Poll: Camping
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I'm not an outdoors kind of person and my only experience with any kind of "camping" is from my military service. Didn't like it, although that might have had something to do with being ordered to do it. (Luckily I got to be a clerk so I didn't have to that much outdoors stuff.)
I don't really see the appeal of camping. Summer cottage is about as far as I'm willing to go.
I don't really see the appeal of camping. Summer cottage is about as far as I'm willing to go.
Ah camping...I do love electronic stimulation, and these days I barely walk to the store without also listening to an audiobook, but some perfect storm of camping variables lets me be capable of just relaxing in front of a campfire for hours. The food is delicious, even better for being outside, and while you don't really notice the griminess during, the shower when you get back is heaven. I wish I were camping now.
The only time I really go camping in the great outdoors is at our anime festival in Milton Keynes. It's not a bad way to spend the summer, though I find it difficult to sleep outdoors especially if during a hot and humid summer time.
Though I do find that people's idea of roughing it depends on person to person which I always find intriguing. I envy and admire those who can really get out there into the wilderness, miles away from a main road and not come back for days or something to that effect
Though I do find that people's idea of roughing it depends on person to person which I always find intriguing. I envy and admire those who can really get out there into the wilderness, miles away from a main road and not come back for days or something to that effect
I went camping a few times in Boy Scouts years and years ago, but I haven't been since. I'd like to do it sometime just for fun, because anything Boy Scout related was NOT fun for me in the slightest. Neither is being put in a tent with a person who snores louder than a congested hippo, or only being able to eat sausage for breakfast. (I. Hate. Sausage)
I would just love to able to take a relaxing camping trip. No scheduled activities, no Boy Scout crap, no religious themes tying everything together, (All of my Scout troop went to the same church) just a tent, a fire, and some nearby woods to walk in.
I would just love to able to take a relaxing camping trip. No scheduled activities, no Boy Scout crap, no religious themes tying everything together, (All of my Scout troop went to the same church) just a tent, a fire, and some nearby woods to walk in.
I enjoy going on hiking and walking trips with friends, mostly because I get to show off my astounding ability to read a map (only one other person I know can really read a map... and that's my father) and cooking stuff on a bonfire never gets old.
Camping with family though... well while it's not the very worst thing in the world, I've never really enjoyed it. Maybe it's just my family, but everything is planned and carefully executed: we go to a campsite, set up the tent at noon, peg everything down, use pre-made fire pits for cooking... it's essentially living at home with little more than a pallet swap; the oven is a fire, the food's a little burnt, and your bed's a sleeping bag. Actually spending time out away from society, that's where the fun's at.
Camping with family though... well while it's not the very worst thing in the world, I've never really enjoyed it. Maybe it's just my family, but everything is planned and carefully executed: we go to a campsite, set up the tent at noon, peg everything down, use pre-made fire pits for cooking... it's essentially living at home with little more than a pallet swap; the oven is a fire, the food's a little burnt, and your bed's a sleeping bag. Actually spending time out away from society, that's where the fun's at.
i LOVE camping. The best of course is camping at a music festival. Oh the stories i could tell you from the last 10 years of festivalcamps...and i am sure i cant remember as many.
Another thing i love are the camps we do every summer for a few very other week we years now. Some years every other week we had a gathering of a part of the local goth scene (not big ones, usually about 30 people came) and camped at a lakeside, barbecued and partied 2 days straight.
When it comes to the "lets spend a week in the wilds" camping. WEll i did that for 2 weeks with the theatre to write, practice and perform a play outdoors. It was an interesting scenery and a great experience. Inmids a huge forest in northern germany, between a wildly overgrown ruin of a medieval fort and antient germanic stonetombs.
Another thing i love are the camps we do every summer for a few very other week we years now. Some years every other week we had a gathering of a part of the local goth scene (not big ones, usually about 30 people came) and camped at a lakeside, barbecued and partied 2 days straight.
When it comes to the "lets spend a week in the wilds" camping. WEll i did that for 2 weeks with the theatre to write, practice and perform a play outdoors. It was an interesting scenery and a great experience. Inmids a huge forest in northern germany, between a wildly overgrown ruin of a medieval fort and antient germanic stonetombs.
I'm in Boy Scouts as well but in all my years of camping I've sadly never gotten much of a chance to go on any 50-milers. I had to skip out on Philmont and a week-long Lost Coast trip this year to finish my Eagle Scout proposal. I've had some really bad trips too. We had two training hikes up at Big Basin to prepare for Half Dome (which never happened because the Scoutmaster flaked on us). Between the two trips here's what hapened: Fallen trees and other debris held us up for a few hours because they closed the trails we needed, we lost most of our dinner and breakfast because the Scoutmaster's pot handle wasn't the right kind, a raccoon kept us up until 12:30, we got lost, and one scout sprained both of his ankles.
i can have fun, i usually dont have fun when going with family as it just ends up being stressful, but the few times i have done it with friends its been fair fun, i quite the survivalist when i need to be, shocked alot of people ha.
It depends.
-If by camping, you're referring to taking an RV to a spot in some cleared out forest right next to a lake and then cooking steaks and watching TV inside the camper...then no, I don't like camping. That's more like...simulated trailer park living.
-If by camping, you're referring to a much more DIY experience, then I'm with you. I actually like to do my homework on some shelter-building techniques and practice them for a week or two before going out to some more secluded area with some friends. Then we rough it. Bringing some kayaks makes it even better.
Of course...I have kind of a Bear Grylls mancrush (I named my dog after him), so...I'm biased. Though I'm not even a hundredth that extreme. I don't necessarily want to hunt my own food (though that is awesome when you pull it off), I just want to feel independent of technology and society for a few days.
-If by camping, you're referring to taking an RV to a spot in some cleared out forest right next to a lake and then cooking steaks and watching TV inside the camper...then no, I don't like camping. That's more like...simulated trailer park living.
-If by camping, you're referring to a much more DIY experience, then I'm with you. I actually like to do my homework on some shelter-building techniques and practice them for a week or two before going out to some more secluded area with some friends. Then we rough it. Bringing some kayaks makes it even better.
Of course...I have kind of a Bear Grylls mancrush (I named my dog after him), so...I'm biased. Though I'm not even a hundredth that extreme. I don't necessarily want to hunt my own food (though that is awesome when you pull it off), I just want to feel independent of technology and society for a few days.
Dammit. I wanted this to be an FPS related post so I could make a tent joke. And it turns out it's a tent post, and making an FPS joke would make it look like I hadn't read the OP...
Anyway, not something I've done much, but I'm given to understand it's much more fun if you don't actually sleep, and spend the vast majority of the time drinking instead.
Anyway, not something I've done much, but I'm given to understand it's much more fun if you don't actually sleep, and spend the vast majority of the time drinking instead.
I just went last weekend and hated it. Getting shitty sleep, smelling like shit, and eating shit just isn't for me so I'll pass on camping 9 times out of 10.
First Person Shooter camping is what he's saying most people will think the thread is about if they don't read.ravensheart18 said:
Camping is s a legitimate strategy!
