What is 'camping' to you?

My partner and I go camping as a means of getting a cheap holiday. It is so much easier to throw the tent and camping gear into the back of the car and just take off. Last summer we had a great week away here in the UK by the coast, out and about all day and back to the tent at night. I have, in the past, taken my little tent to music festivals and other events too.

Where you go in the woods to stay a couple of days, to sleep and eat.... A place where hunters hunt their hunted!

Real camping, to me, is sleeping without a tent and cooking over an open fire. With just a pack of stuff and food 'n water. I wouldn't call this survivalist camping, in my book, it just reminds me of...like how coyboys and the natives (like my heritage) of this country used to live. To me, it's living with nature. With a tent is camping, just not nearly as fun to me. I really miss sleeping under the stars. ^_^ hopefully I can squeeze a few nights before this summer ends.

Camping for me is being in my tent, with my sleeping mat and sleeping mat. I carry my backpack with all my things to a camp site. I like small camp sites most of all. I like to feel close to nature and am happy to camp with very few camp site facilities. When I was in New Zealand I did the Abel Tasman Track. I carried my tent past all the gorgeous looking beaches, crossing a few rivers at low tide and camped in a different location each night. My favorite night was at a camp site for a maximum of 5 tents. It was a perfect setting, right next to the beach. Wow! Then I did another walking track called the Queen Charlotte Walkway. It was a demanding trek and so my backpack was carried by boat and dropped at the next camp site for me when I got there by walking. Day 3 was extremely an challenging 9 hour walk mostly over a narrow ridge way with sea both sides. I was exhausted when I fell into my tent that night. For that trip I had a one person tent that only weighed 1.9kg.

Yes its always nice to get back to the out doors and in touch with our indiginouis roots. Let me know if your ever in the area and want to go hiking backpacking and or camping. yippie. :)

i like going camping up the mountains in a tent and having a fire everynite with friends and family i likechoping wood and throwing knives and taking hikes and just chillin near a lake and go fishing. that is what camping is to me

I had my first camping at the age of 9 and it was Pathfinders' Camp which is similar to Girl Scout. I thought camping was all about sleeping in a tent, competing with other Pathfinders by showing our skills in knot tying, semaphor, bandaging, and drills. When I got to high school it became more fun as we had more activities like Treasure Hunting, Escape and Elimination. Lately, joined a 2 days hike and we had to camp when the night fell. Continued hiking the next day. It was so much fun. Yes we get more intimate with nature and that's the best thing.

We go camping every year at a small campground not to far away. We stay in our tent and cook out, it's a great way to relax and recharge after a hectic week at work, we both work stressful type jobs. The very first trip we took together was camping, and we went on the harley, it was great.

Well when I was a child we started out camping in tents we always had a really good time, then we got a small camper.Now my parents have a moterhome which is really wonderful.But no matter how you go camping I believe it is all the same. I love being outdoors,there is noting that compares to cooking food outdoors, being near nature,fishing,swimming.And just getting away from it all. I am disabled, so I can dot do the survivalis camping, but I still enjoy camping any way that I can.

return back to nature.

My idea of camping is probably too high of a standard. I guess that's what happens when you are in boy scouts. I have done both "tail-gating" and "hike 11 miles in and 11 miles out" situations. For us scouts, it is camping as long as there is fire. It appeals to us greatly.