Comments on: Come Saturday Morning: The Camping Edition

By: DILBERT DOGBERT

DILBERT DOGBERT — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 03:15:50 +0000

San Juan Is in August with my daughter and grand-daughter in my 12 foot San Francisco Bay Pelican sailboat. Will camp at the many state of Washington and DNR island campgrounds. This will be my 5th boat camping trip up there. I did the first in 1977. Canada has the same type camping in the Straits of Georgia. The Barkely Sound area is also available for kayak and boat camping.
Old age and original sin have caught up with me so most of our camping is done with the pickup/camper with the horses. When younger we car camped up and down the west coast and in the Sierras. I recommend trying to get reservations in the Yosemite High Sierra Camps. You can do the whole 54 mile loop around the high country staying in tent cabins, with heat, hot showers, somebody else cooking and clean sheets in real beds. Try also to do the Tahoe Rim Trail Loop too. It is about 160 miles of great trails around the lake. We have done this in stages with the horses. Same can be done on foot if you have enough cars to stage at the next trail head.
We will camp, with the horses, at Jack Brook Horse Camp in the Pescadero County Park and in Henry Coe State Park where we are volunteers.
Our camping season lasts for a long time in the middle of California. We take a break during the rainy season which starts maybe in November and with luck start riding the horses in late February.
The sailing season overlaps the horseback riding season so we have lots of options. Memorial Day Weekend we camped and sailed in the Whiskeytown Sailing Club Regatta.
Thanks for cleaning up the horse poop. We try to educate horse people that others don’t have that same relationship to horse poop as we do.

By: Quebecois

Quebecois — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 20:18:49 +0000

I drove to Oka Park this morning, 40 minutes from Montral. Walked in the woods, took some real nice picture with my new cam. Walking that forest, following that river is a religion for this individual.

I’m a lifelong camper. Got a really nice small tent for four, that will whitstand a few days of tripical storm… Not that we get those often over here. The new foam inflatable inch ans a half deep floor mats make for very comfortable sleeping. We sleep under a goose duvet comforter. cozier than a womb…

Cooking on a wood fire that you kept going through a long day of rain is a reward like few others, beer can chicken to swim for.

PW, enjoy the fresh air, howl at the mooon, count the stars… Thanks

By: Mommybrain

Mommybrain — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 18:52:14 +0000

We go camping a couple of times a summer, usually on some riverbank with our kayaks and rafts tied securely to a tree. Among our usual coterie are astronomers and a hydrologist and it’s always fun learning about the stars and where the river’s going, where it’s been and what’s happened along the way. It’s also a blast watching our kids settle into the river life.

Every year I say I’m too old to sleep on the ground again and every year the call of the wild pulls me anyway.

Have great time, PW.

By: Albatross

Albatross — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 18:10:38 +0000

We camped when the kids were younger, but now that we’re in our mid-Forties we just don’t seem to be able to tolertae a night sleeping on the ground, even with fancy air-filled tent mattresses. Well, and my spouse’s need for a C-PAP machine is difficult to accomodate in the woods.

Last summer we spent five glorious weeks on a home exchange in Germany - this summer we are taking it easy, trying to recover financially from last summer. And the twins have driver’s training. So it will be a busy but quiet one this year, and hopefully next year we’ll be able to take another home exchange.

By: myrtle june

myrtle june — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 17:47:13 +0000

Garage Sale! Catching the late comers :D All the while polishing up my 1953 13ft travel trailer. Already got my four hours of “Saturday Folk” on the radio. Check it out, its local and now streaming Saturdays 6-10am at http://www.radioflagstaff.com/am600/am600.htm

My trailer needs some interior help, but she’s a doll and I can’t wait to get it out in the forest! Already missed one group camp this year…. great music time but I had some bug. Maybe going to camp in a week down Prescott way. Went last year, stepped on a bee or wasp or scorpion who’d holed up in my sandle in the dark. Numb foot points to scorpion :(

Tent camping is great especially since I got an air bed….. oh my what a great difference that makes. Best camp last year was on the banks of the St. Vrain river in Lyons, Co for RockyGrass. Every summer I miss my ‘78 vw camper van, why did I ever sell thaaaaat! So the airbed makes the difference. The little trailer is quite an adventure but perfect for dry camping.

Oooooo more garage sale-ers! Must go sell! :D

By: Scottfree

Scottfree — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 17:17:34 +0000

leaving in a bit for Torreya State Park, NW Florida. 29′ class C RV – no more tents for this old guy but lots of hikes. I’ve been there @ 3 times a month since December. My other spot is Ochlockonee SP (o-clock-nee) for kayaking. Both parks are within 50 miles of Tallahassee – no doubt I will have the park mostly to myself this weekend

By: valletta

valletta — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 17:09:25 +0000

For any of you SF Bay Area folks, you have to try Costanoa, just south of Pescadero. It’s our favorite. You can stay in the lodge with spa facilities, or separate duplex style wood cabins or even these little tent cabins, which I call Martha Stewart goes camping :) check out the site costanoa.com to see pics. The beach is right there, if you hike to the east you end up in Big Basin. Just awesome. They have these “cmfort stations” with great inside and outsie showers, fireplaces, saunas. Really cool. And it just takes us 30 minutes to get there. Highly recommend for camping newbies.

By: Rushton

Rushton — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:59:59 +0000

My summer plans? I’m going to spend two weeks in Hawaii with my family and a couple of my daughter’s friends (one week on Kauai and the other on Oahu). Can’t ‘effin’ wait!!! The rest of the summer I’ll be working like a fiend to pay for the trip (sigh).

By: PunchPrincess

PunchPrincess — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:48:55 +0000

In my world the words ‘habitable’ and ‘campground’ do not co-exist. However, ‘habitable’ and ‘Eggs Benedict’ do quite nicely together.

Have a sunny, happy weekend and whatever you do, do it with sun screen.

Cheers.

By: carolyn13

carolyn13 — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:31:37 +0000

Twisted Martini @ 65

Excuse my ignorance, but what the hell does patchouli smell like?

It smells like a warm and sweet dessert. It smells like touching soft crinkled cotton on a summer’s day. It smells like seeing a flowering red bush and running your hands through it. It smells like hearing the rustling of something wild and shy.

Yeah, another old hippie here, so I just happened to have some handy to sniff.