Comments on: Save Money by Avoiding Non-Essential Camping Gear

By: Alice

Alice — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:28:35 +0000

Both my husband and I grew up in Eastern Oregon with the Wallowa -Whitman National Forest as our backyard. Fishing, camping, hiking, exploring. The skills and tools a kid can learn from these activities are so varied. Hopefully, we gave our kids the same opportunities as we had, and we are looking forward to sharing all that with our grand kids.

By: Jonsky

Jonsky — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:01:47 +0000

There's nothing wrong with taking non-essentials on a backpacking trip. Just don't take all of them and not if you already have something that does the same thing.

By: Sis Kiteri

Sis Kiteri — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:08:09 +0000

Some of the gadgets I have seen at campsites show me that not everyone is interested in avoiding “non-essential” gear!

By: Jim (Sky46)

Jim (Sky46) — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:35:09 +0000

see, you can learn all sorts of stuff by just getting out doors. In my old field of business, it is called the paleo bend, you walk hunched over looking for fossils and other neat things right at your feet we all take for granted. GET OUT DOORS PEOPLE!!! there’s a great world to discover and it doesn’t cost an arm and a leg!

By: Jim (Sky46)

Jim (Sky46) — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:32:40 +0000

For anyone’s info if ever out that way, the trackway is close to a place called Black Mountain Oklahoma in a shallow dried up Upper Jurassic riverbed. In fact it’s listed in a book written by a good paleontologist friend of mine Martin Lockley and is on the cover of his bok “A Guide to the Fossil Footprints of the world.