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

By Dueep Jyot Singh

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mendon Cottage Books
• Release date: Feb 18, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370606474

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How to Become an Expert Camper

Camping out with Kids and Other Tips and Techniques for Outdoor Survival

Dueep Jyot Singh

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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.

Someone once asked me whether it was really worth it, taking children along on a camping trip, what with the responsibility and everything, but as I was taken on trips, when I was less than six months old – I was restless at night so father, who had to go and inspect his machines, during the night, right in the middle of the jungle placed me in a backpack, and took me along, so that mom could get a good night's sleep!

This is definitely something which a normal parent of today is going to consider horrible, and terrible, because according to them, father was taking the chance with a little baby along. And they could not even bear thinking of the responsibility. What if we were attacked by hunting animals, especially on a full moon’s night and all that?

We were not. That was because