Camping.. Really Roughing It. - Page 2

korinna5555 · 06-25-2008, 06:44 PM

Spirit quests are fun. ^^

HumanePain · 06-25-2008, 08:03 PM

The best thing about camping is the silence. Something about being in the desert and seeing natural landscape for miles without any sign of civilization, and only your thoughts.

Or in the mountains in the winter, when snow dampens every sound, and all you hear is your heartbeat. I swear I could almost hear the pine trees breathing.

I would do it more often but I miss the elementary requirements of a sub-cultured gentleman.

Corpsey · 06-25-2008, 08:10 PM

Eh? How can you be a gentleman and let things prevent you going into the outdoors? Or are you referring to how you have less time to play these days? If so, then prepare yourself for when you get a chance to retire to go wandering into the wild every now and then. My Grandparents on my Father's side are progressing into their late 70's & 80's and still go walking in the bush almost once a week.

Godslayer Jillian · 06-25-2008, 08:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Corpsey

How can you be a gentleman and let things prevent you going into the outdoors?

That quote sounds awesome if read alone.

HumanePain · 06-25-2008, 08:15 PM

Agreed, wasn't there a quote by an Englishman (can't remember who damn it!) who said:

"Americans have forgotten how to take a walk." (outdoors)

:googles quotes...:

Corpsey · 06-25-2008, 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian

That quote sounds awesome if read alone.

Thanks, I think it was something my Father said to me when I was younger.

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Originally Posted by HumanePain

Agreed, wasn't there a quote by an Englishman (can't remember who damn it!) who said:

"Americans have forgotten how to take a walk." (outdoors)

:googles quotes...:

I remember you telling me that sometime ago. It's quite a bit of a nudge and a push saying.

Opteron_Man · 06-26-2008, 01:38 AM

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Originally Posted by HumanePain

Agreed, wasn't there a quote by an Englishman (can't remember who damn it!) who said:

"Americans have forgotten how to take a walk." (outdoors)

:googles quotes...:

Nice quote. Very nice. True.

Raptor · 06-26-2008, 06:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian

As I've said before, after you spend two or three nights in the wild - or at least in a non-urban setting without cultural commodities - you begin to see an increase in the depth and vividness of your dreams.

Thats never happened for me, but I do find sleeping feels a lot better and its far easier to wake up and get going in the morning. Even if you get up really early.

badteccy · 06-26-2008, 08:34 AM

I used to do roughing up camping when I was younger, I can make a pretty bitchin' fire.

Underwater Ophelia · 06-26-2008, 08:44 AM

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Originally Posted by korinna5555

I like it as long as there's no humidity/heat, no bugs, and I have a nice comfy bed and a hot shower to come home to afterwards.

Where do you camp where there's no bugs?

Underwater Ophelia · 06-26-2008, 08:45 AM

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Good for you! Did you enjoy it Underwater Ophelia?

Yes.
I like camping.

badteccy · 06-26-2008, 08:46 AM

My mom and I were thinking of going on a small camping trip, but goddamn camp sites are not 8 bucks a night anymore (I miss the 90's).

Methadrine · 06-26-2008, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Underwater Ophelia

Where do you camp where there's no bugs?

I've heard that Klendathu is great this time of the year...

Opteron_Man · 06-28-2008, 01:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian

As I've said before, after you spend two or three nights in the wild - or at least in a non-urban setting without cultural commodities - you begin to see an increase in the depth and vividness of your dreams.
I have actually wanted to go camping for a couple of months already, so as to not get burnt out by school.

Well, When my asshole father kicked me out, I spent the bigger part of a week on the street. Whe he let back in to get some shit out of my bedroom so I could move to a gouphome, I noticed that my room was like a palace compaored to the ground in the bush I slept on and live among.

It is the same as rough camping, once you go without nice things, you appriciate the goodies more when you have them again.

Opteron_Man · 06-29-2008, 06:04 AM

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Originally Posted by korinna5555

Spirit quests are fun. ^^

I have no idea what a spirit quest is.

Underwater Ophelia · 06-29-2008, 06:40 AM

Don't worry, neither does she.

She_Is_My_Sin · 06-29-2008, 07:05 AM

I've never been camping. It sounds great though.

LiUsAiDh · 06-29-2008, 02:12 PM

I went climbing and camping for 3 days once, it was horrific. It was cold, wet and somehow managed to be both boring and irritating being in a tiny two man tent with fellow classmates. :S

Raptor · 06-29-2008, 02:22 PM

Where did you go?

Lapin · 06-29-2008, 03:13 PM

I have allergies and a slightly unnatural aversion to being dirty.

I don't camp.

Solumina · 06-29-2008, 04:39 PM

A spirit quest is essentially the same as a vision quest, only it is not done a an initiation rite but instead is generally undertaken as a search for answers, this should give you a good basic idea of what they entail. I went on a spirit quest a while ago and while I would most certainly say that it wasn't the most fun thing that I have ever done, it was an amazing experience

LiUsAiDh · 06-30-2008, 06:58 AM

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Where did you go?

The Lake District, near Ullswater. Its only a wee bit away form my house.

Opteron_Man · 07-02-2008, 01:54 AM

I bought a very nice camping backpack from someone who used it on the street while homeless in Toronto. I paid ten bucks. I asked him if he was sure he said yes so I bought it. I'ts a really nice inner frame one. I can store my tent and sleeping bag and every thing else I need for a week of fun.

I had to wash it in the tub with laundry soap twice cause it
reeked of smokes and rotten sweat. It was in perfect condition because he took care of it. I don't think he ever washed it.

Raptor · 07-02-2008, 07:35 AM

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Originally Posted by LiUsAiDh

The Lake District, near Ullswater. Its only a wee bit away form my house.

Hmm I think I went there a long time ago, not camping though. Did you say classmates in a two man tent? As in more than one other person in the tent with you? Maybe that was what made the trip horrible lol, unless that was just a typing error.

I like being high enough that you can drink water from streams without doing any purification to it.

LiUsAiDh · 07-03-2008, 06:21 AM

Yes, there were 4 of us in a two man tent. Our genius teacher though that because we weren't exactly gigantic, we could use smaller and 'lighter' (Pfff, still weighed a tonne >_>) tents. Unfortunately he forgot that we weren't actually half the size of the average man, i.e. I'm taller than 3 feet *thumbs up* Big whoop.

A number of things made it horrid; the rain, the walk - which seemed to be permanently uphill, for three days, and ending up in a valley - I still have no idea how the staff managed to pull that one off, there were sheep next to the tents, my tentmates talked incessantly about the possibility of flashing their tits at the guys in the tent opposite (>_>), it was foggy, I had quite a few blisters, my pack weighed five stones, the list goes on.

Eugh.

On the subject of water from streams, unless you're in a very remote area I'd purify it. If you're meaning in the UK I'd definitely purify it, because the land (well, in the Lake District) it farmed usually to the top of mountains. And a dead animal may be in the waters upstream, even if you are fairly near the source. Also tourists occasionally pee in them >_> Having said that I've drunk it before. :S