I grew up camping my whole childhood and teens…now I just hate the heat, and the bugs, and the snakes, and the mosquitos…don’t like to fish, don’t like to hunt…don’t like it haha
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I too grew up camping and look back on those times with great memories. Couldn’t go camping now. Too old and I would have to interact with people now.
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Backcountry camping was much easier before I had the spinal injury. I can’t lie on a thin pad on rough ground these days.
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campers always ruin my scorestreaks, they need to fookin run around or something, get out the corner and window
When I was in high school some friends and I used to go backpacking every Spring and Fall break in the Ozarks. The weather was very temperate at those times, and we slept in this shallow cave. We went swimming in some of the pools of water up and down the creek we were on. We spent the days tramping through the woods and traveling up and down the creek beds. One time we were at the base of this small cliff that was situated so that it protected the ground in front of it from all water. The earth there was this super fine, bone dry dirt. We checked around the place and we found a mangled kettle, a shoe, and a scrap of a mining newspaper dated 1906. I wish we had checked more thoroughly for other artifacts. The guy who brought this stuff was probably looking for diamonds. I think Arkansas has a few diamonds in it. We always stayed in this place for four days and then went home. Thinking back on it, we probably needed to check more carefully for poisonous copperhead snakes in that little cave. There were a few mice in that cave, and snakes always go where the rodents are. … We used to go on bivouacs in the army, and one time we were in a platoon confidence course run by the Special Forces, and that was a lot of fun. I went to that platoon confidence course twice, once in Summer and once in winter. Both times it was a lot of fun, but there were times when we were trekking over the hills and I was thinking this wasn’t fun anymore. The rest of the time when we went to the field it wasn’t that much fun. One time we went on foot through some country in Bavaria, I think, and the scenery was gorgeous, but it was too cold to really enjoy it. Most of the time when we went to the field we slept in our M!!3 armored personel carriers.
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The first time my wife and I went camping I showed up with my small one-man tent, thin mattress, and small inflatable pillow. I had a small one-burner stove and a pack of dehydrated soups to cook on it. That first night I put my back out because I had forgotten about my spinal injury and it rained and leaked into my tent. My expensive space-age sleeping bag didn’t work worth beans.
My wife showed up with a palatial 10-person tent that had a separate screened-off dining area, too. Her bed was this monster inflatable thing she covered with a bunch of quilts and huge pillows. She also had a bunch of comfy folding chairs and blankets for them and even an inflatable couch in her tent. She had a nice and large camp stove. Also, a massive cooler full of fresh fruit and veg and such. Put me to shame.
That first morning she made me drive into town and buy a decent inflatable mattress, a second good pillow, and another sleeping bag. She let me sleep in a room that zipped off from the main chamber of her tent so I didn’t get wet the second night because it rained a LOT.
I have camped her way ever since. Less suffering involved.
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I would rather stay home where it warm and dry. I camped enough when I was with the Marines.
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