So I'm annoyed right now, been looking forward to go in camping with my mates for the past two weeks (I work away from home so don't get to see them all that often) then today they back out because of the weather. So I sent them a little rant on what is true camping. What do you guys think of my definition?
so yeah my rant, but what do you think about my definition?
. Right I wanna clear something up for the ******* among my friends, camping is not what you think true camping is not weather Dependant. You say the word camping and people think of taking a tent outside sleeping in that and a sleeping bag cooking a meal on a stove usually something simple and not very fulfilling then hidind from the rain and the wind in your tent. That is not camping its roughing it. Its cold, uncomfortable and is just surviving out side for a few days. It requires no knowledge and no skill. Which is why people only "camp" in good weather, be cause it makes roughing it easy.
So what is comfortable in the current time of year, comfortable is being warm an dry sat in front of a warm fire place sheltered from the wind and the rain with light maybe reading a book or listening to music, talking to friends, knowing you have a dry warm bed to go to sleep in after eating a filling hot meal.
Sounds pretty good right? YOU CAN HAVE THAT CAMPING!!!!!
With a little bit of knowledge you can have habe a warm soft bed hell it can even be raised up of the floor if you want you can have a camping chair, there's even one that are padded I prefer my hammock chair personally you can harm a warm fire place a fire with a heat reflector behind it throwing all the heat towards you. Sheltere from the elements? Find a flat bit of ground out the wind throw a tarp up over you head, now out the wind with a roof over you head in front of a warm fire place your now warm and dry sat in a chair reading a book, wow starting to sound like home, food well let's see, I want a roast dinner so I'mgunna bring with me a hunk of beef some potatoes some parsnips an onion some gravy mix and some broccoli cauliflower and peas, im going to spit an slow cook the beef over the fire wrapped the tatoes onion and parsnip in tinfoil and put then in the embers then I'm gonna put some water in my pot with the broccoli and peas and caulk and boil them over the fire once its all done in gonnaput it all on my plate add SME gravy mix to the veg water and pour it over my food. And wash it all down with a beer. YUM! Now warm fed and a Lil sleeping I'm gonna make a brew and get into my sleeping bag under my personal tarp which it pegged into the ground on one side to block the wind I'm gonna curl up warm in my sleeping bag a couple of meters away from the fire an read my book while drinking my brew before going to sleep. Warm dry and well fed and listening to the sound of the wind and the rain outside my shelter. DONT TELL ME! Its too cold, too wet or windy to be comfortable camping.
so yeah my rant, but what do you think about my definition?