camping blunders?

Answer 1

What about them?

Answer 2

When I was eight we were camping in Yosemite Valley and Dad sent me with a bucket to collect some pine cones for the morning fire. "La de da I'm collecting pine cones. Ah, I haz full bucket. But wait, which way is camp? Oops I'm lost in the woods." I knew you were supposed to stay in one spot and await rescue, and I considered that, but decided instead to try to walk out. I went the opposite direction from the campground and ended up at the river. "There's not supposed to be a river here," And Half Dome looked so much closer than I'd ever seen it. I thought. "Hmm, maybe I should go back the other way." So I wandered back, shouting for help, and finally came out way at the far end of the campground and wandered down the road back to our camp where I went into the tent and cried and cried. You'd think I'd have hated backpacking after that, but I still love it and though I've wandered off trail many times and been lost once or twice, I've always found my way back.

Answer 3

35 years ago .Memorial Day Weekend
Baxter State Park ME
I'm hiking from the parking lot at Roaring Brook CG up to the shelter at Chimney Pond
Since it's Maine and it's late May things are more than a bit muddy so I opt to take the longer and slightly higher trail to CP and as a result I don't see a certain small pond on the inbound hike
I spend a couple of days climbing all over Katahdin -just a magnificent mountain.
All too soon it's time to leave
I'm damp and grungy anyway so i decide to take the low trail back to my car
I see this pond ,I know that i have 500 mile ride home and then straight to work and i think that maybe a quick dip would make me feel better.
The water is crystal clear
I strip down to nekkid , stand on a big rock and do a flat dive into the pond
I literally screamed under water
It turns out that if I had seen this pond on the inbound hike , I would seen the ice that was floating in it
Luckily I was 19 so I managed to survive it But man,the effort that it took to get out of the water was incredible

Answer 4

went to devon and dorset for 2 weeks quite a few years ago

devon, excellent, site was fabulous, owners were kind and helpful

get to dorset, during the day excellent, everything is good fun, weather fantastic etc etc. Every night we were there we had huge downpours and gales like you couldnt imagine. 3 days before we were meant to leave we had had enough and packed up. took us 2 hours, a broken tent and very wet car afterwards. We helped somebody else take their tent down after we did ours, 3 of us ended up chasing the tent that ripped out of the ground about 1/2 a mile to catch it after it blew away. Not fun

Another time, went motor racing at donnington, dad marshalling. We go to set the tent, the ground is too soft and muddy to use the pegs. Also one of the tents we brought (there were 5 of us) hadnt dried before my friends parents put it away so 3 of us were sleeping in a damp, mouldy smelly tent for 3 nights.

Answer 5

We were camping on an island in the middle of nowhere. Have the tents all set up, firewood gathered and get ready to light the fire and NO MATCHES! Took about an hour of boating around to find someone who would give up a pack of matches.

Answer 6

this is not so much a blunder but a story of camping in general
went camping with Cub scout group as a Y.L. and was helping to clear up one of the tents and picked up a sleeping bag and out onto my lap fell a pair of pee soaked Pj's needles to say that it was an awkward moment but much more emabarasing for the cub scout whose eyes brimmed up with tears to which i said "dont worry your not the only one"
and like timming i have never seen, a Cub scout from another tent came up to me and said with out emotion "these are mine i had an accident last night"
to which i said to the first cub
"see,"
at which his smile returned to his face!

Answer 7

Ha ha ha... Yes!

Went to Snowdonia about 3 years ago and there were 5 of us sharing 3 tents. We all managed to leave all pegs at home!

We arrived at 2100hrs so there were no camping shops open...

Answer 8

Pitched my tent on a slight incline with the door on the uphill side. It poured out and the water ran down the hill and filled the tent right up.

Answer 9

I live in Sharronville Ohio. I'm a female. So on the OFF chance i ever DO go camping... the worst i'd ever even get the CHANCE to do is accidentally take the TRAILOR off of park and send it into the lake. adn THAT would be the end of the trip. We might sleep under the stars... But LAKE BATHING IS COMPLETELY OUT OF THE QUESTION!!! and by the way... HAVE YOU SEEN THE MOSQUITOES LATELLY??? They're HUGE!!!

Answer 10

Took my horse and dog to horsemen's camp. Couldn't use the saddle because it got rained on, so I decided to ride bareback.
Walked my horse up to the picnic table. Tried to get on. Didn't hoist myself enough and fell down.
Walked my horse back up to the picnic table. Tried to get on again. Didn't hoist myself enough and fell down again.
Walked my horse back up to the picnic table. Hoisted myself up so dammm high that I went right over my horse and landed on my butt in front of everybody.

Answer 11

At bottom of Grand Canyon in campground, someone (not us) failed to realize that tent walls are not soundproof like house walls. They made love all night.