So... why the hell do people camp?

[zerepdivad]

Obviously i myself have no desire to ever go camping...

[Bubba1]

wow, Jesda, I would have guessed you were a boy scout who got booted out for eating a Brownie....

I used to camp annually with my cousins growing up. I was along more as a baby sitter. My aunt/uncle had anold fashioned pop up camper and my family had an old fashioned 8 person tent. (still have that old tent in my garage. Very well made). I loved camping for a few reasons. Getting a little closer to nature, away from the city. You can't beat looking at a star filled sky with clean air after living beside a city full of pollution, honking horns, sirens, and fart canned muffler subcompact cars. No music, no tv, just nature and conversation. The activities were fun, including building a fire out of the wood you find and toasting marshmallows, swimming in a nearby lake, telling fun stories.

Of course that many years ago. Now in the age of fancy luxury filled campers, the experience of camping with a tent seems old fashioned. I wouldn't mind digging out the tent again, but after marrying girl whose idea of "roughing it" is no room service or valet parking, I guess my camping days are behind me. I taught my son how to set up the big tent in case he gets ambitious some day.

[Jesda]

Looks like our next NICO meet will be in the woods. I'm bringing a chainsaw and a case of Coors.

[numbnuts240]

I'm bringing a chainsaw and a case of Coors.

i'll bring my machete.

[Chiquitita]

I'm not American and I love camping...I started camping when I was little in Peru, but the differences of camping here and there are huge! Here you have all this things that make it so much easier...the experience is good though. You get to hang up with friends and family and you reconnect with nature. Is one of those times kids can hate or love but will remember forever.

[Mr1der]

to get away.

gotta get back the roots sometimes.

me and a buddy have the notion to do it hardcore style and go out with bare amount of food and maybe sleeping bags and see how we do.

there's actually people that will fly you out into parks via helicopter and drop your a** off and pick you up a few days later at a certain point.

[mattblancarte]

Best camping trip I ever went on was a ten-day backpacking trip at Philmont Ranch in New Mexico. We covered something like 60-70 miles, scaled a mountain, shot guns, raced burrows (mules), panned for gold, and more. Good times.

[Jesda]

I think its time for someone to post camping pics

[s0m3th1ngAZ]

Most of my fondest memories have been from the scouts and backpacking. I'm not talking about that p**** stuff with RV's and tents in numbered spaces. I'm talking carrying everything you need for several days on your back up 2,000 feet. There is NOTHING like the tranquility of having an entire lake to yourselves on top of a mountain. Or being the only people within a 50-mile radius.

I can say that about a lot of places I've backpacked to...but my all time favorite experience was spending 3 days on top of Mount Jefferson with my best friend at the time. The sense of accomplishment of carrying 1/3 your body weight 6 miles up 2,000 feet (Wearing the wrong socks spoiled that a bit) is a good feeling indeed. Once we reached our destination there was nobody around for miles. Just us, 7 glacier-made lakes, the sky, an ounce of pot and a half ounce of shrooms. Oh yeah...the incredibly powerful trip in that place was indescribable. It probably wasn't the brightest idea to take hallucinogens in that environment...but it was worth it. To this day, 5 years later, I still have dreams where I am flying low over that glacier-cut basin with this powerful sense of well-being and warmth.

My family also went on a lot of road-trips with other families where all we'd stay at were road-side campsites to save money. That is a different experience in itself...

[danield319]

this is probably TMI but I love camping, I had sex the first time camping with a ex gf years ago

but mosquitoes suck. literary

[numbnuts240]

Best camping trip I ever went on was a ten-day backpacking trip at Philmont Ranch in New Mexico. We covered something like 60-70 miles, scaled a mountain, shot guns, raced burrows (mules), panned for gold, and more. Good times.

you went, too? right on brotha

i actually just found all my philmont patches and scenery pics that i took.

[wingFeather]

I used to love camping at the beach when I was a teen still living at home... bonfires, drinking late into the night, no parents around 8-)

[Mr1der]

I think its time for someone to post camping pics

I think you just wanna see me pitch my tent.

[Bubba1]

because theres no houses in the infield of the race tracks?

WIN.

[raremotive]

Looks like our next NICO meet will be in the woods. I'm bringing a chainsaw and a case of Coors.

Sweet, time and date and I'll mark the calender and check tally the equipment.