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Camping
jseal is taking his son's Boy Scouts troop on a camping trip this weekend.....
((I know 'cause he assigned me to do the "strange days" posts in his absence))
I think he might need a few words of wisdom.
Anyone have a few words of wisdom for someone taking a bunch of hormonal teenage boys camping for two nights? Please post these nuggets of wisdom below, so jseal will see them when he gets back!
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02-25-2005, 07:26 PM
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02-25-2005, 07:28 PM
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Learn what poison ivy and poison oak look like....so you don't wipe your hoo-hoo with it.

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Life is too short not to love and be loved....preferably multiple times in one night.
I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them. ~ Jay McInerney
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02-25-2005, 07:29 PM
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02-25-2005, 07:49 PM
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Where there are boys and beans there should be adults smart enough to have an open air flap close by.
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02-25-2005, 08:04 PM
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02-25-2005, 08:04 PM
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and avoid their shoes and feet at all cost
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02-25-2005, 08:06 PM
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Let's not forget the pet frogs that wander in the night. LOL
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02-25-2005, 08:13 PM
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Dont know if this applies to boys per say- but here's my advice-
Never sleep with your mouth open! You never know what's gonna crawl in!
( I speak from experience!) 
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02-25-2005, 08:44 PM
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No advice but good luck and I hope you come back with your sanity intact. 
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02-25-2005, 09:03 PM
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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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02-25-2005, 10:15 PM
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Take a good Snip call and extra heavy capture bags.
Why do I keep getting these images? 
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02-25-2005, 10:37 PM
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02-26-2005, 12:47 AM
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yada, yada, yada
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*take some waterproofing spray (ie Campguard) and use it liberally
*feed em heavy...so they might get sleepy and give you a chance for a decent night sleep
*take a waterproof bag and some cord to make a "Bear Bag". Put your food in it, then throw the rope over a tree limb and hoist the bag off the ground to keep critters out of it.
*take extra water and leave the soda (caffeine) at home
*if it's still cold forget the cot. Instead, opt for a good sleeping mat and sleeping bag to sleep on. The airflow around and under a cot will make you colder.
*take enough cash for a hotel room(s) just in case
*don't drink the sparkling clear water from the creek...trust me...a beaver just used it as a toilet not more than a minute or two before you go to take a sip
*camp fire eclairs are AWESOME! Take some pillsbury crescent rolls, chocolate frosting, some pudding cups and a 1" wooden dowel. Unroll some of the crescent roll dough and wrap around the end of the dowel so it covers the end. Toast it over the camp fire until cooked. Let it cool a bit then pull the dough off. Spoon in some pudding and then frost the top with icing.
*pack extra socks
*forget the cologne unless you like small things with more legs than you
*splurge on the first aid kit....guaranteed one of the little buggers is going to do something stupid
*toilet paper is your friend...poison ivy is not
*get an army entrenching tool from your local surplus store. It's a small shovel that folds up. Good for digging, leveling your tent site, even chopping (one side is sharpened). Real handy.
*speaking of digging, dig a small trench around the base of your tent and then one that runs from that away from the tent and down hill, that way if it rains the water will follow the trench away from the tent instead of pooling underneath it
*waterless hand sanitizer is wonderful
Good luck and have fun!
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02-26-2005, 07:10 AM
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Waterproof matches, paraffin based fire starters ( paraffin, beeswax and real cotton wool which only need the spark off a flint to burn), lots of toilet paper (which acts as
firestarter and many other things), several 8' x 12' disposable plastic sheets (to be disposed of when you get back) and bright sunny warm weather.
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