I just went camping and I forgot how fun it was since I haven't gone in the past couple of months.

here are some questions for your mind (you can answer more than one for the questions):

1. Who would you think is the best to go camping with?
2. Top three things you would do on the camp-out.
3. Where you would sleep during the night?
4. What would you bring to eat on the camp out?
5. what type of weather would you camp in?



Here are mine:

1. My best friends or my dad
2. Climbing trees, Ultimate Frisbee, Man Hunt/Capture the Flag
3. Under the stars next to the campfire or not at all
4. Steak and potatoes with cheese
5. Anything but Rainy or super hot

You can also just talk about camping in general if you want to.

1. my girlfriend
2. sex, smores, and some third thing
3. the same tent, preferably the same sleeping bag
4. nothing, real men catch their own food.
5. late August, early September.

1. My dad
2. Explore my surroundings, S'mores, and survival-ie stuff.
3. Nice warm tent.
4. S'mores and ramen.
5. Nice summery, preferably in late june early july.
Lets add another category: Where
6. anywhere near a large body of water.

1. My dad or my friend Doug.
2. Trout fishing, hiking, meditation.
3. Tent
4. Strip steak, bisquetes, and baked potatoes for dinner, Pancakes for breakfast
5.In Boy scouts I've camped in almost all kinds of weather, even -17 (farenhiet)
Granted we had 12 people in a 6 man tent that was lined with straw.

Here in florida it barely got below 60 F. And people were acting like they were going to freeze to death. I wasn't born here so I'm used to temps like 35 F

Dude. I'm used to temperatures starting to hover below ten in the winter. You floridans are wusses.

Hey! I'm an Albuquerquean. I love being one too ^^

I just live in Florida that's all.

You come from albuquerquea?

Yup I always camped there in the snow

I miss the snow

Noob, In Newfields we had -15 with the wind chill making it nearly -40.

Even here the wind chill regularly drops it to -20.

It's fucking cold out there in the winter!

As to Grym's #6 I have to go with West Virginia.

Can't beat Ramen

I disagree, fresh crawdads are so much better than rubber noodles in powder soup.

I wasn't adding in windchill. Especially when you are biking downhilll at 20+ mph at 8am in the morning.

Why the fuck are you riding a bike when it's that cold out? Winter is to be spent under a blanket by the fire with cocoa and a hot redhead.

"GASP" *shun*

The ramen lord will now destroy you! man I'm hungry

School.
And there aren't any hot redheads at my school.

True TLD, but even crawfish can't compare to fresh trout. especially if it in the fire not 15 minutes after its out of the water (we wrap them in foil packs with a touch of butter and a slice of lemon)
Edit: is SG a pastafarian?

Poor Grimy, redheads are always and will always be the best.

@Neo: I don't really like trout, but have you had fresh marlin?

That is true.
And food-wise, the only fish I can stand to eat is canned tuna. I love canned tuna.(It's the mercury that gives it the flavor)

I used to go deep-sea fishing. I've caught mahi, seabass, and mackerel, also been on the same boat as a guy who caught a record-breaking marlin for that company.

Afrid not TLD, Iowa is regrettably landlocked.

No. I'm not a member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

I'm a simple LDS saint and a Boyscout.

Shouldn't stop you from making a run to Cali or Florida for some deep-sea fishing.

Doesn't LDS stand for Latter Day Saints? So why would you say 'Latter Day Saints Saint.'

I would if I could afford the time off.

I'm a saint of the Latter-Day Saints.

we are getting off topic:
My scoutmaster wants my troop to go camping every month. That doesn't leave any extra time in my week ends.

You going to go to Philmont, SG?

I'm going to San Diego sometime soon, I wonder If the fishing's any good...

No

But I'm all for it.

I never did make to Philmont, but I really wish I had. ( Though I was warned not to eat the pemican bars, there like brick bat.)

I'm opposed to the idea of camping.

We go through thousands of years of evolution in our culture and technology. People die to protect the idea of cities. All our human achievements culminate to the glory we have at our fingertips and you throw it all in their faces to sleep outside.

It makes me sick to my ass.

judging from that description, taking something someone's done and throwing it back into their face with a laugh sounds like something you'd enjoy.

He just doesn't like sunlight.

Bah. Get into a nice thick woods and there won't be any sunlight.

You know how I hate trees.

I've been very clear on that.

Thus, hating trees and sunlight, I see the folly in your disgraceful behaviour.

Really? I've never heard you say that.

Oh, I hate them.

They're up to something.

Like Durkon?

No, but the dwarf brings up a good point.

How many of you consider the damage they do to dwarven halls? Of course not. You're all too busy camping to think about anyone else.

Wouldn't dwarves live in mountains? And aren't trees fairly sparse in higher elevation mountains?
The silly dwarves should line their halls with stone.

Did you just mention they're in a mountain? They're not building the shit, they're cutting rooms out of it. They remove stone, they don't put it in.

And I lived up a mountain covered in trees for about three years - making it my longest residence by far.

It's only the good ones that don't have any trees.

Actually, those two statements were almost completely unrelated. Epiphany style.

1. Family and close friends
2. radio (gotta listen to the classic rock!), dogs, and booze (or soda works too I guess)
3. If the weather is warm/clear enough, outside under the stars.
4. Steak for dinner, and pancake mix for breakfast. Best meals I've ever had were when I was camping.
5. Preferably warm weather, around June or July. August is good, too, if we camp near a river. But I'm not too picky, I've been known to go camping in the rainy weather of April and May.
6. I love camping pretty much anywhere in Washington, but I prefer the western side of the Cascades, since there's more nice wooded areas. Love the piney-fresh smell.

As for the fresh fish debate, fresh halibut is to die for. I went camping in Uculet Canada with my uncle and aunt, and we went fishing. We mostly caught rock fish, but my uncle caught the biggest halibut I've seen (which I haven't seen that many still intact and not on my dinner plate). Cooked it up that night, it was heavenly.

Oh hey. My Dad's dad had a cottage up around there that he would take my dads family too. /coincidence.

ARE YOU STALKING ME!!

I like to capture any stalkers and torture them n_n Deep in the woods. Where no on can hear them scream. n_n

See? Trees are implicit in the murder of who knows how many stalkers?

They're dodgy, I tells ya.

Not stalking you. And also, the cottage was actually at the puget sound. >.>

Ah, Puget Sound is really pretty. Not such a big fan of PSE though... stupid electricity bills >.>

Surprised nobody has said this yet, but......

It's a legitimate strategy.


Having been in the field way too many times..... camping suxors. There are bugs. And it seems that no matter what season it is, and what the weather people have stated, there is *ALWAYS* rain. Bugs and rain make camping miserable. Plus, depending on how long you stay out away from civilization, when you finally come back, the aroma of nasty-ass is everywhere, in your hair, in your clothes, on your skin, on the people who stand way too close to you, on your gear...... EVERYWHERE!

I get used to it. Florida in wintertime is about the best time to camp. Most flying bugs are gone. Ants are a big problem though. But you can always torch 'em And showers are for getting rid of the smell. I also leave all my gear outside of my house when I get back. 3 days later the smell is almost all gone.