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I think the only thing I've ever made by whittlin' is a smooth stick. Still, it's an excuse to use that pocket knife you got for your 10th birthday.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

a smooth stick with A POINT that you can jab somebody with!

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

You can also make PENS. And small annoying WIND INSTRUMENTS.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Staying warm enough is urgent and key. Staying dry is important only insofar as being wet might interfere with the U&K goal of staying warm enough. In the event of great heat surplusage, wetness is very desirable, for the coolness that evaporation provides.

Cheese requires no cooking and is very forgiving about how you store it.

Do not challenge the bull in its own field. It will take umbrage and you may have regrets.

― Aimless The Unlogged, Tuesday, 24 August 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Cheese requires no cooking and is very forgiving about how you store it.

Some cheese, that is. I would advise against cheddar or anything that has a lot of oil. After a couple of days that oil just leaks everywhere. In my experience, part-skim mozerella has held up the best over long periods w/o refrigeration. Bagels hold up well as far as breads go, as does hard salami.

Remember rope and a tarp.

Are you sleeping in a tent?

― Ahgus Von Santana, Tuesday, 24 August 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

don't do it folx.

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

This seems like a lame camping trip

― Jimmy Mod, Man About Towne (ModJ), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

If you're on a "proper campsite" rather than the corner of some mucky field, pre-prepared banter for fellow campers. Variations on the "what's your name, where you from, what you on" dialogue with tent sizes substituted for class A-references. I know this because I just spent a week on a caravan site in Scotland having conversations with 7-year old kids pretending I knew where Dunfermline was.

― Philter, Tuesday, 24 August 2004 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

'camping' appears to mean a lot of different things. What kind of environment will you be in, how far from civilization is it if at all, how long will you spend there, and how are you getting there?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

you don't have to make them file a deposition, gabbneb.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

"file a deposition"?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

dude I don't know your fancy-shmancy lawyering terms!

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

anyway it's mainly covered in the thread.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah. never mind, i have nothing to add.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope you're not mad, I was only kidding with you.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I would advise taking your lawyer along, just in case something unusual happens.

― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

It is extremely important that you take a good headlamp, preferably the super bright long lived LED type and enough reading material to fill up 2 hours a day. Night comes early and sleep may not.

― Speedy (Speedy Gonzalas), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 06:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Baked beans (can). "Deb" (dried mashed potato - just add water). Ditto dried peas/carrots mix (just add water). Sausages (requires esky & ice). Onions. Tomato sauce. Matches. Can opener. "Billy" (pot with wire handle for making tea). Then again, you have the Old English Tea Shoppe next door, so scratch that. Tarpaulin. Rope. Tea towels...

http://www.pps.net.au/4wdencounter/articles/checklist.html

― Krusty, Thursday, 26 August 2004 07:03 (twenty-one years ago)

:(
My camping trip will not be 'lame'! OK we are not going to be tethered to a precipice halfway up Everest, but I like a modicum of FUN when I'm on holiday.

Thanks for all the great suggestions (maybe I'll skip the lawyer and the instant mashed potato which is the DEVIL'S FOOD, but I *will* attempt to whittle an obscene item, just for hstencil). No doubt I will report back on what we forgot, what we used, what was pointless and whether the Olde Tea Shoppe would actually serve us in muddy boots.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 August 2004 07:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Looking forward to your review. Haven't been camping myself for some time and need a few reminders, as a Sydney-Perth cross country road trip could be on the cards for Christmas/New Year.

Don't forget, beer=fun.

― Kirstie Lambert, Thursday, 26 August 2004 08:12 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

Well, I'm back. Turned out that the pub and the tea shoppe were about a mile away in the end, so we couldn't just stagger between them and our tent as we thought. Very glad, considering, of a) torch and b) crossword book. Also most useful were the plastic bags, the matches, and the multi-purpose manky blanket.

We didn't use: spare torch batteries, penknife (boo!), sun cream, spare socks.

I wish we'd taken: ziploc bags for opened food items, a hand mirror so I could have ventured out without looking like an orang-utan, and booze. (We were told not to bring alcohol onto the site but looking at the number of empty bottles in the bins area, it didn't seem that others observed that rule, and maybe I would have slept better). I didn't sleep well. Because there were rats. And very high winds.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 13 September 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

No whittlin'? Shame! You should have BBQed the rats (or maybe not).

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 13 September 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

BBQed rats, meep! Though I suppose country rats are a bit cleaner than town rats. There were also lots of road signs saying 'Badgers!' but sadly we didn't see any, just a million sheep who amusingly all seemed to be saying 'Maaatt'. And there just didn't seem to be time for whittlin'... we did go to Eastbourne though.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 13 September 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

This might be a dumb question, but if you camp at a campground and go off for a hike, what's to stop someone from making off with your tent?

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 6 April 2006 03:02 (twenty years ago)

absolutely nothing

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Thursday, 6 April 2006 03:06 (twenty years ago)

So, should you, like, not leave your tent pitched if you're going to be gone for a while?

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 6 April 2006 03:11 (twenty years ago)

You surround it with stake-lined deadfall pits.

We filled up a van with secondhand sofas last time we went. You can get collapsible jobs in Asda for less than a tenner, but they're still a bugger to carry.

Wait a minute. You brought sofas? Now you're talking my language. Sofa Sherpas!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 6 April 2006 03:16 (twenty years ago)

I'm such a city boy. I got laughed at by a the farmer I stayed with in rural NH for locking the pickup truck as we stopped to collect maple sap.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 6 April 2006 03:20 (twenty years ago)

"Ah fuck. Went camping and forgot the tent!"
"Oooh! There's one. Let's nick it."

― wmlynch (wlynch), Thursday, 6 April 2006 03:22 (twenty years ago)

bring sasquatch repellent

― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 6 April 2006 03:30 (twenty years ago)

An indispensable addition to any modern day camping trip is a laptop to watch dvds on when it gets boring.

― badg (badg), Thursday, 6 April 2006 03:50 (twenty years ago)

camping tips: use scout, not AWP. if you scout and camp, nobody is going to be too bothered by your camping. but camping with AWP is double-cheap, so people are likely to bitch/votekick you off the server.
i get accused of camping when i hear somebody round the corner, so i stop or creep near the wall/doorway and wait for them to run through, and shoot them in the side of the head. this in not camping! using your ears is 50% of the game, stealth is your friend. real campers know they are camping. clever, stealthy players know that they are just pwning, and their victims should appreciate this. all in all, pretty much anyone that moans about camping is a noob.

― teh_kit says 'dont fight u nubs just run in teh instance!' (g-kit), Thursday, 6 April 2006 08:34 (twenty years ago)

sry, thought this was ILG

― teh_kit says 'dont fight u nubs just run in teh instance!' (g-kit), Thursday, 6 April 2006 08:37 (twenty years ago)

i always get a complex about that and if someone spawns in front of me I'll quickly head off without dealing with them, and just try and wait around the corner. obv more often than not they just shoot me in the back.

so much for being the nice guy.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 6 April 2006 08:48 (twenty years ago)

this world is not for me, evidently

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 6 April 2006 09:12 (twenty years ago)

what's to stop someone from making off with your tent?

It is dirty. It may well be ugly. Its resale value is near zero. But these facts means nothing to a determined practical joker.

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:57 (twenty years ago)

In Jack London stories, even the villains would leave their victims with a hatchet or buck knife or something when they robbed them, so they could fight bears and hunt varmints until the Mounties showed up.

― andy --, Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:02 (twenty years ago)

Do not throw large stones if you're doing acid.

― Tracey "Ow" Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:15 (twenty years ago)

people leave tents all the time. it's more the valuables inside that you should be concerned about.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:46 (twenty years ago)

http://www.animationusa.com/picts/hbpict/hp02/3_Picnic-Heist.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:55 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

So everyone tell me your favorite east coast camping spots - anywhere within a day's drive or so of NYC. I'm looking to plan a long road trip with camping involved. I'm looking for natural beauty and non-overcrowdedness. I'm willing to rought it a bit in exchange, but i'm not a super-experienced camper.

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

Baby wipes, can't stress importance enough. Baby wipes.

― Ste, Thursday, 10 April 2008 08:27 (eighteen years ago)

I am also interested in this list. Although maybe more so in places accessible by metro north or Amtrak, or those plus bus and walk or cycle.

― Ed, Thursday, 10 April 2008 11:55 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.mta.info/mnr/html/getaways/outbound_gohiking.htm
http://www.amc-ny.org/
http://www.shorewalkers.org/

― gabbneb, Thursday, 10 April 2008 12:19 (eighteen years ago)

the delaware water gap is really nice for close to nyc-ness

― bell_labs, Thursday, 10 April 2008 13:08 (eighteen years ago)

Do you have any particular Delaware Water Gap spots you like? My one camping experience there was kind of miserable, even though the hike was nice.

― Hurting 2, Thursday, 10 April 2008 13:10 (eighteen years ago)

Also I want further away spots - Mass, NH, Vermont, Maine even.

― Hurting 2, Thursday, 10 April 2008 13:15 (eighteen years ago)

Does anyone have any suggestions for backcountry hiking in the NC/TN area? We'll probably end up just picking a stretch of the Appalachian Trail, unless someone has a better idea?

― Kerm, Thursday, 10 April 2008 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

Seriously on the baby wipes!

We're going camping this weekend, too!

― Ai Lien, Thursday, 10 April 2008 13:44 (eighteen years ago)

For the benefit of UKers, what are you actually supposed to do if you meet a bear when camping? Is it true that it depends on the type of bear as to what you should do?

― hejira, Friday, 11 April 2008 08:22 (eighteen years ago)

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