Camping Clickie

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Since we got back this afternoon...

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Damnit, I wish you could edit your poll! I hit enter before I remembered to click retract

[bettylou79]

If I answered for DH and his family it would be "nothing but what fits in a back pack." We camped that way a few years ago with his family. I prefer my car camping please, back packing wasn't bad though.

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Growing up I never camped, like not even in the backyard.

H took me car camping for the first time when I was like 27 and then we did a backpacking trip for 1 night a year later. I haven't been camping since. I don't hate it, but it's not my thing. I don't mind doing it once in a while for a night at a time, but anything longer than that and I feel icky.

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I don't care what kind of camping it is as long as I am in a tent on the ground I am happy. We never had a camper motor home growing up and I don't want one because that is not camping in my opinion. If we go I don't want to have any electricity or running water, except the river, around us.

[emyinpink]

I voted backpacking because that's probably my favorite, but DH and I love all forms (well, we'd never do an rv, and cabins kind of squick me out for some weird reason).

[llh0211]

Aug 12, 2012 23:51:20 GMT -5 @sfgal530 said:

I do not camp. This pretty much sums up my views on camping (I find this to be absolutely hilarious):

stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2009/08/14/128-camping/

This is pretty much me. And I may have forwarded that link to several people. I will go occasionally. Like once every 5+ years. Maybe. But it's not my idea of a good time. My family all LOVE camping. I equate it to pretending like you're homeless.

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My family went car camping and that's still what I like. I have a bad back, so a heavy backpack wouldn't work for me and I need an air mattress. Ever since puberty, I seem to have a perfectly coincided period with our annual camping trip about 80% of the time. I need a toilet, porta-potty even counts, I just can NOT keep my balance and not pee on my pants or deal with the concept of tampons out in the middle of the woods

[MrsH2010]

I will camp in a tent but I will only do it in a campground with flushable toilets and showers.

However for the past few years since my parents got their trailer we have been going in that.

[mkate710]

I never camped until I met H. He was an eagle scout who grew up backpacking and building cooler campfires than all the other guys, so when he wanted to take me I gave it a shot. I gotta say, it's really really grown on me.

Granted, all we've done is car camping with access to flush toilets, so that's not really "roughing it". I also insist on bringing a queen size air mattress, which gets side eyed by "real" campers. But there's something about falling asleep with the rain fly off the tent looking at the stars through the trees that is just so peaceful. And since we aren't sleeping directly on the ground, we actually get a lot of sleep and come back pretty refreshed.

[georgeharrison]

I am a huge baby when it comes to camping. I do not like being dirty or cold. In W. Wa all the campgrounds are super shaded, so I am usually cold and being huddled beside the campfire all day isn't fun to me. If it's raining that's even worse. If we went to E. Wa, I'd have a better time, but James gets too hot. So, we duke it out all summer about camping and hardly ever end up going. James and Tman do a father/son campout with the church every June. I always hope they get it out of their system then, but usually not.

[niq]

W. car camps. it feels a bit like cheating. But, buying hiking gear is super spendy, so I'm not sure when we'd do that..

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Aug 13, 2012 12:44:14 GMT -5 spunbutterfly said:

I do not sleep on the ground unless I am drunk.

:Y:

[emyinpink]

Aug 13, 2012 11:36:35 GMT -5 niq said:

W. car camps. it feels a bit like cheating. But, buying hiking gear is super spendy, so I'm not sure when we'd do that..

I will say it was spendy to get started, but now it's a super cheap vacay for us. Most of the places we backpack don't require any special permits beyond the discovery pass to park our car, all we have to bring is food, and it's vacay + exercise .