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Camping
Living outdoors, whether it is in a rough lean-to, a tent, or a Winnebago with all the comforts of home, camping is a favorite pastime for many. Spend some time in our Camping category to learn all the joys of living in harmony with nature.
955 Questions
Why does a down filled sleeping bag keep you warm?
Down traps a lot of air, and air is a good insulator.
What are some camping and caravan clubs that people can join?
There are many camping and caravan clubs around the world where enthusiasts can join to get to know like minded people. One such place is the Camping and Caravanning Club in the UK.
What do you need for when you go camping?
The gear-oriented style of camping (i.e. camping very near the car).
Gear-oriented campers are the people who like to be comfortable and prepared for anything. Their campsites are fully 'furnished with tables, chairs, stoves, cots and other conveniences. While enjoying and respecting the outdoors, gear-oriented campers also prefer the little amenities that make a backcountry trip safe and secure - a home away from home. Their camping checklist will be much more extensive than the minimalist's. In this article, we'll focus on the gear-oriented camping list. It's always easier to remove items from a list than it is to realize you've forgotten some crucial piece of camping equipment on a cold rainy night.
Gather the basics first.
It goes without saying that you'll need some basic items: a tent (preferably with a rain fly and at least one window), a good-quality sleeping bag, camping stove, camping food and water. Here's a list of some other gear that can make your campsite more accommodating:
Plastic sheeting for tent floor
Air mattress or pad for under sleeping bag
Large plastic boxes or buckets for food and equipment storage
Emergency blanket; also called space blanket
Tent seam sealer
Folding tables
Folding chairs
Outdoor furniture - lightweight aluminum lawn chairs are a good choice
Stools
Pillows
Binoculars
First aid kit with blister treatment products
Tarp(s) with grommets - can be rigged for shade or used to keep firewood dry
Rope and twine or string
Cots
Small shovel
Sunscreen
Portable toilet
Toilet paper
Moist towelette or baby wipes
Personal care items: soap, shampoo, toothpaste, etc.
Insect repellent
Tool (such as a hammer or axe) to pound in tent stakes
Backpack, daypack, or fanny pack
Towels and washcloths
Next, get ready to build a homey, welcoming fire.
Sounds easy doesn't it? Gather some wood and build a fire. If you've ever arrived at your campsite on a dreary, rain-soaked day, you know how hard it can be to get a fire going. Even though the outside of the wood may be wet, the inside of larger pieces is probably dry. So bring a small axe and be prepared to split some logs. Also, store your matches in a waterproof container, or better, carry a butane lighter. Dry kindling is harder to find than dry wood. The easiest solution is to bring a supply of kindling from home to get that first fire started without a hitch. Some campers bring a few dry logs as well. A small bow saw can also be very helpful. All these items should be included on your camping checklist.
Dining al fresco in style.
While the minimalist is content to rehydrate a pouch of dried field rations, the gear-oriented camper enjoys hearty, camp-cooked meals. There is a variety of easy-to-prepare camping foods available, but many people like cooking from scratch in the outdoors. So, a more elaborate camping stove is required - something with more than one burner and adjustable flame. Or bring some iron bars to rig a pot hanger right over the fire for slow-simmering that 3-alarm chili. You'll also need a cooler and ice or ice packs for your fresh food. Other equipment for the cooking portion of your camping checklist includes:
Can opener
Bottle opener
Cutlery for food preparation and serving - sharp knife, large spoon, large fork, ladle
Cookware - cast iron works well
Messkits or other eating vessels and implements - forks and spoons
Extra camping stove fuel
Camping recipes
Small charcoal or propane grill - a cast-iron hibachi is small and efficient
Appropriate fuel for grill
Dishrack and dishwashing detergent
Pot lifter or pot holders
Coffee maker
Cutting board
Colander
Tongs
Thermos
Tablecloth
Storage containers
Plastic cutlery, paper plates, plastic or paper cups
Paper towels
Napkins
Trash bags
Aluminum foil
Light up the night.
Be sure to bring several flashlights and plenty of extra batteries. A lantern or two will cast some welcome light in camp. Your lamps can run on a battery, liquid fuel or propane. Be sure to have some extra mantles on hand if any of your lights use them. Lighting is important - don't underestimate its value, especially if there are children in your party. Children should have their own water-resistant flashlights. What child doesn't remember playing camping games in their tent late at night by the glow of a lantern or flashlight? Kids also enjoy glow sticks.
More essential equipment.
If you're planning on hiking, you'll need a backpack, compass, travel guide, map, suitable shoes, extra socks and a hat. Another indispensable piece of camping gear is the multifunction pocket knife. These handy little tools often include:
Screwdriver - flathead and Phillips
Bottle opener
Can opener
Corkscrew
Scissors
Tweezers
Awl
One or two super-sharp blades.
One model pocket knife even comes with a reusable plastic toothpick, something you might never think of including on your camping checklist. All backpacks should contain such a knife. If you're going to swimming or bathing in a lake or stream, which often have rock bottoms, some type of waterproof footgear, like the popular "jellies," is essential.Other miscellaneous items to bring:
Duct tape
Safety pins
Sewing kit
Small battery-operated radio
Camera or camcorder with extra film and batteries
Reading material
Playing cards, checkers, chess set, etc.
Paper and pen
Battery-operated clock
Basic tools: pliers, screwdriver, hammer
Camping is great recreation.
From campgrounds that are more like resorts to the challenge of true wilderness camping, you're bound to find some "level" of camping that's just right for you. Bringing the right outdoor equipment is the best way to ensure your trip will be a memorable one. A camping checklist will streamline your packing and preparation. Although experience is the best teacher, a good, comprehensive checklist can help make the difference between an enjoyable camping trip and a disastrous one. Your checklist will be dynamic - you'll add items and remove items with every trip. Just be sure to keep it up to date. Whether you're a minimalist or a gear-oriented camper, camping provides many challenges. A thoughtfully-devised checklist will enable you to sleep dry and warm, build a welcoming fire, enjoy a great camp-cooked dinner, light your camp effectively and handle any miscellaneous small emergencies that might occur.
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GOING LIGHT:
The above is a bit excessive in places even if you are camping by your car but you'd need to cut down considerably to the best, lightest and most minimal kit you can obtain and select if you are going back-packing with your tent etc.
Most of the above is utterly superfluous for backpacking (battery-operated clock? I use a watch!. Screwdriver and hammer?) and the original question asked about "... camping andhiking...".
Let's assume a 2-night wilderness walk in Spring-Summer conditions. Winters are more specialised if the route is above the snow-line....
Bulk Equipment: Lightweight, small, tent able to withstand the likely conditions if the weather breaks.
Sleeping-bag of insulation value appropriate to the area, altitude and weather (seasonal).
Sleeping-mat - the "self-inflating" type is best but their surfaces may be too smooth if you camp on a slope!
Good-quality rucksack that will carry everything in this list. comfortably, on your back with the weight on your hips. (The tent may have to go on top or under the sack - but consider how to share loads if sharing a tent). Jangly dingly-dangly pans outside the pack are so naff as well as so annoying to you.
Appropriate map and compass. Take a GPS too if you have one but remember, batteries can fade... Oh, and your portable phone might not have any coverage out in the hills. Small torch: LED head type the most convenient, plus a few spare cells, but be a bit discerning when choosing one from the bewildering array (!) in the catalogues..
You might want to chuck in a pack of cards or a thin novel for the evenings... but I have never found any need even for week-long hill-camps. Music? Up to you but I go out to get away from such things. The sounds of wind, streams, sheep and birds are free and don't need down-loading.
Clothes: Appropriate, lightweight, easily-dried clothing including warm jacket and water + wind-proof outer jacket and over-trousers. Proper walking-boots & socks; gaiters are optional but useful. Gloves or mittens. Suitable hat (I have a thin fleece open-face balaclava that is also ideal for wearing in bed in cold conditions. Walking-poles: If you need them use them in pairs, adjusted and used correctly, otherwise they will be a hindrance rather than help. Th e rule is 2 or 0.
Kitchen: Lightweight gas-cartridge or liquid-fuel stove and pan set. Lots of choice but think about efficiency etc. Mine is a Trangia with both meths (alcohol) and gas burners, but though very good, it is a bit bulky. Matches or lighters for same (take both / spares!). Sheet of thick aluminium foil to fashion a wind-break for open-burner stoves.
Water bottle (I litre). Mug (unbreakable), Spoon. Pen-knife. You may prefer a lightweight camping knife-fork-spoon set + pen-knife but NO MORE because you select the food whose cooking needs no more utensils than I've listed.
Small combined sponge/scourer pad. All my small bits like that travel inside the empty Trangia kettle.
Foods: see the first answer. Plan a menu. Absolute minimum, of tins & bottles. I do use boil-in-the-bag meals but they are heavy for their size. You may well expend a minimum of 3000 to 4000 calories a day walking, especially in uncomfortable temperatures or in very hilly terrain. Typical for me: Breakfast: Porage or muesli. Lunch: Small tin of sardines or squeezy-tube of savoury spreads with crispbread biscuits, sweet bars, dried fruit. Evening: boil-in-bag or dried savoury preparation with pasta or powdered potato. Dried fruit simmered a little in water, drained and with instant custard or other topping. Plus hot drinks ingredients, a small plastic (squeezy) jar of honey for eating on crispbreads and as a sweetener. Snack foods: sweet bars, boiled sweets, etc, and of course dried fruit. Milk powder.
Decant foods where you can into smaller, portion-controlled packets before your trip. If the munchy-bars come individually wrapped in a cardboard box, leave the box at home.
Hygiene: Toilet-roll (in a plastic bag to keep it dry). I also recommend a small trowel since if you have to use cat-type sanitation you will want to bury the stuff. Won't you!
A small bottle, a little bit bigger than those supplied in hotel bathrooms, filled with cheap antibacterial liquid soap, should suffice for 2-3 days. Washing your hands after the "toilet" and before handling food is essential! It does not matter about the rest of you being a bit grubby, for a couple of days.
Sun-protection and insect-repellent crèmes or sprays. Sun-glasses. Small, basic first-aid kit. You might wish to take a small ball of string and some adhesive tape for minor repairs, but you won't need the workshop specified above!
Enjoyment. Enjoy the trip!
Why do you need to use a tent on a multi-day expedition?
With the advances of weather predictions that we have today we can pretty much dictate what equipment we will need for a camping trip. However, I have been camping and backpacking my whole life and I can tell you that it is still a guess. An educated guess but still a guess. The weather can turn on you faster than you could imagine. If you are going to be out for more than an overnight trip then you have to prepare for all possibilities. I have been on day trips that have become overnight trips due to the weather. Nothing can ruin a trip quicker than getting wet or worse getting snow bound. Shelter is the number one important thing that you have to be comcerned with. If you get wet then hypothermia can set in even in the summer. Nights can be cold or cooler than the days and if the temperature outside is less than your body temperature then you can get hypothermia. It can kill you. You may also need to escape from the bugs or the sun or the wind. Like the Boy Scouts motto says, "Be Prepared."
When and where to use an A-frame tent?
I would say on flat ground due to the face that the poles must be kept straight in order to work well
It depends where you go to get it as well as the quality and size of the tent you want. If you are from UK then you can browse gardenmore.co.uk to get quality tent in your budget, starts from £59.99..
How do you do you change the awning on a camper?
Most awnings have springs with a lot of tension on them. This can be very dangerous to someone that does not know what they are doing. It is best to leave it up to an RV dealer to do to most awning work.
How much does a 40 pound propane tank weigh?
a typical steel "30 pound" liquid propane tank weighs about 25-28 pounds empty.
propane tank markings (on collar)
propane weighs about 4.125 pounds per gallon and a "30 pound tank" will
hold about 7.5 gallons so a full tank will weigh about 55 pounds or so.
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What are the advantages of living in a tent?
1.Tents could blow over. 2.Animals could rip trhough tents 3.If it rains and your in a tent you could get wet.(unless you use a tarp or something else)
What does people like to do during camping?
depends on what time of year it is and where you live but swimming is the most popular activity to do while camping. Of course it also depends on how old the people going camping are little kids love see animals and bugs and stuff like that so walking around and looking at every little deatail of the area is the best way to go
What should you take with you camping?
; Sleeping Gear : Sleeping bag or bed roll : Extra blankets : Pillow with pillow case ; Cooking Gear : Mess kit (or small frying pan, small sauce pan, plate and bowl - non-breakable) : Cup (non-breakable) : Knife, fork and spoon (non-breakable) : Dunk bag - this can be a bag made from two dish clothes sewn together with drawstrings made from shoestrings, or a nylon net bag : Water bottle ; Camp Gear: : Sit-upon : Girl Scout book or camping information : Notebook, pencil, pen : Large flashlight and extra batteries : Work gloves or plastic gloves if desired for clean-up : Camera and film (optional) : Large plastic bag for wet items ; Personal Gear : Shirts : Jeans or other long pants : Shorts : Underwear : Socks (at least 2 per day) : Warm jacket : Light jacket or sweater : Rain gear : Extra sturdy shoes or boots : Pajamas (consider using sweatshirt and pants) : Toliet Articles: toothbrush
toothpaste
comb or brush
: Wash cloth and towel : Soap : Insect Repellent : Hat
Can you take vinyl records camping?
Yes you can generally take VHS and VCR's camping if its portable or not portable
if its fine or okay to you
Of course, you will need to take a television set and have a suitable source of electric power to put the vhs or vcrs to any use.
What gas is in a camping stove?
There are several types of camping gas. One is brand named Coleman fuel. It is used in camp stoves and lanterns. It is a liquid gas.
Another is propand that comes in smaller disposable tanks and large refilable tanks. This also is used for some camp stoves and lanterns. This is a cleaner gas to use as you cannot spill it. However it can leak from the cylinder if used improperly or left open.
Both gasses are dangerous when misused and should only be used in the manner they were designed for.
What is a good price for campers?
However much you want it to be. I have gone camping for a week and not spent a cent. I have also gone camping and spent more than I would have at a luxury resort. It all depends on what, when and how you will be doing it. Camping is a great adventure. AS in life, the cost is up to you. We had a large tent with three rooms within it. It was $10 to go to a state park for one night. They usually have showers, groceries, laundry, trash cans, trials to hike on, and on.... You can hike in your neighborhood or literally at 12,000 feet on a pass going over the Rocky Mountains watching the clouds float by 'below' you. Or you can go to a campground with nothing but a flat spot and you're on your own. Buy a small pup-tent for $25 and see if you enjoy it, choosing the right time of year for your area of course. If you're a weenie and complain when a mosquito bites your butt you should go home! If you enjoy the smell of stale clothes, mysterious animal noises in the night, bugs in your food, the smell of campfires, and soggy blankets when you discover that your tent has a hole in it 'after the storm' - congratulations - U R a camper! I'll list the national parks and some historical sites below. If you do nothing else but go to these places, for the rest of your life, you will be a better person than most for it. Write to the nearest national park to you and ask them to send you a U.S. National Park System Map with all the national park addresses on the back. When you get it, turn it over, and write to a few national parks, asking for maps, hiking trial maps, and brochures about their park - you'll see all kinds of wonderful things to go visit. Jeff Vincent, CML, MA - President - Forty Foot Club. Support our national park system and it will reward you beyond anything else you ca do in your life! Just go to: nps.gov and it will list all the hundreds of parks. From there U can e-mail or write once you select a park. If you'd rather write: Grand Canyon National Park, POB 129, Grand Canyon, AZ 86023 -or- Yosemite National Park, POB 577, Yosemite National park, CA 95389 Pick one of the following parks near you and take lots of mosquito spray! Abraham Lincoln Birthplace Acadia Adams African Burial Ground Agate Fossil Beds Ala Kahakai Alagnak Alaska Public Lands Alcatraz Island Aleutian World War II Alibates Flint Quarries Allegheny Portage Railroad American Memorial Amistad Anacostia Andersonville Andrew Johnson Aniakchak Antietam Apostle Islands Appalachian Appomattox Court House Arches Arkansas Post Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial Assateague Island Augusta Canal Aztec Ruins Badlands Baltimore-Washington Bandelier Bent's Old Fort Bering Land Bridge Big Bend Big Cypress Big Hole Big South Fork Big Thicket Bighorn Canyon Biscayne Black Canyon Of The Gunnison Blackstone River Valley Blue Ridge Blue Ridge Bluestone Booker T Washington Boston Boston African American Boston Harbor Islands Brices Cross Roads Brown V Board Of Education Bryce Canyon Buck Island Reef Buffalo Cabrillo California Canaveral Cane River Cane River Creole Canyon De Chelly Canyonlands Cape Cod Cape Hatteras Cape Henry Memorial Cape Krusenstern Cape Lookout Capitol Hill Parks Capitol Reef Captain John Smith Chesapeake Capulin Volcano Carl Sandburg Home Carlsbad Caverns Carter G. Woodson Home Casa Grande Ruins Castillo De San Marcos Castle Clinton Catoctin Mountain Cedar Breaks Cedar Creek & Belle Grove Central High School Chaco Culture Chamizal Channel Islands Charles Pinckney Chattahoochee River Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network Chickamauga & Chattanooga Chickasaw Chiricahua Christiansted City Of Rocks Clara Barton Claude Moore Colonial Farm Colonial Colorado Congaree Constitution Gardens Coronado Cowpens Crater Lake Craters Of The Moon Cumberland Gap Cumberland Island Curecanti Cuyahoga Valley David Berger Dayton Aviation Heritage De Soto Death Valley Delaware Delaware & Lehigh Delaware Water Gap Denali Deshler-Morris House Devils Postpile Devils Tower Dinosaur Dry Tortugas Ebey's Landing Edgar Allan Poe Edison Effigy Mounds Eisenhower El Camino Real de Los Tejas El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro El Malpais El Morro Eleanor Roosevelt Ellis Island Erie Canalway Essex Eugene O'Neill Everglades Federal Hall Fire Island First Ladies Flight 93 Florissant Fossil Beds Ford's Theatre Fort Bowie Fort Caroline Fort Davis Fort Donelson Fort Dupont Park Fort Foote Fort Frederica Fort Laramie Fort Larned Fort Matanzas Fort McHenry Fort Moultrie Fort Necessity Fort Point Fort Pulaski Fort Raleigh Fort Scott Fort Smith Fort Stanwix Fort Sumter Fort Union Fort Union Trading Post Fort Vancouver Fort Washington Fossil Butte Franklin Delano Roosevelt Frederick Douglass Frederick Law Olmsted Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania Friendship Hill Gates Of The Arctic Gateway Gauley River General Grant George Mason George Rogers Clark George Washington George Washington Birthplace George Washington Carver Gettysburg Gila Cliff Dwellings Glacier Glacier Bay Glen Canyon Glen Echo Gloria Dei Church Golden Gate Golden Spike Governors Island Grand Canyon Grand Portage Grand Teton Grant-Kohrs Ranch Great Basin Great Egg Harbor River Great Falls Great Sand Dunes Great Smoky Mountains Green Springs Greenbelt Guadalupe Mountains Guilford Courthouse Gulf Islands Hagerman Fossil Beds Haleakala Hamilton Grange Hampton Harmony Hall Harpers Ferry Harry S Truman Hawaii Volcanoes Herbert Hoover Hohokam Pima Home Of Franklin D Roosevelt Homestead Hopewell Culture Hopewell Furnace Horseshoe Bend Hot Springs Hovenweep Hubbell Trading Post Hudson River Valley Ice Age Independence Indiana Dunes Inupiat Heritage Center Isle Royale James A Garfield Jamestown Jean Lafitte Jefferson Jewel Cave Jimmy Carter John D Rockefeller Jr John Day Fossil Beds John Ericsson John F Kennedy John Muir Johnstown Flood Joshua Tree Juan Bautista de Anza Kalaupapa Kaloko-Honokohau Katmai Kenai Fjords Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens Kennesaw Mountain Keweenaw Kings Canyon Kings Mountain Klondike Gold Rush Klondike Gold Rush - Seattle Unit Knife River Indian Villages Kobuk Valley Korean War Veterans Lackawanna Lake Chelan Lake Clark Lake Mead Lake Meredith Lake Roosevelt Lassen Volcanic Lava Beds Lewis & Clark Lewis and Clark Lincoln Lincoln Boyhood Lincoln Home Little Bighorn Battlefield Little River Canyon Longfellow Lowell Lower Delaware Lower East Side Tenement Museum Lyndon B Johnson Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac Maggie L Walker Maine Acadian Culture Mammoth Cave Manassas Manhattan Sites Manzanar Marsh - Billings - Rockefeller Martin Luther King Jr Martin Van Buren Mary McLeod Bethune Council House Meridian Hill Mesa Verde Minidoka Internment Minute Man Minuteman Missile Mississippi Missouri Mojave Monocacy Montezuma Castle Moores Creek Mormon Pioneer Morristown Motor Cities Mount Rainier Mount Rushmore Muir Woods Natchez Natchez Trace Natchez Trace National Aviation National Capital Parks-East National Mall National Mall & Memorial Parks National Park of American Samoa National Parks of New York Harbor National World War II Natural Bridges Navajo New Bedford Whaling New Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail Route New Jersey Pinelands New Orleans Jazz New River Gorge Nez Perce Nicodemus Ninety Six Niobrara Noatak North Cascades North Country Obed Ocmulgee Oil Region Oklahoma City Old Post Office Tower Old Spanish Olympic Oregon Oregon Caves Organ Pipe Cactus Overmountain Victory Oxon Cove Park & Oxon Hill Farm Ozark Padre Island Palo Alto Battlefield Parashant Path of Progress Pea Ridge Pecos Peirce Mill Pennsylvania Avenue Perry's Victory & International Peace Petersburg Petrified Forest Petroglyph Pictured Rocks Pinnacles Pipe Spring Pipestone Piscataway Point Reyes Pony Express Port Chicago Naval Magazine Potomac Heritage Poverty Point President's Park (White House) Presidio of San Francisco Prince William Forest Pu`uhonua O Honaunau Puukohola Heiau Quinebaug & Shetucket Rivers Valley Rainbow Bridge Redwood Richmond Rio Grande Rivers Of Steel Rock Creek Rocky Mountain Roger Williams Roosevelt Campobello Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front Ross Lake Russell Cave Sagamore Hill Saguaro Saint Croix Saint Croix Island Saint Paul's Church Saint-Gaudens Salem Maritime Salinas Pueblo Missions Salt River Bay San Antonio Missions San Francisco Maritime San Juan San Juan Island Sand Creek Massacre Santa Fe Santa Monica Mountains Saratoga Saugus Iron Works Schuylkill River Valley Scotts Bluff Selma To Montgomery Sequoia & Kings Canyon Sewall-Belmont House Shenandoah Shiloh Sitka Sleeping Bear Dunes South Carolina Springfield Armory Statue Of Liberty Steamtown Stones River Suitland Sunset Crater Volcano Tallgrass Prairie Tennessee Civil War Thaddeus Kosciuszko The Old Stone House Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Theodore Roosevelt Island Thomas Jefferson Thomas Stone Timpanogos Cave Timucuan Tonto Touro Synagogue Trail Of Tears Tumacácori Tupelo Tuskegee Airmen Tuskegee Institute Tuzigoot U S S Arizona Ulysses S Grant Upper Delaware Valley Forge Vanderbilt Mansion Vicksburg Vietnam Veterans Virgin Islands Virgin Islands Coral Reef Voyageurs Walnut Canyon War In The Pacific Washington Washita Battlefield Weir Farm Wheeling Whiskeytown White Sands Whitman Mission William Howard Taft Wilson's Creek Wind Cave Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts Women's Rights World War II Memorial Wrangell - St Elias Wright Brothers Wupatki Yellowstone Yorktown Yosemite Yucca House Yukon - Charley Rivers Yuma Crossing Zion Abraham Lincoln Birthplace Acadia Adams African Burial Ground Agate Fossil Beds Ala Kahakai Alagnak Alaska Public Lands Alcatraz Island Aleutian World War II Alibates Flint Quarries Allegheny Portage Railroad American Memorial Amistad Anacostia Andersonville Andrew Johnson Aniakchak Antietam Apostle Islands Appalachian Appomattox Court House Arches Arkansas Post Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial Assateague Island Augusta Canal Aztec Ruins Badlands Baltimore-Washington Bandelier Bent's Old Fort Bering Land Bridge Big Bend Big Cypress Big Hole Big South Fork Big Thicket Bighorn Canyon Biscayne Black Canyon Of The Gunnison Blackstone River Valley Blue Ridge Blue Ridge Bluestone Booker T Washington Boston Boston African American Boston Harbor Islands Brices Cross Roads Brown V Board Of Education Bryce Canyon Buck Island Reef Buffalo Cabrillo California Canaveral Cane River Cane River Creole Canyon De Chelly Canyonlands Cape Cod Cape Hatteras Cape Henry Memorial Cape Krusenstern Cape Lookout Capitol Hill Parks Capitol Reef Captain John Smith Chesapeake Capulin Volcano Carl Sandburg Home Carlsbad Caverns Carter G. Woodson Home Casa Grande Ruins Castillo De San Marcos Castle Clinton Catoctin Mountain Cedar Breaks Cedar Creek & Belle Grove Central High School Chaco Culture Chamizal Channel Islands Charles Pinckney Chattahoochee River Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network Chickamauga & Chattanooga Chickasaw Chiricahua Christiansted City Of Rocks Clara Barton Claude Moore Colonial Farm Colonial Colorado Congaree Constitution Gardens Coronado Cowpens Crater Lake Craters Of The Moon Cumberland Gap Cumberland Island Curecanti Cuyahoga Valley David Berger Dayton Aviation Heritage De Soto Death Valley Delaware Delaware & Lehigh Delaware Water Gap Denali Deshler-Morris House Devils Postpile Devils Tower Dinosaur Dry Tortugas Ebey's Landing Edgar Allan Poe Edison Effigy Mounds Eisenhower El Camino Real de Los Tejas El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro El Malpais El Morro Eleanor Roosevelt Ellis Island Erie Canalway Essex Eugene O'Neill Everglades Federal Hall Fire Island First Ladies Flight 93 Florissant Fossil Beds Ford's Theatre Fort Bowie Fort Caroline Fort Davis Fort Donelson Fort Dupont Park Fort Foote Fort Frederica Fort Laramie Fort Larned Fort Matanzas Fort McHenry Fort Moultrie Fort Necessity Fort Point Fort Pulaski Fort Raleigh Fort Scott Fort Smith Fort Stanwix Fort Sumter Fort Union Fort Union Trading Post Fort Vancouver Fort Washington Fossil Butte Franklin Delano Roosevelt Frederick Douglass Frederick Law Olmsted Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania Friendship Hill Gates Of The Arctic Gateway Gauley River General Grant George Mason George Rogers Clark George Washington George Washington Birthplace George Washington Carver Gettysburg Gila Cliff Dwellings Glacier Glacier Bay Glen Canyon Glen Echo Gloria Dei Church Golden Gate Golden Spike Governors Island Grand Canyon Grand Portage Grand Teton Grant-Kohrs Ranch Great Basin Great Egg Harbor River Great Falls Great Sand Dunes Great Smoky Mountains Green Springs Greenbelt Guadalupe Mountains Guilford Courthouse Gulf Islands Hagerman Fossil Beds Haleakala Hamilton Grange Hampton Harmony Hall Harpers Ferry Harry S Truman Hawaii Volcanoes Herbert Hoover Hohokam Pima Home Of Franklin D Roosevelt Homestead Hopewell Culture Hopewell Furnace Horseshoe Bend Hot Springs Hovenweep Hubbell Trading Post Hudson River Valley Ice Age Independence Indiana Dunes Inupiat Heritage Center Isle Royale James A Garfield Jamestown Jean Lafitte Jefferson Jewel Cave Jimmy Carter John D Rockefeller Jr John Day Fossil Beds John Ericsson John F Kennedy John Muir Johnstown Flood Joshua Tree Juan Bautista de Anza Kalaupapa Kaloko-Honokohau Katmai Kenai Fjords Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens Kennesaw Mountain Keweenaw Kings Canyon Kings Mountain Klondike Gold Rush Klondike Gold Rush - Seattle Unit Knife River Indian Villages Kobuk Valley Korean War Veterans Lackawanna Lake Chelan Lake Clark Lake Mead Lake Meredith Lake Roosevelt Lassen Volcanic Lava Beds Lewis & Clark Lewis and Clark Lincoln Lincoln Boyhood Lincoln Home Little Bighorn Battlefield Little River Canyon Longfellow Lowell Lower Delaware Lower East Side Tenement Museum Lyndon B Johnson Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac Maggie L Walker Maine Acadian Culture Mammoth Cave Manassas Manhattan Sites Manzanar Marsh - Billings - Rockefeller Martin Luther King Jr Martin Van Buren Mary McLeod Bethune Council House Meridian Hill Mesa Verde Minidoka Internment Minute Man Minuteman Missile Mississippi Missouri Mojave Monocacy Montezuma Castle Moores Creek Mormon Pioneer Morristown Motor Cities Mount Rainier Mount Rushmore Muir Woods Natchez Natchez Trace Natchez Trace National Aviation National Capital Parks-East National Mall National Mall & Memorial Parks National Park of American Samoa National Parks of New York Harbor National World War II Natural Bridges Navajo New Bedford Whaling New Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail Route New Jersey Pinelands New Orleans Jazz New River Gorge Nez Perce Nicodemus Ninety Six Niobrara Noatak North Cascades North Country Obed Ocmulgee Oil Region Oklahoma City Old Post Office Tower Old Spanish Olympic Oregon Oregon Caves Organ Pipe Cactus Overmountain Victory Oxon Cove Park & Oxon Hill Farm Ozark Padre Island Palo Alto Battlefield Parashant Path of Progress Pea Ridge Pecos Peirce Mill Pennsylvania Avenue Perry's Victory & International Peace Petersburg Petrified Forest Petroglyph Pictured Rocks Pinnacles Pipe Spring Pipestone Piscataway Point Reyes Pony Express Port Chicago Naval Magazine Potomac Heritage Poverty Point President's Park (White House) Presidio of San Francisco Prince William Forest Pu`uhonua O Honaunau Puukohola Heiau Quinebaug & Shetucket Rivers Valley Rainbow Bridge Redwood Richmond Rio Grande Rivers Of Steel Rock Creek Rocky Mountain Roger Williams Roosevelt Campobello Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front Ross Lake Russell Cave Sagamore Hill Saguaro Saint Croix Saint Croix Island Saint Paul's Church Saint-Gaudens Salem Maritime Salinas Pueblo Missions Salt River Bay San Antonio Missions San Francisco Maritime San Juan San Juan Island Sand Creek Massacre Santa Fe Santa Monica Mountains Saratoga Saugus Iron Works Schuylkill River Valley Scotts Bluff Selma To Montgomery Sequoia & Kings Canyon Sewall-Belmont House Shenandoah Shiloh Sitka Sleeping Bear Dunes South Carolina Springfield Armory Statue Of Liberty Steamtown Stones River Suitland Sunset Crater Volcano Tallgrass Prairie Tennessee Civil War Thaddeus Kosciuszko The Old Stone House Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Theodore Roosevelt Island Thomas Jefferson Thomas Stone Timpanogos Cave Timucuan Tonto Touro Synagogue Trail Of Tears Tumacácori Tupelo Tuskegee Airmen Tuskegee Institute Tuzigoot U S S Arizona Ulysses S Grant Upper Delaware Valley Forge Vanderbilt Mansion Vicksburg Vietnam Veterans Virgin Islands Virgin Islands Coral Reef Voyageurs Walnut Canyon War In The Pacific Washington Washita Battlefield Weir Farm Wheeling Whiskeytown White Sands Whitman Mission William Howard Taft Wilson's Creek Wind Cave Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts Women's Rights World War II Memorial Wrangell - St Elias Wright Brothers Wupatki Yellowstone Yorktown Yosemite Yucca House Yukon - Charley Rivers Yuma Crossing Zion
What energy is being emitted from a flashlight?
The chemical energy stored in batteries gets transformed sets into electrical energy through the wires. This then gets transformed into light energy that you see.
Can you ski in NH in November?
Yes. Depending on weather Araphoe Basin, Loveland and sometimes Keystone open up as early as October but certainly by early November. It is a limited offering but they are open nevertheless. Most Colorado ski resorts are open by Thanksgiving.
Do you need a permit for camping at a park?
Yes . Well kind of .you would one in the majority of places
What do you sleep in when you go camping?
It all depends on what time of year you are going and what type of terrain you will be camping in. If you are going in the Autumn/Winter months, I recommend a 0 degree mummy style bag. If you are going in the spring/summer months, I recommend a lighter, open sleeping bag. If you are sleeping on the ground, you might want to bring a sleeping pad to make the ground a bit dryer, warmer, and softer. If you are sleeping on a cot, no extra support is needed.
How many tent pegs are needed for a standard 4 man tent?
- if it is four man tent or four tent well probably in one tent there are two people or three that can be on a ten so if its four tent just multiply 3x4 if it will be three person in a tent but if it is only 2 person in tent so you can multiply it by 2x4 so just multiply it so that you will know the answer :)
What would be the best breakfast while camping?
There are two types of camping: "Car Camping' and "Backpacking camping' the food you will eat on your camping trip (including breakfast) depends on which you are doing. Car camping means driving your car up to a campsite parking it and setting up your tent...backpacking camping refers to any type of camping in which you will be traveling away from your vehicle whether it is only a couple hours away or days. For Car camping you can take pretty much anything to eat as you will be able to have cooler and plenty of space to store food. For backpacking camping, however, most of the food you will buy will have to be light, fit relatively well in your pack, provide not just a quick fix but also give you the energy your body needs for hiking and for staying warm. This type of food also needs to be practical...while you can lug a stove etc.. with you most people don't want to wake up the morning after a hike to cook breakfast...especially if the weather isn't behind conducive to cheerful camper behavior. For breakfasts specifically I would suggest starting with something simple that can be eaten either on the go or if rain/weather doesn't permit a fire/stove to be used: Granola bars...ones high in fiber and protein and low on the sugar (this will give you energy and not simply a sugar rush that will leave you feeling exhausted), fruit that will keep...such as an apple or a banana My personal favorite breakfast while camping is an old American tradition! I heat water (either a stove or fire) and I pour it (not boiling mind you but warm) into an individual pout of oatmeal...not a lot of water...just enough to moisten the powder....and then perhaps adding some flavoring like dried apple slices or a bit of hot chocolate powder However, I am also a huge fan of granola bars...they're not fancy but they keep you from starving and provide good energy! Happy camping!
When did camping become popular?
Camping has been around for as long as people have been around. However, all the way back then, it was called living, since they already had to live off of the land. Camping for recreation probably didn't begin until there were more advanced civilizations and larger cities. It's nearly impossible to determine the exact time recreational camping came around.
Where can you get assembly instructions for a academy Broadway camping tent?
Manual for academy broadway#209
How do you keep bees away from a campsite?
One answer might be found in the records left by old time bee hunters. Rather than set up hives and raise domestic bees, rural folk used to hunt beehives. They would catch a few honey bees and mark them somehow, like a light dusting of flour, or some other way of making them stand out. Then they would release them one at a time, and try to follow them back to their honey tree. When released, the bee will usually make a complete circle or two and then make a beeline for home. Binoculars and several marked bees make this possible, unless you have really sharp eyes. A compass might come in handy, the Silva type. That way you can choose a landmark on the bee's path and go around obstacles like a swamp or a yard with a few pit bulls in it. Once you find the hive or nest, then you can decide what to do about it. Personally, honey bees and bumble bees seem pretty harmless and well mannered to me. If you don't mess with them, they normally won't mess with you. Anyway, that's one interesting way to spend an afternoon. Answer You may be seeing carpenter bees - they do not live in groups but the males compete for territories so you may see 3 or 4 males chasing each other around. They are rather large compared to honey bees. The female 'drills' a nearly perfect holes into wood (looks like it was made with a drill bit). I squirt WD-40 into the hole after dark.
As mentioned, sounds like carpenter bees, probably nesting in wood furniture ot tree near pool area.
