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A few weeks back I came back from an amazing trip in Bon Echo Park. We stayed for 2 nights and 3 days and everything was amazing, we could not have asked for better weather. During our first canoe ride to the camp site from the canoe launch area we had some trouble navigating through a shallow...

For anyone who is interested in doing some camping at any time within the next year, this is an amazing deal for you. To celebrate the 150th anniversary Canada parks is offering free unlimited access for 2017 if you order one of these cards! :D...

Camping Babble and sites like it a great (at least I think so :cool:) for general discussion and part of what makes them so interesting is interacting with people from all around the world is also what makes them different from local community organizations. I have seen some Facebook groups...

... Well actually, some of them I did think of 18 awesome camping gear ideas you never would have thought of

Camping Babble is compatible with the Forum Alerts Chrome extension so if you are interested in getting alerts from your browser when you receive a forum alert, you should check it out! That is all :)

Inspired by @Northern Dancer, I decided to post this article here. First Look: Upcoming 2017 Outdoors Gear Do you see anything that piques your interest? Anything to add to your wish list or old equipment that needs replacing?

I was wondering if any members had thoughts on reordering the forum category list to be in alphabetical order. They had sort of grown organically to the state they are in now and now that we have quite a few categories, I thought this might improve the ability of people to quickly find what they...

Hi all, I've noticed Tapatalk is very popular amongst our forum users and I was wondering what you guys like about Tapatalk and if you have tried the mobile site in a browser. Is the Tapatalk experience much better? Is there anything we can improve to make the browsing experience better? If...

Given the much smaller population of Canada than the other areas with their own forum, the Canada one surprisingly holds its own in amount of activity. Is that because we have a lot of Canadians here or are we just more vocal? :P

I was wondering, do most of you guys eat more or less than you do at home when you're camping? I've found that this varies a lot from group to group depending on how many of the group members like to cook, what food was brought with, what other activities the camp site offers other than eating...

As part of a recent software upgrade you can now tag threads on Camping Babble. You may have noticed this already and you may have even tagged a few threads yourself. It is a create way to help further categorize content. For example all the recipes might be tagged "recipes" which helps members...

Hey guys, So after a long wait, the Camping Babble patches/crests are finally available. All you need to do to get yours is private message me your shipping information and I will send you a patch. They are fairly small so I think shipping should not be too expensive so there is no charge...

When you are out hiking or biking, how much water do you carry? Sometimes if I am going on a particular long hike/ride I will bring my CamelBak which can hold just shy of 2 litres (67 ounces) of fluids. Do you find it a hassle?

Does anybody here attend any conventions for camping related stuff? I live in a major city so pretty much every week there is a convention of some sort being hosted on topics ranging from Bitcoins to Anime to House & home. I have been to one for boating which was mostly power boats but they also...

@Northern Dancer, how well do you find the Solar Panel works when your base camp is in a wooded area? I thought they basically did not work unless they were exposed to direct sunlight or maybe I was wrong.

I always imagined that a camping site would receive more traffic during camping season but after the surge of traffic the site experienced recently I decided to look a little deeper. This Google Trends data certainly explains a lot but I had no idea the difference would be so dramatic. Take a...

Are there any star gazers with some memorable experiences they wouldn't mind sharing? I know that on a lot of nights the trees and clouds block out the stars and sometime even the moon but it can be very beautiful during the right conditions. I thinks its great that the constellations change...

I picked up myself one of these a while back and I am very satisfied with the purchase. Its a great general purpose tool for outdoors and around the house and the fact that its fairly cheap means that I'm not afraid to abuse it a little. There's tons of reviews and information about this knife...