We decided to do this site to add some fun to mine and my Dad's camping diary. Basically that's all it is, an online camping trip diary for us. If anyone else wants to read our nonsensical ramblings, your more than welcome and good luck. This site is not meant to be instructional, it's just us having fun.We will show our kit, how we pack, what we think of our various kit. But only what we own, we won't be purchasing kit just to do a review.
We always camp using the 6 P's (not 7 as Dad was taught).
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Let us introduce ourselves.
This was written in 2012.
Baldy is 43 and Squatt and Colabottle's father.
Strider is Baldy's brother.
'Auntie Mini Strides' is Striders girlfriend
'Randoms Letters' is Squatt's and Colabottle's cousin.
Colabottle is 11
Squatt is 9.
Baldy is 43 and Squatt and Colabottle's father.
Strider is Baldy's brother.
'Auntie Mini Strides' is Striders girlfriend
'Randoms Letters' is Squatt's and Colabottle's cousin.
Colabottle is 11
Squatt is 9.
SquattMy first trip camping was when I was 5 in our new big tent and I learnt to ride a 2 wheeler bike.
We have been to the lake district 3 times always to the same campsite. I like it there because it has a big lake and big shop on the campsite, it also has a good park to play in. Daddy took me for the 1st time wild camping in April 2011 in his 2 man tent in the mountains and it was brilliant. I asked Santa for a hammock but Daddy said that I couldn't go on my own so he asked Santa for 1 to. We went camping for the 1st time in them in February 2012. I have joined the Cub Scouts and am looking forward to going on the cub camp soon. UpdateAfter going to cubs for a few months, I got bored because I have more fun on the camping trips with Dad and he teaches me more about camping and using my own kit.
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BaldyI have been camping, hiking or hill walking all my life, and incorporate my love of the outdoor into my work, which can be seen by following the link below. The first time I ever went camping (according to my parents) I was 10 months old. When the kids were born, Squatt and his sister, the camping stopped for a while, I don't really know why, guess other things were a priority. We started again in 2007 when Squatt was 5. I decided to get the whole family into the wild, well, as wild as a commercial campsite in a massive tupperware tent can get. This was 5 star camping, or as some of my friends call it, 'Poshcrafting'. Since then I have become more and more interested in backpacking and wild camping and have managed to reduce the family camping 'pack' size a little and reduced mine and Squatt's pack considerably. So much so that Squatt can carry his own kit. Though I did not start hill walking again, or even walking until 2010 due to the fact that I suffered badly from Gout. Now I can walk and have even started running again, but if I forget to take my tablet in the morning, by that evening my foot will start hurting.
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Colabottle, Strider and Random letters are still to write their 'about us'
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