EVER GO CAMPING (back in the day) ???

[Mikey]

Always wanted to go camping … Like Big Jim etc...

Closest I ever got was drop-line eel fishing with my older Bro at dawn-ish.

G-dang, cleaning them eels … Let's just say, don't investigate any further (if you are a lady or gent)

Anyway, always wanted to go camping for real

Just wondering, did anybody REALLY go camping, or was that just a 70's fake thing ?

[Werewolf]

Never ever, ever wanted to go camping.

[Mikey]

Never ever, ever wanted to go camping.

One time my older bro knew I wanted to go camping so he bought a tent --- really nice cabin style tent.

Set it up in the back yard.

First thing when I went inside I seen a spider as large as a tarantula hiding in the unfolded crevices

THIS THING WAS HUGE !!!

Later, I deduced it was most likely a wolf spider

G-Dang, I hate spiders

[Megotastrophe]

Went camping with scouts a few times as a preteen. Took my son on some camping trips when he was a cub scout. We had a tent and air mattresses and sleeping bags, and electricity was available for one of the trips but we didnt use it.
Our last scout trip was here. It's kinda scout legendary.

https://www.philmontscoutranch.org/about/

[ToyTalk]

Used to go camping with my family every summer for about a week. That stopped by the time I was 12. Never went a gain until I was active duty and got deployed to a few spots. That was totally not as much fun as I remembered as a kid. LOL

[pmwasson]

I went camping as a kid on cross country road trips with my family with tents and air mattresses. Its some of my fondest memories.

Before we got married, my wife and I went camping in Yellowstone and had bison walk right past our tent early one morning.

I took my kids camping in the summers when they were young, but we mostly stayed in yurts on the Oregon coast which is really easy as you don't have to deal with a tent and are provided bunk beds.

[Makernaut]

I’ve never been much of a hunting/fishing kind of guy, but I grew up camping and going on backpacking trips and week long canoe trips on some really cool rivers and way away from civilization. Everywhere I have lived, I have gone camping and in all kinds of weather. Love it.

Coincidently, I am going next weekend and it’s the first time I will have camped in several years. This trip is a reunion of sort of a bunch of guys who I was in Scouts with back in the 1980s. A few of us went to Philmont together back in 1984 and put in over a hundred miles on trails through the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in 10 days. Not bad for a bunch of 14 and 15 year olds!

[Mikey]

………………. my wife and I went camping in Yellowstone and had bison walk right past our tent early one morning...

I'd never go camping in Yellowstone 'cause of the Grizzly bears

I HATE bears --- all kinds --- black and brown

Just had a black bear foraging in my dumpster last night.

Made a wreck of EVERTHING

[ScottA]

I was both a Cub and a Boy Scout in my youth, so yes, I've been camping. I still have my sleeping bag.

[Nostalgiabuff]

my folks didn't have much money when i was growing up. you know 5 kids, 1 income family. so camping was our vacations, every year. we would actually go most holiday weekends and then maybe a week in the summer. it was fun as kids. as an adult i've never had an interest in it. we have done it a few times over the years, but mostly at my sisters seasonal camp, where she has electricity, running water, a/c etc. we call that glamping (glam camping)

[Megotastrophe]

If you have a/c you aren't camping hahaha

[Dark Shadow]

We went at least once a month throughout grade school & junior high, and a full week each summer. Tent & sleeping bags in grade school and a small camper in jr. high, which by then, I slept in a bag on a cot outside in the open. When I was a junior in high school, my parents bought a motor home and did some long distance traveling. I didn't go with them that often at that point, but when I did, I still slept on a cot outside.