If you love camping, raise your hand!

[Boroda]

Originally posted by Sandman_SBM
Anything that doesn't include any of the following is okay by me:

Cabins
RV's
Toilets
Faucets
Beer
Canned foods of any kind
Propane


In other words... it must be a minimum of 10 miles walk and you must carry everything you need on your back. Fishing is preferable but not necessarily a requirement.

Beer is too heavy to carry it in a backpack in decent quantities So we prefer pure spirit.

Canned food is nice, but too heavy if you go for more then one week. Modern sublimated food is light but tasteless.

Propane is nice, much better then "primus" gasoline stove, at least it doesn't explode when  you are cooking in a tent, and you can smoke without worries about the gasoline canisters.

As for me - the biggest problem is to get far enough from people with radios and cars.

[Dowding]

Probably Crantock, Cornwall shortly after graduating in 2000 with my uni friends. Had some great beach parties. Haven't seen some of those people in ages.

[TPIguy]

I'd love to go camping but I don't know anyone else hardcore enough to go. When I mention "camping" people start talking about renting cabins, towing popup trailers etc... Nobody wants to go someplace where there are no utilities.

About the closest thing to camping I can get is an afternoon out 4wheeling in the jeep. And even thats extremely rare.

[Sandman]

Originally posted by midnight Target
Actually my favorite was a 4 day hike that included attaining the 9 highest peaks in Southern California. Before you laugh Oh geographically wanting ones... these peaks ranged from 11,500ft to 10,700ft.

Gotta love the Sierra Nevada...

[Horn]

Originally posted by Boroda
Propane is nice, much better then "primus" gasoline stove, at least it doesn't explode when  you are cooking in a tent, and you can smoke without worries about the gasoline canisters.

Butane is preferable as it does not need the high pressure (read heavy) cylinder that propane does; however, butane is bad news for winter camping...

h

[loser]

"The shack" in the winter.

About the same size as the cabin in SOB's picture without the lean-to. It is about a 3 to 6 mile walk depending on how snowed in the road that runs near the cabin is and if the ice on the lake is thick enough to walk on.

It was built on Provincial park land in the early seventies but hasnt been taken care of in at least ten years.  When i first started going there it was just an open room with a bench and a wood burning stove. A friend of mine and I built two 4 by 8 bunks to make it more "liveable.

They havent trucked wood in to the cabin during the summer for many years and we burned all the surplus about 4 years ago.  It is super illegal to cut down trees in a provincial park, but  fortunatley a chain saw sounds exactly like an ice auger

[midnight Target]

Originally posted by Sandman_SBM
Gotta love the Sierra Nevada...

San Bernardino Range

Mt. San Gorgonio - 11,500+

[Boroda]

Originally posted by Horn
Butane is preferable as it does not need the high pressure (read heavy) cylinder that propane does; however, butane is bad news for winter camping...

h

This cans are labeled "natural gas" here, so it must be butane, as you said.

It's unbelievable how the equipment progressed here in the last 15 years. And it's hard to imagine how people went hiking back in the 60s, with cotton tents and cottonwool sleeping bags... I have never carried more then 40-45kg of starting weight, and at that times people could have 70kg...

[capt. apathy]

haven't been able to go this year (been laid-up all summer, no way I could survive a night sleeping on the ground this year)

but we have a sweet spot (exact location is a family secret) up on the lolo pass (between lost lake and zig-zag).

I usually manage 4 or 5 trips a year anywhere from 3 to 7 days each.


here's a pic from a few hundred yards from our site

[Ripsnort]

We have a 18' trailer I tow with my truck. The kids (4 and 7) get the tent (they prefer the tent) and Mom and Dad get to try to rock the trailer off the stabilizing jacks.

[Dega]

The best places to go camping?

Lost Lake, CO. (15,000 ft up - Prepare to hike or 4X4)
Jackson Hole, WY. (Again, hiking required)
Grand Canyon, AZ (Hiking or Boat)
Woods Canyon Lake, AZ (4X4 and Hiking required)
The Bradshaw Mountains, AZ (4X4 and hiking and this is where I go to pan for gold)
The Verde Hot Springs, AZ South of the Childs power station (4X4 and hiking both required, clothing optional)

[Leslie]

My favorite camping trip was on Petit Bois Island, just west of Dauphin Island, for four nights and 5 days.  We consumed 14 cases of beer, 1 gallon of Burgundy wine, and didn't lack for anything.  It was paradise, as we ate blue crabs by the dozens, and ate Skipjack fish too...only thing we could catch from the boat trolling, but they were 3' long and big and good eating.  Skipjack is good fish, good white meat, but lots of little bones, and I guess that's why folks don't eat them.  

I stepped on a broken beer bottle one morning near the bonfire after I just woke up.  Danced around and then stepped on a hot coal with my other foot.  Had to keep my foot on ice for a whole day, but we were so medicated, I got through it, and could walk on it after about 12 hours.





Les

[Dune]

Spend several weekends a year camping and hunting.  From the Mogollon Rim to the deserts around Yuma.





One of the best was hiking to the bottom of the Grand Canyon.  Damn that was a fun trip.

[Rude]

I enjoy camping....at Holidomes.

[Tarmac]

Algonquin Provincial Park, about 2 hours north of Toronto.  Most beautiful place I've ever been.  4 days in a canoe, with nothing but what you've carried in with you.  

Normal camping is fun, but it ain't real camping unless you have nothing but what you brought with you.