How to Become an Expert Camper: Camping Out with Kids and Other Tips and Techniques for Outdoor Survival

Table of Contents

Introduction
Equipment
Clothing
Socks
Hat or head covering
Choice of Sleeping Bag – Making up Your Bed
Choice of Tent
Tarpaulin tent
Bivouac tent
Pegging out your Tent Tips
Recognizing Weather Changes
Making an Emergency Raincoat
A Fire Which Lasts through the Night… Making a Rakovalkea
Food, Glorious Food
Making Your Own Billycan
Marching Tips
Easy to Implement Tips
Getting rid of Grease
Night lamp/Beacon
Taking Your Child(ren) Along
Responsibility Given to Children
Leisure Activities to Keep the Little Folk Busy
Conclusion
Appendix
Author Bio
Publisher

Introduction

For all those people who are lucky enough to have spent their childhood camping outdoors, for at least some part of the year, they know what camping is all about, especially in summer. Your family got together, possibly taking the family dog along, got into the car and departed in that direction, a bit like USS ENTERPRISE, but this time going where so many families have gone before.

Your parents knew exactly where you would be doing the camping, because they knew the best camping sites from experience and personal knowledge. Camping for most of us meant swimming, barbecues outside, sing-along around a campfire, with the crickets and katydids chirping away merrily in joyful companionship, and then somebody who had a really wicked sense of humor would start telling eerily terrifying and creepy stories, well chosen to make every single hair and hackles at the back of your neck rise in horror terror and panic!

And then you need somebody to accompany you to your tent, as you creep shivering into your sleeping bag, mouth dry and totally unable to sleep, knowing full well, that nightmares are going to follow you, for quite a while afterwards. Especially the Cat Goddess, the lady in black, the Were tiger, who was once an accursed Egyptian priest and so on!

And you promise yourself, that if you get through the night, safe and sound, you are going to wake up in the morning and strangle that wicked storyteller.

Let me admit, I happen to be one of those human horrors, with a good stock of terrible, horrible tales, garnered from all around the world, since childhood, and half of them were learned in scouting/guiding camps, and then on camping trips with friends, their families, and colleagues.