Started camping in the womb! When I was a kid it was cheep and free. Drive out to the mountains surrounding China lake CA. Did a stint in the cub scouts in SanDiego than boy scouts in Virginia beach va. Got to hike the AT a little and loved it. Next I spent 17 years camping all over the world as a grunt for uncle Sam. Now my son is in the boy scouts and his troop goes into the piney woods every month and in between camp outs I take my son on our own trips. That whole time was waisted I now see. I was a tent camper or just a bivy bag. I could have been living it up between two trees and a piece of nylon. One day looking at youtube at alcohol stoves I happened on a shug shug shug shug vid and I was stuck. I've asked the surgeon general to place a warning on his channel. Its like crack. so now here I am looking up prices of Hungarian goose down, laying out 10 yards of nylon making my first tarp. Starting fires in my solo stove. Hammocks are a drug like crack or Viagra. My boy now calls it Cammocking. Camping will never be the same. Thank you all very much. Oh yea I can't forget to blame and thank Derek Hansen. love his book. i just orderd two more coppies for my scout troop. Again thank you all.
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