[sanjuro]

Inspired by the yuppies that scared off Burly, my first camping trip I wore a pair of basketball shoes, had a messenger bag on one shoulder and my sleeping bag on the other. We ended up hiking 3 of the 46 High Peaks of New York.

I remember waking, walking down to the river, and seeing a deer 15 feet away. It was the first wild animal I ever saw in person...

 

[chicodude]

Considering I was like 5, I think I was wearing a barney teeshirt and some LA lights kicks.

 

[Bicyclist]

Same here.

 

[greenhood]

A startrek sleeping bag, a box of lucky charms cereal and a 5th of Jack

 

[PatBranch]

My first time camping was in Big Sur (a school trip). I had clothes (jeans, shorts, t-shirts, a sweatshirt or two, swim suit, etc.), magazines and cd player for bus ride, sleeping bag, maglight etc. I forget what else I brought.

They had food. I think I made my own eggs with everything one morning. I came home with a bag of Serpentine.

 

[kidwoo]

Lsd

.....

 

[.:Jeenyus:.]

No idea, must have been like 5 at the time.

 

[greenchris]

Lsd

.....

my earlier camping experiences always started with a bag of shrooms and a case of beer.

 

[sanjuro]

Lsd

.....

I said first camping trip

 

[Ascentrek]

toys.

 

[blue]

I don't remember, I was probably 3 months old.

I did get foot and mouth disease once or something from chewing on something whilst camping...

 

[elRey]

I was like 4.

I took glow sticks.

And a VHS of Bambi.

 

[stevew]

women

 

[MMike]

A Sherpa and a donkey

 

[Westy]

First non family trip I camped with a hammock and a military surplus poncho. Actually camped that way many times.

 

[dogwonder]

Pixie sticks and mountain dew. My parents loved me.

 

[urbaindk]

I think my parents just always took me camping. I don't remember ever not camping. Through most of high school, I was either camping out on my parents land, or backpacking somewhere. I think I spent more time in a tent than my own bed. Those were the days...

My first back packing trip I do remember. We hiked up to the fire tower at Frozen Head St. park. I was 11. I remember it being one of the worst experiences of my life. I probably weighed all of 75 lbs and was carrying 50 lbs of gear. Mostly stuff I didn't even need. The backpack didn't fit right and rubbed raw spots on my back. I hung my food up in a bear bag that night. The only bears that got in my stuff were the older kids who stole my mint-chocolate oreo cookies. Bastards. It was horrible but I learned how to pack light and kept at it and grew to love it.

 

[antimony]

My first camping trip was only 2 years ago. I brought: toilet paper, warm clothes, bathing suit, 12-pack of Corona, blankets, a million snacks, cell phone... I think the pack for one night weighed about 120 pounds... haha! Never again; I am not the camping type!

 

[krissydog]

Not sure what I was wearing, but I remember I was about 7 yrs old and I didn't bring any toys. I pretended that little rocks were spaceships with my cousins. This was in the hey-day of The Empire Strikes Back.

 

[jimmybong]

i was like 7 or 8. hmmmm....i think i just made sure i had my pocket knife and superman ACTION FIGURE.

 

[dhbuilder]

first non-family trip.
(our family camped alot as i was growing up)

a bamboo bong and zippo.

 

[kidwoo]

I said first camping trip

Oh sorry.....

I meant LSD.


Do you mean MY first camping trip or the first time I went on one of my parents' camping trips.

 

[Westy]

A friend of mines wife will only sleep in her car when camping because she refuses to sleep in anything that she can be stabbed through.

 

[dhbuilder]

A friend of mines wife will only sleep in her car when camping because she refuses to sleep in anything that she can be stabbed through.

guess that means she sleeps sans panties ?

 

[binary visions]

Do you mean MY first camping trip or the first time I went on one of my parents' camping trips.

Was that LSD, too?

 

[kidwoo]

Was that LSD, too?

Nah LDS.

We had to keep talking to the other people, knocking on tents, spreading the good word, wear ties.........pretty annoying.

 

[reflux]

My family and I never camped when I was a kid, nor was I a Boy Scout. Thus, my camping experience upon entering college mounted to zero. Over the past decade or so, I've been car camping about a dozen or so times. The first time I camped with friends, I was wicked unprepared. I think I showed up in jeans and a sweatshirt, a sorry-excuse-for-a-sleeping bag, and minimal food. I was miserable, but loved the camping experience. Thankfully I'm getting better each time I go camping, but if my friends weren't experts, I wouldn't be too far off from Burly's "friends."

 

[eaterofdog]

All I remember is sweating my ass off in a cheap tent with no ventilation. I did bring a machete, ideal for camp defense and for drunk guys to give themselves grievous injuries.

 

[avalanche165]

my 1st camping trip was just 2-3years ago freshman year of college. at first i had my gps handheld, cell phone, laptop, mp3 player, and digi cam when i was packing up, but my friends got a look at put it all back. so i ended up with clothes, swimming trunks, flashlight, sleeping bag, water filter, some canned goods, first aid kit, knife, guitar, african steel drum (shaped like an inverted dome), and a hatchet. we stayed out there for a week it was a bitch and a half. everytime since then has been more and more enjoyable.

 

[The Toninator]

I can’t honestly remember my first camping trip. it was natural for us. I grew up in the country on 2 acres of land BUT our property backed up against a very large private lake (power plant cooling lake) with lots of land. we just cut a hole in the fence and were home free had the whole place to ourselves. On our end of the neighborhood there were only 4 kids my age.
ah the good times we had. I do remember my first camping freakout. My buddy and i were camping on the lot in front of his house across a road on a little pond. we had just watched american werewolf in london AND my dog got out and smelt the food in our tent and tried to get in. Chewing, gnawing barking, FEAKED US OUT. It was a couple of years before we camped out again.

 

[BurlyShirley]

Fishing pole, tent, sleeping bag, matches, mountain dews.

 

[The Toninator]

Ok so now you get me thinking. ok i'm sorry it's off topic i'll stop after this but I had to look it up. I might try to put into words what it was like growing up there.
The red circle is where my house was between the 2 lakes. (parents still live there.)
The yellow circle is the spillway.
The blue circle is where we spent most of our time.

 

[Jeronimo]

Inspired by the yuppies that scared off Burly, my first camping trip I wore a pair of basketball shoes, had a messenger bag on one shoulder and my sleeping bag on the other. We ended up hiking 3 of the 46 High Peaks of New York.

I remember waking, walking down to the river, and seeing a deer 15 feet away. It was the first wild animal I ever saw in person...

Government Issue stuff.

 

[macko]

I don't remember my first camping trip per se, but when I was in the Boy Scouts I remember backpacking 8+ miles with gear such as a huge external frame pack, a monstrous rectangular Coleman sleeping bag, full length therma-rest, and best of all a 3 D-cell MagLite.

It's funny how I could pack so much ridiculous crap when I was 12, 13, 14...but now that I'm 26 I am cutting my toothbrush in half, trading in the tent for a bivy, and trimming off pack straps and gear tags.

 

[renorider40]

Inspired by the yuppies that scared off Burly, my first camping trip I wore a pair of basketball shoes, had a messenger bag on one shoulder and my sleeping bag on the other. We ended up hiking 3 of the 46 High Peaks of New York.

I remember waking, walking down to the river, and seeing a deer 15 feet away. It was the first wild animal I ever saw in person...

That would be kind of weird not seeing wildlife that often. I grew up here so i'm used to it i guess.

 

[boostindoubles]

a sleeping bag, a bag of pot, a case of beer, and a pipe. Hot dogs, ketchup, and buns is what we ate. And we had a hatchet to throw at stuff