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Old 06-14-2012, 05:18 PM   #1
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I was first exposed to camping as a Boy Scout and have loved it ever since. It's great to get into nature and away from electronic devices.


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Old 06-14-2012, 06:25 PM   #2
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Camping goes back at least 5 generations in my family. We have all grown up with it. My grandfather and great-grand father use to take a wagon for 2 weeks to Mt St. Helens every summer to climb "the mountain." Grandpa Hite had a wooden leg lost in a mining accident near Cripple Creek, CO but it never stopped him.


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Camping and enjoying the outdoors is a long tradition in my family also. I was lucky enough to grow up knowing it and having parents that took me out in it quite often.

It's all I've ever wanted and all I've ever done with the exception of Drum and Bugle Corps for 17 years. If I wasn't playing my horn, I was outside. It's still all I ever want to do.

I don't even pay attention to sports, can't name more than probably 6 basketball teams, don't know whether to run or stay on a fly ball, don't know how the score works in football and could care less. I might become a spectator if ever the day comes where I can't be outside anymore. Until then, I'll be hiking, paddling or doing something else out there.


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My grandfather and uncle were both big hunters. They would go camping and had all the "stuff". My earliest memories were camping at Myrtle beach state park in my grandfathers giant duck-canvas looking green and yellow four person tent with big poles that would be right at home as part of a chain link fence. It was definitely a car camping tent, and HOT.


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I was pretty much born into it. I've been going camping for as long as I can remember. I was also in the boyscouts, and did a lot of camping there too.


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Great grandpappy showed up here in November of1864 in a covered wagon with a wife and a 6 month old baby. They lived in the covered wagon that winter (early style motor home, 4 horsepower) and every other day he would take the team up the canyon and cut a big Douglas Fir and drag it home. Then he'd saw off the length he needed for the cabin and use the rest for firewood. Guess it has been camping in this family ever since. I still remember bits and pieces of my first trip to Yellowstone at the age of 3 or 4 in the old model A.


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As a kid with my family. Then got into backpacking and paddling through my Uncle.


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I was raised camping alot my family loves it and now that im older i still love it. theres nothing like the feel of sleeping outdoors and waking to the cool crisp mornings.


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I grew up on a dairy farm, and we didn't do much (read any) camping, or traveling either for that matter. I remember sleeping in a cardboard box in the back yard when I was about 6 until the mosquitoes drove me inside, so I'd say the bug was always there.


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