What do you like best about camping

Penelope · 12-19-2012, 11:50 PM

My favorite part of going camping is listening to the crickets as they chirp outside my tent. I enjoy looking through the top of my tent at the stars above me. It is times like these that I realize just how enormous our world and the universe are.

What do you like best about camping?

Grandpa · 12-20-2012, 12:00 AM

We camp different ways and I have preferences for each. For car camping, the smells,

and grandma's dutch oven cooking

are tops followed by nice cool sleeping weather.

For the horse packing, the comraderie,

food,

and beautiful scenery

are all great.

Then comes backpacking. Ahhhh those freeze dried meals

, the aching muscles,

the limited gear

all add up to the best camping of them all.

If they can build a road through it so lots of people can drive around, they call it a national park. But if it's too rugged and remote for a road it is only a wilderness. Out here, the scenery and animal life in the Sawtooths, the Frank Church, the Jedediah Smith, and all the various Wilderness' in the Wind Rivers pretty much surpass most National Parks.

woodsman · 12-20-2012, 03:57 AM

I enjoy the fact that I can pick up my pack and go places only a few people can and will try to reach. When the city starts getting too claustrophobic for my tastes, then the only refuge I can find is up in the mountains as far away from civilization as I can get.

WillaMarie · 12-20-2012, 05:41 AM

I would say just being outdoors all the time and listening to the night sounds at night. We live to camp near a lake or large pond so we can do some fishing. Nothing like fresh fried fish over a campfire.

bsmit212 · 12-20-2012, 05:47 AM

Just being away from people that are too warped up in their phones and lifes to care about other people. And then like Grandpa, kinda depends on the trip. When I am on the AT I love being in the shelters at night talking with other hikers, exchaning stories of places we have been and things we have seen. One great night in recent memory I was camping at a U shaped lake in north GA and the site was pretty much in the middle of the U, and we had the most wonderful symphony of bullfrogs all night.

Pathfinder1 · 12-20-2012, 08:26 AM

Hi...

It gets me away from the police. (Besides...I like camping).

ChadTower · 12-20-2012, 09:57 AM

I'm an exploring type of camper. I love going to new campgrounds, hiking in new places, and most of all I love experiencing all of that with my wife and sons. My wife cannot hike but my sons sure can and we have some of the best hiking in the world closeby.

Maybe my favorite moment these days is arriving at the campground for the first day. Long drive, everybody is a bit tired and there is a lot of work to do, but that smell of 30 campfires hits your nose and it's like a switch goes off in your soul. Everything is good now! You're here!

Theo · 12-20-2012, 05:56 PM

Pretty much everything.

Judy Ann · 12-20-2012, 06:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Theo

Pretty much everything.

Except lack of bathrooms

oldsarge · 12-20-2012, 07:49 PM

The late night camp fires. Waking up to the smell of the outdoors. Just being away fro it all. It's been forever since I've been out though, I sure miss it!