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Our first camp was in May 2008 we had just bought our first tent, brother-in-law kept banging on about how great camping was so we thought we would give it a try.

We bought a Coleman Cedar Creek which was on offer at go outdoors and a few bits and bats, cooker, table & 2 cheap chairs, cheap airbed and sleeping bags and away we went.

We stayed for one night at the Serenity in Hinderwell North Yorkshire and we were absolutely frozen, we had gone with friends who were seasoned campers and they put us right on a few pointers and although we were cold it didn't put us off.

4 years on we now have 4 tents of various shapes and sizes and enough gear to set up camp twice over, every year we say we don't need anything else, but there is always something that we just need to buy lol

Needless to say we now go camping far more that my borther and sister-in-law do, think we have well and truely got the bug.

What a fantastic thread, there are some cracking diaster stories on here!!

Back in the early 80's I had finished school/college and my 2 best friends and I borrowed a 2 man ridge tent, a sleeping bag each and a single gas burner and set off for Normanby Hall, near Sc**thorpe.  To the proper campsite part? On no no no, in the woods where you aren't meant to camp we found a level patch and squeezed in.  The basic supplies all started with the letter B, bread, beans bacon and beer.  The nights were spent hiking in the pitch black, spotting the meteorite showers, telling ghost stories and putting the willies up each other (not in a Brokeback Mounatin sense!!)  Around dawn we got up and explored the deserted country park, which had a lovely duckpond.  In the early morning sunlight we could see hundreds of fish basking on the surface and we managed to poach several roach of about half a pound each which ended up being baked and spit roasted for breakfast.  It was a bit anarchic, perhaps not behaviour I would condone these days, but god, it was fantastic.  There was no one to annoy, we burnt off a lot of energy and, like most peoples first time, have memories that will last a lifetime.  In many ways it was a bit of a rite of passage, and would I do it again - you bet!!

Quote: Originally posted by Okean on 28/3/2012

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Band camp... Or was that something else? ;-)

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