Diary of a Wolfeman

Because Kylanath asked:

Things to take camping

• Tent
• Rain-fly or tarp for the tent
• Sleeping bags
• Water
• Something to cook
• Something to cook it in
• Fire or something else to cook it on
• Something that doesn’t need to be cooked for when you can’t get the fire lit.
• Something to eat it with
• Socks!! Lots of socks!
• Appropriate clothing
• Sunblock if clothing isn’t appropriate
• Towell. Maybe two.
• Toothbrush and toothpaste
• Painkiller for when you bash your finger pounding in tent stakes. (Booze is good for this.)
• First-aid kit for when you nearly slice off a digit trying to open a can of beans with a bootknife because you forgot the silly can opener. (Booze is not good for this.)
• Something to do in the tent for when the air has only slightly less water in it than the lake.
• Flashlights for those after-dark nature calls
• Charmin so you don’t get poison oak on your tender bits because you improvised.
• A picture of poison oak so you can recognise it, before you improvise.
• A shovel. (Cats bury theirs, you can bury yours.)
• A scary story, a song or other spoken entertainment. C’mon, it’s a tradition.

That may be a bit much for some situations, but over 20 years of camping has given me a pretty good idea. Enjoy!

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