Tips and Advice

Camping Tip and Advice: A collection of all the best tips and advice on camping and the outdoors. Nothing beats a great tip from someone who knows how to make something easier! Think about a whole reserve of camping tips and advice it’s like being a kid in a candy store! What could be more exciting then learning a heap of fascinating tips that you can put to use on your next camping trip!? Read these articles and gain a wealth of useful and helpful information on camping. Are you stoked?!

16Jan2012
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Family Camping
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7 Tips on How to Pack For Young Kids

After having spent years camping with kids, I have learned a few things that I'd like to share with you. I hope that my 7 Tips on How to Pack For Young Kids camping advice and tips will help you when packing and camping with kids. If your camping trip involves young kids, here are some suggestions to make packing for them more efficient. How to Pack For Young Kids When Camping: 1. All Packed...

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28Dec2011
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Camping Climate
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Winter Camping: Planning and Precautions

Winter camping can offer campers and hikers a wonderful experience. In a tranquil world of white, far away from the crowds, you can enjoy cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, ice climbing and much more. Planning a trip in the winter means spending a good deal of time researching areas and conditions to determine where, when, and how the trip will work. It takes proper trip planning, experience, and...

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04Nov2011
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General Camping
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Metal Water Bottle and Sleeping Bag Warmer

Here's a very quick but very useful tip for any camper to use. This tip is especially handy if you tend to get cold while sleeping at night when out camping. Metal Water Bottle and Sleeping Bag Warmer What you Need: Metal water bottle/s (Sigg bottle). Boiled water Sock/s Sleeping Bag Warmer Instructions: Before you go to bed, boil and purify your water if you are in the...

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01Oct2011
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General Camping
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A Girl’s Guide to Surviving Your First Camping Trip

We’ve all been there. The day our partner or ‘significant other’ tells us they love camping and are whisking us away to the middle of nowhere to live under a piece of tarpaulin for a week. That’s not a good day. Especially for us girls, who rely on electricity to keep us looking like, well, girls. Girl's Guide to Surviving Your First Camping Trip Forget About Your Appearance After...

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26Sep2011
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General Camping, Organized Camping
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Camping Tips for a Safe and Fun Trip

I love going camping! After some trial and error, I have learned a few tips that have helped our family really enjoy our camping trips. Below I will share with you some of my most important and most helpful camping tips for a safe and fun trip. Camping Tips to Remember: Camping Checklist First of all, make a camping checklist of every item you need to take on your camping trip. Nothing is...

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18Sep2011
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Family Camping
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Happy Camping

A very wise George Washing Carver once said , 'I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.' It's the time of the year when the air becomes crisp, the sky displays a deep, powder blue colour and the rays of sunlight that settle on our faces warms the skin more than it does at any other time of the...

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06Sep2011
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Family Camping, How to...
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How to Camp With a Baby

Many of us have warm memories of childhood camping holidays with our parents and siblings. As well as being relaxed, there was always a sense of liberty, adventure and of being one with nature. We never doubted that we would have anything other than a happy vacation, but now that we are grown up and have families of our own, many of us shrink at the idea of sleeping under the stars with our own...

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23Aug2011
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Backpacking, General Camping, RV Camping, Tent Camping
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Camper Species – Types of Camping

Camping - the exploration of the unknown, the rediscovering of nature…the burning of food. Yes, camping is an experience that truly rejuvenates the soul. As a Canadian who lives at the feet of the Rocky Mountains, camping is an integral part of my life. There are many provincial and national parks near my home, and each time I visit them, I notice that there are three distinct types of campers....

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