W/NW - Camping

mdarnton said:
From reading this thread I'm gathering that my wife and I missed the message that we are now too old to sleep on the ground! This shot is from last week. Though we did a fair amount of camping in the early 70s we hadn't done any in the interim, and just started up again this summer. I seem to actually be sleeping better on 3.5 inches of air than I usually do in my own bed. Go figure.

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It's not the years, it's the miles that get you.
 
From 1989.
We were camping in Italy/Lago di Bolsena.
Our son was 11 month old.

There was an old French couple on the campsite, tent and everything. Every morning they carried their boat across the road to the lake and spent the day on the water. We admired them.
Now we have almost reached their age and still go camping, tent and everything (+airinflated mattress)...

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From last summer, bike & tent:

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Harry the K said:
From 1989.
We were camping in Italy/Lago di Bolsena.
Our son was 11 month old.
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@Harry the K, does your son still go camping with you, or on his own? I'm hoping my kids will continue a love for the outdoors into adulthood, but we shall see. Just trying to do what I can to cultivate that in their youth.

Dinner near Island Lake, Tahoe National Forest. Taken June 2024.

Nikon FM2n, AI Nikkor 50mm f/1.8S, Kentmere Pan 400, developed in LegacyPro L110 at 1:31 for 5.5 minutes.


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dourbalistar said:
@Harry the K, does your son still go camping with you, or on his own? I'm hoping my kids will continue a love for the outdoors into adulthood, but we shall see. Just trying to do what I can to cultivate that in their youth.

Dinner near Island Lake, Tahoe National Forest. Taken June 2024.

Nikon FM2n, AI Nikkor 50mm f/1.8S, Kentmere Pan 400, developed in LegacyPro L110 at 1:31 for 5.5 minutes.

2024.06.19 Roll #359-08912-positive.jpg by dourbalistar, on Flickr
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Yore doing right! They, your kids, maybe will take adolescence driven outdoor breaks, but you laid the foundation. And it seems they have fun with you, which is most important.
In the year 2000 we family- hiked for one week, heavy backpacks and all. After that week, the outdoor motivation of my sons was diminished. Our mistake! Now they don´t mind outdoor activities, but stick to their own interests. For a couple of years they parcoured a lot, the acrobatic urban thing....
 
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As a kid growing up in rural Illinois I never went camping. Later on my family moved to Texas and I eventually wound up at Texas Tech University. Tech had a great program where for $25 per student they outfitted a small group us with backpacks, tents and assigned us with a guide who drove us to neighboring New Mexico and took us up into the Sangre De Cristo Mountains located Northeast of Santa Fe. That was my first camping experience and it was awesome.

A few years later I was working in the Dallas area and discovered that a few of my coworker friends had an interest in doing some backpacking. So I organized the trip, taking them to that same area I had visited during college. We all had a great time. This photo is from that trip. Here my buddy Tony and I had scrambled up one of the many peaks in the area specifically to grab some photos of us and the surrounding area. My apologies for the crude “picture of a picture”, but every time I dig this out and look at it, it brings back such great memories. If I can ever locate my slides from either of these trips I’ll scan a few of them and post ‘em here.

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