's ordinances against it. Right in town actually you're not allowed to, but I'm "in the country" so to speak. You're allowed to burn for recreation down near my gf's place but not trash and things.
And of course no burning stuff you shouldn't like plastic, construction materials, tires, etc. That should go without saying, but people still do it routinely.
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I houseboat!
My grandparents have owned a houseboat since I was in 4th grade. Every summer We go out for about 2 weeks, you got the sun the water, and the boating. That's my kind of camping ;D
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My family went camping quite a bit when I was a kid. We once took our trailer across the country...very fun trip. Of course, by "camping" my parents had a trailer with just about every amenity in it....and my brother and I slept in a tent!
Still...lots of fun.
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My wife has been bugging me up the ying yang to buy a pop up camper the last few months. I am a little reluctant due to the economy and how much we'd actually use it. Before the boys we would go tenting at least 4-5 times a year. Back in Y2K we took a 2 week trip out west and camped/1 star hoteled it for almost the entire way. So, we compromised and went tenting a few weekends ago, it was fun and the boys had fun but we stayed at a campground with a waterpark and 3 playgrounds. I'd rather go to the woods and stay in nature and fish and hike kind of deal. I think they are too young for that yet
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A new camping season is upon us - it's "May Long Weekend" (Victoria Day) in Canada, which is typically when a lot of people gear up for summer activities. We went camping for 2 nights with our tent trailer and had a blast. For the first time we camped with another family, which was pretty cool since their 3 kids play very well with our 2 kids. We had great weather to enjoy our hiking and campfires, so it was definitely a success. We hope to get out a number of times this summer.
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Glad ya got out Jesse. Camping is a lot of fun & on our long weekend in my neck of the woods, you ethier get rained on or wake up to a foot of snow. ::) ;D
Yep, warm during the day with the odd showers & bloody wind, flurries too. Stupid prairies! >:(
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This weekend I took the boys camping for the night. This was the first time the two year old got to sleep in a tent. He did great! He went right to sleep. We went to a nearby scout reservation with a church group. They had fun riding bikes, playing football and baseball, daming up a stream and catching frogs. The two year old ate so many snowcones that he was dyed orange by the end of it.
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Uncle Sam had me do enough camping. Now, bring an RV and that's about as "camping happy" as I can get.
I still hunt like nobody's business though.
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This was the first time the two year old got to sleep in a tent. He did great! He went right to sleep.
It's amazing how well they sleep after a day of fresh air. 8)
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So how many of you guys take firewood from home with you when you go camping?
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Screw that. Try hiking and canoeing for a week through lake and mountain country for a week. To me, that's camping. You can only bring the clothes on your back and one change of clothes. Every other cubic inch of space is devoted to sleeping bags, cooking gear, freeze dried food, tents and other camp supplies. The fun part is usually canoeing across a sizable lake. But then portaging from one lake to the other...it's even more fun! Because you get to walk the same distance 3 times! Once to carry your pack. Then walk back to the canoe. And then portage the canoe. Oh...and then there's the "bear bag". You know, the bag you have to hang up in the air about 10 - 15 feet high with your food and toiletries to keep it all from scavenging "critters". The ones who are really big and could eat...you.
I've done the driving up to a campsite thing. It's nice, but it's basically just sleeping outside. If it really starts pouring most people get out of their tents and sleep in their cars.
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So how many of you guys take firewood from home with you when you go camping?
We've usually got too much stuff packed to have room for wood, and I don't have any at home anyway (someday I'll have a wood fireplace like we did as a kid).
Screw that. Try hiking and canoeing for a week through lake and mountain country for a week...
Not gonna happen anytime soon with a 7 year old and 2 year old.
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It wasn't actually camping, but my wife and I rented a cabin last week in the Great Smoky Mountains and invited my parents and my in-laws to join us and the kids. It was absolutely beautiful there. The scenery was phenomenal and we had an awesome time hiking. But the part that I don't think any of us were prepared for were the black bears that roam around.
On the third day we were there, a relatively young bear managed to walk around the property the cabin was on and then inspected our vehicles before moving on. He must have come back while we were sleeping, because the next morning we awoke to find my parent's car was broken into and there were paw prints all over the inside of their car. They forgot to lock their car the night before and a bear got in the driver's side door and took a look around the car before finding a bag of Jolly Ranchers. He helped himself to the entire bag before trying to get into both my minivan and my in-law's car. Thankfully we had both locked our doors.
The next afternoon, we are assuming the same bear decided to come back for seconds during the evening hours. He roamed right onto the deck of the cabin and walked around while we were all sitting inside. He had a look around and when he realized that there wasn't anything to eat up on the deck, he went down to the cars again and tried getting into them all. Thankfully this time they were all locked. The impressive part was that he went to every door and tried to open every one before moving on. He was definitely 'smarter than the average bear!'
We just arrived home an hour or so ago, so I haven't had a chance to download pictures. Once I do, I'll definitely post the ones of him walking around on the deck and trying to get into the cars.
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I've done a lot of camping in the past two years. 3 days in minus 17 degree weather, last winter, 0 degree weather this winter too. Did some camping in a ghost town in Tahawus NY thats being rezoned as a historical landmark (fell into the Hudson river and almost died there, it was great) and have done many stints into the Adirondacks for weekend trips. I just came from a very soft "camping" trip to my friends cabin this weekend, to do some landscaping and property cleanup.
I find it very therapeutic being out in the woods for any amount of time!
Kevin
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So how many of you guys take firewood from home with you when you go camping?
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So how many of you guys take firewood from home with you when you go camping?
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Clever fellow.
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We just arrived home an hour or so ago, so I haven't had a chance to download pictures. Once I do, I'll definitely post the ones of him walking around on the deck and trying to get into the cars.
I've been waiting for my wife to burn her pictures to a CD so I could share them here, but if I continue to wait it will be next Memorial Day before I get them. In the mean time, thought I'd share a few with you...
In the backyard of the cabin:
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/iamsith22/DSCN2952.jpg)
Walking around my parent's car the day before the break-in:
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/iamsith22/DSCN2965.jpg)
Evidence of the attempted break-in of our van:
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/iamsith22/DSCN2979.jpg)
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That's pretty scary - I am Sith. Haven't visited the cabin in awhile, but my golden lab makes the same mess though around all of our car/truck door handles on a daily basis.
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I'm headed out for a 3 day soft camping trip at Thompsons Lake, NY. Should be a fun time even with the impending threat of rain. This will be the softest camping trip I've been on since I was likely 13 or 14, so I'm surprisingly ok with the fact that I'm living out of a cooler for food all weekend.
Cheers!
Kevin
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Good luck Kevin. A couple years ago I was at one of the parking areas in Thatcher park and watched a thunderstorm over Rotterdam/Schenectady. Very cool because you are at the same height as the clouds.
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Where can I order one?
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My wife has been bugging me up the ying yang to buy a pop up camper the last few months. I am a little reluctant due to the economy and how much we'd actually use it. Before the boys we would go tenting at least 4-5 times a year. Back in Y2K we took a 2 week trip out west and camped/1 star hoteled it for almost the entire way. So, we compromised and went tenting a few weekends ago, it was fun and the boys had fun but we stayed at a campground with a waterpark and 3 playgrounds. I'd rather go to the woods and stay in nature and fish and hike kind of deal. I think they are too young for that yet
Guess who won the battle of the pop up camper?
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We just got it last week. It is nice and it rained on Sunday...we stayed dry. :)
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Getting ready for my third camping trip this summer in a couple weeks... never thought I'd be doing this so many times in one year. Fortunately you don't see too many bears in my neck of the woods... lots of coolers full of beer though. ;)