One of the more valuable pieces of advice I learned the hard way is that if you have sleeping bags along they do not keep you warm if they are wet. To this end, the nylon stuff sack, that most of them go in, is NOT waterproof. So.... we were always told that before we went on the trip we were to take the sleeping back out of the stuff sack, then put plastic trash bag inside the stuff sack, and then put the sleeping back into that. This way you have a waterproof barrier between the bag and the puddle when one of the little kids puts his bag down without looking.

How do I know this is of great importance. When you're one of the adults on the trip, and the kid gets blue lips because you are winter camping and he did not want to tell that his sleeping bag was soaked... he then gets to sleep in your bag (once one of his buddies rats him out) while you get to tend to a nice fire and stay up all night! So... I also recommend that he bring along a good amount of coffee (instant tastes really good when there is no other!).

And for those cases when you just can't find dry fire wood to start the fire one of those "Duraflame" logs works real nice at getting even damp wood to light!

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