What happens when you take your family camping:

[wishin4chicken]

My husband's idea of camping is having a reservation at a Marriott Hotel. Hee hee. I took the girls on my own and we had tons of fun...without him!

 

[Their Other Mother]

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Mine too!! First time we went camping he didn't want to bring a tent but sleep in the back of our van. He kept asking me if the doors were locked - we were so far out in the middle of no where it was funny - I finally asked him if he was afraid? He was but not of any animals that might wander in - he was afraid of some crazy axe murderer attacking us!

He has watched too many movies!

 

[debilorrah]

Camping. i love camping if there is a cot or an air mattress. I am too very old to sleep on the hard ground. And I need coffee. And a cook stove that handle a steak. And I need to be in a campground that isn't made of JUST dirt - those quad riders are not exactly respectful.

 

[pdsavage]

we dont camp any more cause its just more work for me.

 

[mmajw]

That is some serious camping. All we have for a tent is one from LLBean, not real sure we could put a stove in it. I love that you went in the snow.

 

[Poulets De Cajun]

Yeahhhhhh.... NO! I dont mind camping, but i've got to have a floor in the tent. This cowboy dont do no sheet over a stick tent! LOL

It'd be my luck I'd have some kind of creepy crawly critter end up snuggling with me overnight, and I guarantee you I wouldn't need that canoe to get back to civilization... I'd be running on water no doubt!

 

[chantecler]

Oblio13 The snow camping picture is amazing!!
I've wanted to do that for a long time. But what about when "nature calls"??? brrrrr

We went for one night in September- primitive - no bathroom or out house; just the bushes. In the mornig everything had thick frost and it was -3 C (no idea what that is in F but just below freezing)
I did NOT enjoy the bathroom experience... peeing in frozen bushes....

BUT there were NO mosquitos

 

[Oblio13]

Okay, here's a winter camping secret: One of the reasons the old-timer's tents didn't have floors.

When it's really cold or really raining, you dig a little hole inside your tent. You do what nature commands, and cover it up.

By the way, that's one of the reasons Indians moved their tipis so often.

 

[chantecler]

ohhhhhhh!!!!

Off topic... is that you jumping the horse in the avatar?

Pretty picture

 

[The Chicken Lady]

Here is how we camp. We're not as hard-core as you guys (but we still sleep in a tent).

I love Michigan State Parks.