Search results

NOT FOR ME BUT IT IS A GROWING TREND Recently, a global trend has caught fire that offers outdoor enthusiasts an upgrade on rest and recreation. It's called glamping, a new word for a new kind of travel, defined as glamorous camping. When you're glamping, there's no tent to pitch, no...

What's the matter with us? Vandals permanently damaged sandstone walls and destroyed archaeological artifacts in the process of inscribing their names in Mesa Verde National Park. Names written on sandstone walls, prehistoric charcoal dug up and destroyed, rock cairns pointlessly strewn across...

...let me see now - how does the leadership shape up? Can they climb the walls, hike the trails, ride the bikes, canoe, water ski and participate in a host of other physical activity? My observation is that the best groups are the ones that have sound leadership AND physically fit Scouters...

-----> Most were aware of the Jamboree - if people weren't you sure were after your President's address. :)

-----> THANKS. All the stuff is piled here and there to be packed into the barrels. Still working on reducing the amount of equipment but there always seems to be one more item I've just got to take. :(

----> The seats are comfortable because they are webbed and seem to fit better than some of the other ones on the market. The flotation devise is a sealed air pocket. The canoe material is an ultralight Kevlar and weighs 41 pounds. This is a tripping canoe and designed to take on extra weight...

My thwart bag - not nearly as creative as yours...but it will do.

My babee is ready!

Thank you - you got that right. It is the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (not Mountain Police as Rolling Stone reported). :) Though it would be Provincial Police that would be coming to get you - they are identified with sky blue bands on their caps. The Haliburton Highlands (Water Trail) is...

...as many already know I was expelled as a Cub Scout. I can still still hear Akala's stern words ringing in my ears as I left the hall. "I never want to see you again - ever." Anyway - years later I became an awarded Leader and eventually a national trainer.

-----> I know I know, I just take this camping stuff too seriously. Actually - we are returning to Red Pine Lake but staying at a site that we haven't been before. From there we will explore the area to our hearts content. We are planning to be away for five nights so we can really enjoy...

....you can do all that stuff - but not in the interior. I'll be tripping next week into a new location. Though they have the standard "Thunder Box" I can guarantee that there will be no toilet seat. So I take one along, install it and leave it behind. I mean - well you know what I mean...

...when I'm tripping I put my sleeping pad into an insert and then place it in the sleeping bag. I don't have any trouble rolling around and neither can the sleeping bag slip off.

For hiking, canoeing, back packing, trail biking a quick and immediate full snack/meal for a $1.00 in our neck of the woods. Even comes with its own fork. Fast, efficient, cheap and good tasting. Dollar Store and Dollar Tree as well as similar type stores will have these and other...

:peeking:THIS IS A CAMP SKILLS INSTRUCTIONAL MODULE You smell Dude! I definitely do no subscribe to the idea of not washing, cleaning teeth and shaving while on a trip. It's okay for a day or two or when you are in an all out race to get to a particular destination. But after two days? Try...

Howling wind. It can torment us in the backcountry. But few are the camp sites, especially above tree line, that the wind won’t find. It's always blowing on Red Pine Lake. Perhaps the most frustrating of the windy-weather camp tasks is setting up your tent and shelter. I certainly had that...

AND THEN THERE IS HIKING IN GERMANY'S BLACK FOREST -----> What a wonderful world!

HOPE EVERY CAMPING BABBLER IS HAVING A FABULOUS SUMMER! :-}

...interesting perspective. Glad that I'm a Canadian.

NOT CAMPING? Visit 2seed's thread THE IMAGINARY MEETING PLACE. Fun stuff and enjoyable.