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I am open to a camping trip any time except during the rainy season. It's very inconvenient to go camping with the prospect of rains. A muddy campsite makes me feel so uncomfortable. What I like is a sunny weathe. I love to wake up in the morning sunshine. It is invigorating particularly when I...

I bring a spare set of clothes when I go camping especially when there is water supply like a river or facilities. The clothes I am wearing can be washed while changing to the spare set. Even if I had been a boy scout for long, I cannot sleep with dirty clothes. Sometimes I even bring more when...

In the campsite, what do you do with leftover dinner that you will not eat anymore? Most campers here irresponsibly throw the leftover food in the woods. As far as they are concerned, the food can be eaten by the animals and insects. But in our scouting training, we dig a hole and bury the...

Do you bring life vest when you go camping with swimming? My advice is to buy a small floater that is inflatable. Include it as part of your camping essentials. There are so many incidents of drowning that could have been avoided if those in the river had a floater. You will not totally sink...

On my first hunting trip with my father when I was in grade school, he taught us his sons simple survival techniques in the wilds. And one of that is foraging for eggs in potential nesting places. It is not a good idea to climb trees for the eggs. The best bet are the nests of birds near the...

When I was in high school as a community scout, I have read about the grizzly bear in the forest that killed humans. It was a scary story. We are glad that we don't have wild and dangerous bears here in the Philippines. But there are lots of snakes here that can also kill humans in an instant...

In my scouting days, the only essential items on our minds were the water canteen and the hunting knife. Young scouts like me thought that we could survive with only those 2 things in hand. But in my adult camping days, things changed with the list that included first aid kit and personal needs...

It depends on the type of camping. When it is a family camping trip then it's a given that cooked food is on the menu. But when it is a boy's trip then no cooked meals. The most we have are raw materials for cooking but usually we don't bring any food and we just rely on what we would catch in...

There is a place where we used to go camping by the river bank. It was a fun camping because it’s just like an overnight picnic. We can swim in the river with waist-deep clear and cool water. The river has lots of treasure like small clams (not sure how it is called) that can add to our meals...

When I was camping with the boy scouts, the only weapon I had on me was the hunting knife because it was the only legal weapon for us. In my adult years, I would be bringing the .22 pistol of my father as a protection in case of unanticipated attacks by animals or humans. In the later part of my...

It was not a typical campsite but one that has no facilities. Located by the side of the water dam, that campsite is heavily patronized during weekends. There were many times that I have seen campers there wearing shorts and sando and there were even some who were half-naked as if they are in...

Have you experienced eating food that is cooked in bamboo cylinders? In one of our camping days when I was already a college student, I was taught to gather bamboo which is not easy. The bamboo pole I got was cut into cylinders of about 18 inches long. An opening was cut on the side where the...

When we go on a family camping, the women always wear thick pants. Denims is the best but those who are uncomfortable with denims can wear loose slacks. The woods is rife with enemies of the skin like insects, plants that can cause skin rashes and some small animals like snake. It is good to be...

I remember during my high school days, I would bring a big bread and cheese for my emergency food in camping. The big bread is called monay which is as big as a loaf but not sliced. It is good to eat even without the cheese but cheese is is the best partner of the big bread. It can last for days...

The presence of ants in the campsite is very irritating especially at night. But I can control it with a good tent and a barrier. With wasps and bees, I can evade them with the smoke of the bonfire. What bothers me is the attack of mosquitoes. Those flying vampires are the spreaders of diseases...

I'm not for the details of the tent because it depends on your taste for the design. The only advice I could give is the tent with zipper. I had experienced camping on a site with lots of ants that surfaced when we were already settled in the tents. Since our tent had a zipper and it was shut...

I used to be a scoutmaster for community scouts. They are the young boys who want to be boy scouts regardless of their school. The age is from 8 to 17 although what I handled was the senior scouts who are aged 13 to 17. It was a fun thing because we taught the boys on how to live in a campsite...

One scary campsite is that one by the foot of Taal Volcano in the Philippines. So many testimonies that the place is enchanted and that campers who do not give respect to the invisible inhabitants will get sick. The volcano is situated in an island although it is just less than half an hour by...

I am like a magnet for insects when I am in the forest. Especially mosquitoes, they just love my skin. That's why I always bring Off Lotion. It is a very potent repellent of insects. However, Off Lotion is kind of sticky to the skin hence I cannot use it at bedtime. I cannot sleep when my skin...

For a family camping, my usual food supply are bread and snack foods. But for meals, it is usually uncooked rice that we have to cook and for the dishes, it would depend on the facility of the campsite. In one campsite where there is a barbecue grill, we can practically cook almost anything as...