| Camping Trips and Tips | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hello, I am Micah, a 10 1/2 year old male, from Austin, Texas, USA! I am a proud Longhorn, in a Chevy 4x4! Hook 'em horns! I like to read, love hockey, and love history. Favorite war: Civil and Revolutionary. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Trip - My Camping Experience . . . | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A 14 year old boy (James, who is also in this ring), and a ten year old boy (Dustin). Here is my tip - DON'T DO IT. Sure, go camping, but not in the middle of winter, when it is no higher than 40 degrees out there. Okay, maybe that isn't to cold, but think about this - I have lived in Texas all of my life, except for 4 years. Now then, it's pretty hot down here. And, too, the reason it was cold for me, was because I was literally walking through 2 1/2 feet deep running creeks, three or four times, in less than thirty minutes. I finally get dried off, and what do I do? Get chased through the creek again. We were playing a mix of hide-and-go-seek/freeze tag (mind you, fun to play on three acres). Now then about the trip...I go out there, at 2 o'clock, Friday afternoon - medium rain. Then my friend comes. So then we go to the campsite. We set up his TWO PEOPLE pup tent. Then we put all our equipment in it. We go take a hike, and take shortcuts, and everything, over three acres (it takes us about an hour, going over all the short cuts), then it stops raining. We go back to camp, and work on finishing out the fire ring - we dug about 1 1/2 inches, for the ring, then put two layers of rocks around it. And we work on the latrine (for all you military termless people, that means the bathroom, where you ... you get the idea). Well, James' dad comes, and he brings the grill. We had cold hotdogs, and cooked, burnt hamburgers - here's why one was cold, and the other burnt (as well as the fire story). I took the food - hotdogs. We started to put the wood in our original fire ring. Well his dad sees that there is a tree, at least 5 foot above the ground. So what do we have to do? Build it in an area that is hard to get to. So . . . We use 500+ (2 big boxes of house matches, and about 1 1/2 little boxes), On a fire that does not even start. We use charcoal, dry and wet and green wood, a whole telephone book, dry and wet leaves, About 1/5 of your average size fire starter fluid bottle, and we toss the bottle itself in there, then we get the master - gasoline - a cup of gasoline. We put a washer barrel on top of the fire (I don't know why, but orders of the father...), it melts the sides of the metal barrel . . . anyway, me and my friend were on the one side, and James' dad on the other. He told us to get back. We got back a good yard. He dumps the gas on there, and there goes the forest, so then we're running . . .just kidding! Actually, the flame leapt at least 5 1/2 feet off the ground, and also, blue flames came out of the sides of the barrel - onto Dustin and I's feet. It didn't get us, it didn't even warm up our cold wet soaked feet. :( Anyway, we get the grill going, and we cook those hamburgers until they are burnt - even in the middle. But the reason the hotdogs were cold, wasn't because we didn't try - we even put it at the base of the fire (BLUE flames), and they were still cold. So we had to eat them like that. Too bad . . . Okay, then We finally eat, and then we retire (three people, scrunched up ina two person tent - not good!). Then his dad leaves, and we get out and eat nachos (from Dustin who brought snacks), and talked. Then we really did retire. We were supposed to go on guardshifts. We didn't. Instead we talked. (James, ahem...) Dustin was out cold (literally, also!), and James and me were still talking. So we get up in the morning, and Dustin's gotta go, big time. The reason - 5 cups of hot cocoa, last night. Then, his mom comes and picks him up, 2 1/2 hours before he is supposed to go. No breakfast for him (Bacon, bread, rolls, eggs, sausage, etc)! So then James, and me, and his little sister, go out. Well we find this place, to go climbing. We go back to camp, and get my rope, and go back, and climb. FUN! We climb across three different kinds of walls - rock (where we started a mini-avalanche), and this more vertical rock/limestone, and then we go to something that looks like red clay, but is limestone. How fun! Humph! I climb across it, all's well, I am checking every step, before I take it, and - what do you know, a million dollars worth of pearls! Not. I slip, fall about five foot, and then I take an apporximate 2 foot drop, into a maybe 6 inch creek, full of (hard, mind you) rocks. That was kind of fun, until I fell into the creek. :( Well, then it was time to go home, after a game of seek-and-destroy (the mix of freeze tag and hide and seek). I had fun. So should you, so here are some tips, for having a safe, but fun trip. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Take" tips: | 1. Take a First Aid Kit. All you have to have, is bandages (cloth, band-aids, etc.), and alcohol, etc. 2. Take enough food, that doesn't have to be cooked! 3. Take rope. 4. Take your backpack with you, wherever you go. If it is too heavy, minimize it to the lightest necessities. (learned from experience). 5. Take a canteen (or water bottle), and an extra water bottle. "Do" tips: 1. Do have a spot for fire. 2. Do keep a good ways away from fire, when gasoline is being poured on. :) 3. Do take toothpaste, and all that teeth JUNK, if you are going to stay for more than a week. 4. Do get together a good FAK (First Aid Kit) 5. Try to have an adult to watch the fire, with you. Definitely do tips: BE SAFE!
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