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Summary: Keep a checklist for the full camping experience. Learn hiking tips and other advice on the outdoors in this free video.
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Albert William Hedgepeth Albert Hedgepeth has enjoyed the outdoors since birth participating a variety of outdoor activities. One of his greatest personal accomplishments was when he... read more
Hi, I'm Albert Hedgepath with Expert Village and today we are here to talk a little bit about making a checklist for camping. One of the most important components of planning a camping trip is making sure you have the right resources and the right materials to go where you are planning on spending your trip. As long as you make an accurate list that lists the food, the water, the tent, the sleeping bags, the fuel, the lanterns, the firewood, and all the other components of what you feel like you are going to need while you're on your trip, most of the times is going to end up pretty successful. Some of the major things that you should look at whenever doing that is planning an accurate food menu. Go ahead and look at what your going to eat and what your family is going to need to stay alive. Go ahead and look at the fuel sources you are going to use to cook. Go ahead and look at what you are going to be sleeping on, how cold the temperatures are, what type of tent you are taking and make an accurate list of the materials that you really need to be comfortable while you are there. Playing cards may even come up to occupy idle time, but again, the major thing you need to do is come up with an accurate list with everyone involved of the things that everyone needs to be comfortable while they are camping. If you do that, most camping trips will end up pretty successful.