I HATE camping

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Camping is for poor people.

Sadly, this is becoming more and more true. But it isn't actually camping - it is how they live.

Go to any federal/state/municipal campground and you will find families (with children) who are living there. A lot of elderly, too. They may move from site to site or location to location depending on availability but they have no other place to go. It's especially prevalent in warm or moderate weather locales.

As housing and rental costs rise so have the number of people living in campgrounds.

My sister lives at campsites. She works in a very high cost of living area (Aspen). So she can either have a roommate, live an hour from work and have a hell of a commute, or live in her camper at one of the many amazing campgrounds in the Rocky Mountain area.
She makes $75k year (radiology technician), and cannot afford rent (one bedroom apartment) in Aspen as a 50 year old college educated woman with a full time professional job. Sad. But she absolutely loves the freedom of living in a camper.

How is she doing this in winter in Colorado?! Don't a lot of the sites close?!

[Anonymous]

I love camping if 1. Not bear country 2. a peaceful, scenic setting with space and low occupancy. 3. Good weather.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love camping if 1. Not bear country 2. a peaceful, scenic setting with space and low occupancy. 3. Good weather.

I will camp in black bear country, but I don’t think I would enjoy camping in grizzly country- Montana, Wyoming, Alaska…etc. I did a couple backpacking trips in Glacier NP in the past. Great trip, but don’t know if I could sleep at night now.

There are incidents with black bears, but they are very rare. Grizzly incidents are also rare, but they make me more nervous. One thing that didn’t help my bear phobia was reading a book that documented every bear attack in Yellowstone. Fascinating and scary read.

As for camping, I love it.

[Anonymous]

Camping? Been there, done it, not for me.

Happy to spend all day hiking but at night I want a comfortable bed and a hot meal. Lodges all the way!

Doing a 10 day hut to hut trek in Switzerland this summer.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:"It’s not a poor people hobby; it’s often part of the summer orientation at rich kid colleges."

My DS's private and snooty college not only takes the entering freshman on camping trips, it boasts about its amazing collection of outdoor gear that the student's can use for free throughout the year as well as all the outdoor adventures they coordinate for the kids in the nearby mountains and rivers. I figure that's part of what the huge tuition payment is for, and I prefer to pay for that instead of stupid crap like the lazy rivers they have a big state schools.

What school is this?

Sounds like Dartmouth. The Outing Club offers camping equipment and the college owns a lodge/camping area nearby called Moosilake. Even as grad students we had an outing to Moosilake. Dartmouth tends to attract outdoorsy people.

That said my camping days are over. We still have some camping equipment in the attic but it’s time to pass it on.