Camping 101
If you’re new to camping, you are to be envied. There’s nothing like starting one of the world’s great adventures fresh and full of excitement.
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- Camping 101
- Planning Your Camping Trip
- What Is Your Camping Style?
- A Guide to Recreational Vehicles (RVs)
- Choosing A Tent For Camping
- How to Pick a Sleeping Bag
- Powering Your Campsite
- Choosing a GPS Receiver
- Dress for Success Outdoors
- Camping Stoves and Fires
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Planning Your Camping Trip
Camping should be spontaneous, fun and relaxing. But in order to relax and enjoy that spontaneity, advance planning is a must.
What Is Your Camping Style?
At one time, the only camping options were tent or open air. A hundred years ago, you would have been fortunate to have a canvas tent.
A Guide to Recreational Vehicles (RVs)
Recreational vehicles (RVs) come in a range of sizes. Some are no larger than the camper shells of the 1950s, others are the size of a large bus.
Choosing A Tent For Camping
Unlike previous generations, camping no longer always involves sleeping in a tent. RVs, commercial campgrounds and other options provide an alternative.
How to Pick a Sleeping Bag
Older sleeping bags were little more than a cotton and wool blanket folded over and fitted with a zipper.
Powering Your Campsite
One of the great joys of camping is experiencing the outdoors - fresh air, beautiful scenery, peace and quiet.
Choosing a GPS Receiver
Garmin is the market leader in Global Positioning System receivers, but they’re not the only manufacturer. Magellan, Lowrance and others make good units, too.
Dress for Success Outdoors
Common sense is anyone’s best guide for the first step in how to dress for camping. But there are some specifics that will help inform you how to exercise that common sense.
Camping Stoves and Fires
Not having every comfort of home is part of the camping experience - and a very pleasurable part, as you test your hardiness while enjoying the outdoors.
How To Lighten Your Load When Hauling Camping Gear
The military has a term for moving personal equipment from place to place that backpackers have adopted - humping your gear. It’s apt.
What To Pack
Campers are always faced with a dilemma. Either you bring the entire house or you invariably find that the one thing you need was left at home.
Bugs to Avoid
Camping can be one of the best adventures you’ll find. Fresh air, stunning mountains, spectacular trees and more are all around most campsites.
Basic First Aid in the Outdoors
Many camping areas are far from professional medical facilities. Even when rescuers and paramedics can fly in by helicopter (which they do only in extreme emergencies), it can take hours to locate the victim.
Wildlife to Avoid
Camping can be one of the best adventures you’ll find. Fresh air, stunning mountains, spectacular trees and more are all around most campsites. But humans aren’t the only species to be found among them. And not all the other ones are friendly.
Plants to Avoid
The three most common toxic plants that campers are likely to encounter are poison ivy, poison oak and poison sumac. Any one of these can cause a painful, itchy rash.
Safety Tips for Camping Trips
It sounds harsh and even a little bit silly, but the first rule of camping safety is: don’t do anything dumb.
Weather and the Seasons
One of the great things about camping is the opportunity to get out into the outdoors and enjoy the environment. One of the potential downsides in camping is getting out into the outdoors and enduring it.
Outdoors Etiquette
One of the prime attractions of camping is the opportunity to enjoy peace and quiet. Living in the big city is exciting and there is a never ending parade of things to do and see.
Camping Around the World
There are hundreds of campsites around the U.S. and Canada, and around Europe, Australia and many other parts of the globe.
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