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Spring is here and I bring up this topic every year- so just humor me...

chubbyalaskagriz

chubbyalaskagriz

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CAMPING season will soon arrive!

Any fellow outdoorsy types?

I grew-up tent-camping at nearby Spring Lake and up at Starved Rock State Forest here in Illinois. We also camped in the Ozarks and all over the West. My fav places out west as a kid were the Tetons and Big Horn Mountains of South Dakota/Wyoming. And Cripple Creek, CO.

Best vacation I ever took was when we rented a motor home in Alaska when my Dad came up to visit for a month. We had the time of our lives seeing just about every corner of the state.

Foods we always pack when camping: PB&J, s'mores makin's, popcorn, watermelon, fixin's for stream-side fish cookin', cb hash, dinty moore beef stew, canned chicken, canned tamales, canned chicken & dumplin's, real potatoes, instant potatoes for camp-fire skillet sheperd's pie, canned fruit pie filling and crumb-topping for camp-fire skillet crumbles...
 
Kevin, when I was young, We camped out almost all the time. We hunted and fished a lot. We really didn't pack anything special. Lard, cornmeal, flour and potatoes. Maybe some bacon. But we all ways eat what we killed or caught. I loved it. CF:)
 
I tell ya- nothing beats bacon & eggs, nor fresh-caught fish of any find cooked in a skillet over a campfire!

I was once a camping-phobe. But I developed a real taste for it and now I look forward to being in the outdoors for a few days at a time.

If ya get a chance look for the PBS program or book about our nation's fantastic National Parks. So much treasured landspace available and preserved for us all to enjoy! Great State Park systems all over as well! :)
 
camped a lot as a teenager but haven't indulged since the military. Did some camping in the Army but didn't consider it that much fun. Food was C and K Rations. I'm too old for today MRE,s. My son always asks; "Did you guys still shove the rounds down the muzzle when you were in the Army". I'm going to have to do something about that kid.
 
I'm embarrassed to admit that tent and outdoor camping has never been an enormous favourite pasttime of mine. My idea of "roughing it" is to have a black and white tv in my motel room!! But this phobia about sleeping in the wide outdoors is the result of a white-water rafting trip I took with friends many years ago. We rafted down the Snake River and it was breathtakingly gorgeous! We pulled our rafts out at night and built our campsite on the banks of the river. You're all absolutely right - there's nothing known to himan kind that either smells or tastes the way breakfast cooked over a campfire. However, this particular camping expedition cured me of ever doing it again when, on our last morning of the trip, I woke up and found myself with someone (thing?) sharing my bed roll with me! A lovely diamond-backed rattle snake!! Truly, never been so scared in my entire life. Our guide stayed with me and kept me from going off the rails until my "bed buddy" decided it was getting too busy outside the bed roll and decided to move along.....much to everyone's relief!! Now, you couldn't pay me to sleep outside or on the ground!! Not even in a fold-out camper or trailer.....if a wiggley, crawley thing can wiggle into a sleeping bag, it can make it's way into my pop up or trailer, as well!!
 
Katie, Katie, Katie. You missed out on lunch. The Cajun Culture we have in the southern part of our State would have had that snake skinned and in the skillet before full sunrise. A very common bumber sticker around here reads; If it flys it dies - and - If it dies it fries.
 
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