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Article #170: Planning A Camping Trip For Maximum Enjoyment

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So you and the family or you and your out all your camping gear. Put up the
friends have decided to go on a camping tent. Does it need any new poles or pegs?
trip. It's Thursday night and you are Do all the zippers work? Does it need a
going to leave right after work Friday ground sheet? Do the air mattresses hold
evening. Now you go to the garage or air? Do you have all the cooking
basement and pull out the camping gear equipment including gas cylinders,
from last summer and toss it in the charcoal etc? Do you have Flashlights,
trunk. The tent, the stove and the Batteries, Sleeping Bags, Cooler? Check
cooler.(we'll buy some franks and beans the long range weather forecast. Do you
on the way). need boots, rain gear or warmer clothing
It's late Friday night when you reach (especially if you are heading to the
your camp ground and you start to pitch mountains).
your tent when you suddenly remember that Maybe you need a GPS device or two way
you don't have all the tent pegs and the radios. They need batteries too.
zipper broke the last time you used the If you are going with a group of friends
tent. Your buddy said he'd bring the gas make sure they have the check list too.
for the stove and lantern but forgot and Some things everyone needs others can be
the flashlights didn't work and you did brought by just one of the group. No need
not bring spare batteries. having ten air mattress pumps and nobody
This weekend is starting out not so brought the any toilet paper. There is
enjoyably. roughing it and then there is roughing
Let's step back a week or two and start it! You can bet that nobody forgets the
PLANNING a camping trip. beer and snack food!
First decide where it is you want to go Check your list and go out and buy what
camping. If it's the same spot as always needs to be replaced or order it online.
then decision made but if it is somewhere Basically, what it boils down to is, if
new you should check out the Internet to you Plan a camping trip rather than just
get as much information as you can about go on a camping trip you will have much
the camp ground you plan to visit. What more fun. What does it really matter if
facilities are available and what rules it rains if you have all the equipment
and regulations are in place. you need at your fingertips. You are with
The next thing to do is make a check list friends and/or family, you are warm and
of what you need to take and what you dry and you are roughing it in the great
want to take. Make this a group outdoors.
discussion involving all that are going No planning would mean you are cold, wet
on the trip. and miserable and wishing you are
The weekend before the trip go to your anywhere but half way up a mountain in
storage area (Garage, Basement) and pull the rain, having as MUSH fun as you can.






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