When you go camping do you rough it or?

My family normally tent camps in a campground, but once a year we camp on a friends land. We hang a tarp between two trees just in case it rains and one on the ground and that is our shelter. Their is no bathroom and no electricity it is just us and the stuff we brought. One time a deer actually came down and smelled my husbands head when he was sleeping. He must not of smelled very good because the deer made a noise then walked away.
 
Well .....I like to "rough it" if I'm out alone....many times I have tried to duplicate a scene from the "Andy Griffith Show" ....when he was camping at a lake and cooking his "catch" on a little campfire ..... I've been able to do it a few times ..... I'm a good campfire cook .......
 
When I go camping in campgrounds I usually make it pretty luxurious with a dutch oven, lots of food, comfortable chairs, tent trailer or multiple tents and plenty of firewood. When I hike out to a place to camp I usually want to bring the bare minimum so I really try to rough it. Like sleeping in a tarp instead of a tent, bring noodles and foods that are really easy to cook in water that don't use many dishes or create a lot of trash. It's easy to forget food wrappers you put into your pack during the hike a lot and I've woken up in the middle of the night with raccoons climbing over it. My favorite hike was along the Washington coast line. Sand isn't always the best thing to hike in, but it was really fun. We got stuck in a cove when the tide came in, found a dead whale and you could see almost all of its bones, climbed up cliffs using ropes, and found a lot of interesting things washed up onto the beach that you wouldn't see at a regular beach already picked over by beachcombers. Hiking is more of an adventure, campground camping is more of a relaxed vacation time.
 
Yeah... I am 16 and this year for camp cherokee, I became a CIT (counselor in training). We were doing an amazing race kind of thing and we had to go back into the woods to the cherokee towers. There was a path. But since there had been a tornado (yeah, I'm serious) the week before, the path was blocked by trees. I went around the tree and ended up in the wrong direction. I was lost for four and a half hours. I was leading my group of ten year olds and they were crying. It was awful. The older counselors at camp had to search for us.

But camp is awesome.... :D
 
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