Your first camping trip

Itchy_Ivy · 11-28-2010, 01:15 AM

How young were you when you went on your first camping trip? Was it with your family or with friends? Have you ever went camping with the Boy/Girl Scouts?

Refrigerator · 11-28-2010, 06:04 AM

9 years old in our backyard with old bed sheets...clothes pins, 2 sticks cut from a willow tree and a dog. Yep I was on a true wilderness camp out back then. My MOM even prepared me a paper bag late snack and always had a new fresh set of batteries in the old flashlight.

HikerChick · 11-28-2010, 10:41 AM

My parents took us on camping trips from when we were very young, so I don't really remember my first. The first time I really felt like I was truly "camping," though, was with my mother and extended family on a beach where we had to bring our own water, dig our own "toilets", and for the first time I had to entertain myself with something other than handheld video games because there was nowhere to charge the console! I think I was a teen by then.

Erwin · 11-28-2010, 10:43 AM

My first camping trip was our back yard also. Why pay for a place when you have 80 acres! I also went camping when I was in boy scouts and loved it, I learned a lot from those trips.

Seven · 11-28-2010, 11:03 AM

My first trip was when I was 12 and in boy scouts. Ever since that trip I have loved to camp and go backpacking! I love the outdoors and just wish I had more time to enjoy it.

Jobiwan · 11-28-2010, 02:35 PM

The first time I camped I was a baby. My parents used to frequent a small campground and our summers were always spent there. At first it was all tenting but when I was like 12-13 they got there first camper but I would pitch a tent behind it. I also camped quite a bit with the scouts in all seasons.

Michael · 11-28-2010, 09:20 PM

The first time I camped was in a tent behind my grandparents' house when I was a kid. I barely remember it. I must have been 6 or 7. I think my older brother set the thing up.

Itchy_Ivy · 11-28-2010, 10:43 PM

I wish I live in a place in which my kids could camp out back. I have a very big backyard, but I wouldn't want them to camp there.

Tired_Sneakers · 11-28-2010, 10:49 PM

I don't remember the first time because I was very small. We then stopped for a long time and it wasn't until I was a lot older when I started camping again.

paloma · 11-29-2010, 03:58 AM

I didn't realize that it was camping until I read Refrigerator's post. We did that too in our backyard at about that age. We gathered used tarps and sheets and built a tent, and we cooked our meals in there every weekend. It was fun.