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When was the last time you went camping?

I'm going camping this afternoon, until tuesday. I'm so excited, I bloody love it!

Oh yay!

I haven't been camping in a long time! I'd love to go again though, it's so peaceful and beautiful in the bush :)

well, we did go camping two years ago in my firend's back garden, but REAL camping? That was about three years ago when me and a couple of mates went up to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival - it was tons of fun, and we got to go back home to a nice field att he end of every day.

Hmm, that's quite a bit of time ago though...must go more often...

it has been too long.....


As a side note, I am in St. Louis, MO and about half a million people are without power since a horrible storm Wednesday night, so it is almost as if they are permanently camping..

Leeds, last summer. Camping's no fun unless you're in a field with 100,000 people on various substances.

Oh yay!

I haven't been camping in a long time! I'd love to go again though, it's so peaceful and beautiful in the bush :)
*tries not to be crude*

I love it so much! Get my little camp chairs out, lanterns, oil burners, camp stove, I just love it all. The last place we went was overlooking the sea, it was gorgeous.

Download, six weeks ago. Great fun. Especially when the people in the tents surrounding you give you weed for free when they're high on coke. Especially fun when you wake up one morning, come out of the tent for a piss, and the first thing you see is a tree on fire.

Not so fun when you wake up at 4 every morning when the sun rises and turns your tent into an oven.

*tries not to be crude*

I love it so much! Get my little camp chairs out, lanterns, oil burners, camp stove, I just love it all. The last place we went was overlooking the sea, it was gorgeous.

Crude? You must be more dirty minded than me :eek: :p

Oh, nice. This thread is making me want to go again. Now. lol. :cool:

well, we did go camping two years ago in my firend's back garden, but REAL camping? That was about three years ago when me and a couple of mates went up to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival - it was tons of fun, and we got to go back home to a nice field att he end of every day.

Hmm, that's quite a bit of time ago though...must go more often...
See everyone loves the camping! Ive been about 4 times in the past 2 months, ha ha, always new and different experiences.

it has been too long.....


As a side note, I am in St. Louis, MO and about half a million people are without power since a horrible storm Wednesday night, so it is almost as if they are permanently camping..
Youve been without power for 4 days! Thats a long time, do things like that happen very often?

Download, six weeks ago. Great fun. Especially when the people in the tents surrounding you give you weed for free when they're high on coke. Especially fun when you wake up one morning, come out of the tent for a piss, and the first thing you see is a tree on fire.

Not so fun when you wake up at 4 every morning when the sun rises and turns your tent into an oven.
Did you employ the official festival drinking rules? You know, a beer before you've stood up in the morning.

Leeds, last summer. Camping's no fun unless you're in a field with 100,000 people on various substances.
I've never been to a festival, and I would dearly love to. Might try for glastonbury the next time around.

Download, six weeks ago. Great fun. Especially when the people in the tents surrounding you give you weed for free when they're high on coke. Especially fun when you wake up one morning, come out of the tent for a piss, and the first thing you see is a tree on fire.

Not so fun when you wake up at 4 every morning when the sun rises and turns your tent into an oven.
Aw LOL burning tree sounds kinda scary. Bit of a rock fan are we?

I've never been to a festival, and I would dearly love to. Might try for glastonbury the next time around.
Good luck - I'm going to try going as a steward with Oxfam. You can get all your volunteer hours done before the festival actually starts, then you get free access to the festival.

Crude? You must be more dirty minded than me :eek: :p

Oh, nice. This thread is making me want to go again. Now. lol. :cool:
Come with meeeeeeeee :D you know it would be awesome if all of us met up to go camping. Can you imagine us all sat around in a circle, there would be so many stories and things to learn about people. It would be great :)

And yes...my mind has been known to be pretty dirty, I apoogise!

Did you employ the official festival drinking rules? You know, a beer before you've stood up in the morning.
Nope. We kept the beer outside the tents in the shade. Fortunately we were far enough away from the paths for them not to be nicked. But the first thing of the day was always a spliff and a barbecue.

Good luck - I'm going to try going as a steward with Oxfam. You can get all your volunteer hours done before the festival actually starts, then you get free access to the festival.
Mmm my friend and her sister did that last year. Worth a shot maybe. I'll be skint by then anyway so I may well do that. Have you been before?

Aw LOL burning tree sounds kinda scary. Bit of a rock fan are we?
Metal and punk. They had to call in three vans of riot police on the last night after Guns N' Roses.

Metal and punk. They had to call in three vans of riot police on the last night after Guns N' Roses.
:eek: I'd be useless at download then. I'm really not into all that kinda stuff. I'm happier with a gentler approach :)

Mmm my friend and her sister did that last year. Worth a shot maybe. I'll be skint by then anyway so I may well do that. Have you been before?
No, I never think it's worth it. I'd have loved to see Radiohead there in '97 (I think it was then), but I'm not really so much into the mainstream rock/pop/indie. I'm considering going to a few festivals across Europe next year - there's a rock/metal one in Serbia, a metal one in France, and then Roskilde in Denmark. Oh, and I want to go to Truck next year as well.

Come with meeeeeeeee :D you know it would be awesome if all of us met up to go camping. Can you imagine us all sat around in a circle, there would be so many stories and things to learn about people. It would be great :)

And yes...my mind has been known to be pretty dirty, I apoogise!

Love to, but you don't live in Australia, do you? :p

It would be fantastic indeed, but rather difficult to orchastrate, I'd imagine...

Lol, it's ok, I've come to expect dirtiness from NSers ;)

Nope. We kept the beer outside the tents in the shade. Fortunately we were far enough away from the paths for them not to be nicked. But the first thing of the day was always a spliff and a barbecue.
You slick bastard. I don't think I could hack smoking that early, it tends to leave me dopey as fuck for hours afterwards. Also, please tell me the riots were because Guns were shit, because otherwise I'll be pissed off at the rock crowd of today.

@New Peeland - you like indie/pop/soft rock-type stuff? I recommend V, Glasto (when it's on) T in the Park, Oxegen (if you can get there) and, at a push, Leeds/Reading festival.

You slick bastard. I don't think I could hack smoking that early, it tends to leave me dopey as fuck for hours afterwards. Also, please tell me the riots were because Guns were shit, because otherwise I'll be pissed off at the rock crowd of today.
Yep, that's exactly why there were riots.

No, I never think it's worth it. I'd have loved to see Radiohead there in '97 (I think it was then), but I'm not really so much into the mainstream rock/pop/indie. I'm considering going to a few festivals across Europe next year - there's a rock/metal one in Serbia, a metal one in France, and then Roskilde in Denmark. Oh, and I want to go to Truck next year as well.
Phwoar, good times huh. I'd be going for the atmosphere I think, meeting people and having a generally good time. I'm not that hot on music, I enjoy lots of different things, tend not to fit stuff into catagories. I either like it or I dont.

You slick bastard. I don't think I could hack smoking that early, it tends to leave me dopey as fuck for hours afterwards. Also, please tell me the riots were because Guns were shit, because otherwise I'll be pissed off at the rock crowd of today.

@New Peeland - you like indie/pop/soft rock-type stuff? I recommend V, Glasto (when it's on) T in the Park, Oxegen (if you can get there) and, at a push, Leeds/Reading festival.
Hmm I think I've been classing Reading as a bit outside my 'zone' as it were. Although a few friends are going this year so I'll have to see what they make of it. It's so bloody expensive. Think Ive got a bit of a hippy inside somewhere, needs a chance to get out :D

Hmm I think I've been classing Reading as a bit outside my 'zone' as it were. Although a few friends are going this year so I'll have to see what they make of it. It's so bloody expensive. Think Ive got a bit of a hippy inside somewhere, needs a chance to get out :D
Yeah, Leeds and Reading have put their prices up over £40 in 4 years, the money-grabbing, exploitative corporate whore-bags. Plus, Reading and Leeds have indied up their line-ups a bit more than usual this year to accomodate all the Glasto people who can't go this year.

Yeah, Leeds and Reading have put their prices up over £40 in 4 years, the money-grabbing, exploitative corporate whore-bags. Plus, Reading and Leeds have indied up their line-ups a bit more than usual this year to accomodate all the Glasto people who can't go this year.
Aren't Slayer playing Carling Weekend this year? That'd be a sight to see.

Yeah, Leeds and Reading have put their prices up over £40 in 4 years, the money-grabbing, exploitative corporate whore-bags. Plus, Reading and Leeds have indied up their line-ups a bit more than usual this year to accomodate all the Glasto people who can't go this year.
mmm poor student :( I'm gonna be skint for the next 4 years, might put aside a festival account. £1 a week or something :D not that that'll get me very far...*realises just how poor shes gonna be forever* :(

Love to, but you don't live in Australia, do you? :p

It would be fantastic indeed, but rather difficult to orchastrate, I'd imagine...

Lol, it's ok, I've come to expect dirtiness from NSers ;)
Budget flights my dear, I'll bring the tent :D I've never been to Australia ha ha.

I do enjoy nature. Something nice about a tent, a fishing pole, a good knife, some matches, some rice, and a first aid kit being all you need to surivive.

I try to go camping 4-5 times a year.

I do enjoy nature. Something nice about a tent, a fishing pole, a good knife, some matches, some rice, and a first aid kit being all you need to surivive.

I try to go camping 4-5 times a year.
It is nice to shread off a few layers once in a while. Nothing to hide behind.

Budget flights my dear, I'll bring the tent :D I've never been to Australia ha ha.

Fantastic! I'll do the food then :D

Aren't Slayer playing Carling Weekend this year? That'd be a sight to see.
Yeah, but they're the heaviest band by far. I think that was more to appease the people who liked the slightly heavier line-up of previous years. That Friday will probably be the best - I mean, Slayer and Pearl Jam? Gods of Rock and Metal, tbh. I'll be attending both, front row hopefully.

@New Peeland - I'm a poor student, too. I'm just out of my first year, no job and dwindling assets, and I had to pay extra for Leeds tickets this year because they sold out so damn quick (and I'm an idiot). Still going though - keep the faith. :D

I do enjoy nature. Something nice about a tent, a fishing pole, a good knife, some matches, some rice, and a first aid kit being all you need to surivive.

I try to go camping 4-5 times a year.

Now you're my kind of camper.
"first aid kit" = bottle of vodka. Right? ;)

Now you're my kind of camper.
"first aid kit" = bottle of vodka. Right? ;)

And a lime. :D

The lime is for staunching wounds, of course. And the vodka for emergency anaethesia (eg amputations.)

Camping is about being in nature.

And if you're with friends, it's very intense. "Being together" in nature is a lot more real than sitting in a room together watching a vid. Serious talking, serious silence.
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_/:) \ __ . <----- me, camping, soon!

Jut got home from camping....had lots to drink and it rained...it was great

I went camping a couple weeks ago in Glacier National Park, which was beautiful

I love camping. I wanted to go on the ARfcom Oklahoma ATV outing, but I don't have an ATV and I couldn't make it.

Now you're my kind of camper.
"first aid kit" = bottle of vodka. Right? ;)
LOL spot on! I have to drown out the noise of kids, its the summer holidays, all the little shits have been set free!

About two weeks ago when I combined a four day music festival with a week long camping holiday in France with a group of mates. Great fun.

When was the last time you went camping?

I'm going camping this afternoon, until tuesday. I'm so excited, I bloody love it!
I love it too, but haven't been able to go for quite some time now. Sigh. My favorite sort of camping is backpacking, preferably in the wilderness, carrying everything you need on your back. Some of the peak experiences in my life have been when I was backpacking. :)

I love it too, but haven't been able to go for quite some time now. Sigh. My favorite sort of camping is backpacking, preferably in the wilderness, carrying everything you need on your back. Some of the peak experiences in my life have been when I was backpacking. :)

I love doing that...two weeks trekking in the Andes in Argentina gave me a love for it.

I only camp when its necessary (last time was at Download festival). I hate camping.

When was the last time you went camping?

I'm going camping this afternoon, until tuesday. I'm so excited, I bloody love it!

If you enjoy it, have fun.

It's not my cup of tea.