"Ruffin' it"

[Sir Frizz]

Right, here's the scoop. I just went on an overnight trip camping in a local park. And all i can say is "Fuck me". The original plan was to use a four man dingi (sp?) to row down stream for a couple of miles and stay for atleast two days. All was going fine until about 15-metres ahead we ran into some incredibly thick plantation. So we battle our way through all that only to find more of the same. We inevitably gave up and decided to scout the area to see if the river would clear up further down. It only got worse. So we then decided to to walk along this path we discovered and see if that led to any other rivers. We couldn't find anything after about one and a half miles so we set camp as it became dark quite quickly. The next morning, sheer 'luck' one of my mates climbed up a tree for the sheer hell of it and just happened to spot a perfectly clear river. It turned out to be too good to be true as we had actually stumbled upon private fishing waters. ://///////// Yes i realise the idea was doomed from the start due to a lack of drink and a major surplus of food.

BUT its the things which happened in between which made it all worthwhile; (seeing as though we all had a similar taste in humour, there would never be any hostile moments). This includes myself deciding to trapse through mud, and sinking in about a foot deep. The ironic thing is...the place we were in was called riverside, but there was a severe lack of any real rivers.

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

After reading that, you can now reward yourself with either breaking down all the flaws in our escapade or give your own experiences camping.

 

[Sar]

It's dinghy, and camping is too full of bugs and crawly things for me ta

 

[Summo]

Gawww, camping. I've been camping all over, me. Lake District, New Forest, Yorkshire, Switzerland, Belgium, Venice, Florence, Greek island hopping, Portugal... each with between 15-30 people. Top stuff.

The most horrible thing was in Venice where a few of us had our first taste of spirits. We each downed 6 doubles in total, impressed by how easily it went down. Of course, spirits hit you in waves, and so six waves later I was found face down, vomitting onto the pavement on Lido Beach, a friend was staggering around, throwing up in a churchyard and another couldn't be moved from the middle of the road. Great days.

Camping in Switzerland (Kandersteg) was phenomenal. In a valley where temperatures get high enough to sunbathe and swim outdoors, completely surrounded by snow-capped mountains THE LIKES OF WHICH HAVE NEVER BEEN SEEN! Fucking cold in tents at 5am, though.

Great days... great days...

This year (if any of us can be arsed to organise it) we'll be going on a barge trip somewhere in the UK, where drink-driving laws don't apply.

 

[Wij]

There's a nice canal in Halifax

 

[bodhi]

Originally posted by Wij
There's a nice canal in Halifax

Can't you talk about anything other than your arse?

 

[dysfunction]

Camping Sucks!

Whoever invented it should be shot!

 

[old.Kez]

Yes, curse our Nomadic ancestors!

 

[Testin da Cable]

heh ingrates camping is brill! I spent my last vacation camped on several different irish hills and it was one of the very best I've ever had

 

[caLLous]

Went camping in Weymouth a couple of years back. We were supposed to walk the 2-3 miles to the camping site (where we had a pitch reserved) with all the tents and gubbins. But we'd all been out on the piss (was a friend's birthday) and it was 4 in the morning, so we decided to pitch the tent across the road from where we'd left.

It took 2 hours for the girls to put the tent up while we tried to get a fire going from freshly mown grass and twigs /). We were determined, but it didn't work out, so we smoked a couple of joints and went to bed in the (really, really poorly erected) tent.

I woke up with my head outside and then I got completely kicked out for making remarks about the state of the tent (it was clinging on for dear life, but it ended up collapsing).

It was great fun though, I think we're planning to do something similar before the end of summer.

 

[Hashmonster]

Originally posted by Summo
Camping in Switzerland (Kandersteg) was phenomenal. In a valley where temperatures get high enough to sunbathe and swim outdoors, completely surrounded by snow-capped mountains THE LIKES OF WHICH HAVE NEVER BEEN SEEN!

i've done that about 4years ago, breathtaking stuff.

I remember going up one of the mountains, and part of it was in one of those single seater chair lifts... my god this thing was rickety - and it started to get very cold going up, bit of sleet and there's me swingy side to side in this thing thinking i was gonna die while trying to put a new film in my camera..

fun days!

 

[Recoil101]

i fuckin hate camping... it sucks alot


























SO WHY THE FUCK AM I GOING NEXT WEEKEND !!!!!!

 

[throdgrain]

Years ago I was camping in a very strange place beside the banks of the river Arun, near Arundel, not suprisingly
All went well, excepting the general wierdness of the place, we stayed there 2 or 3 days, and generally got drunk , got wrecked and rolled around the floor quite a lot.
Sunday morning we get up, dry as fuck from all the beer. We gotta have a drink of water. "I know" says I " we'll have some water from the Arun, it'l be alright."
Three of my mates agreed , but the 3rd, who we'd been calling wildman of the woods all weekend cos of his taking it all far to seriously, says "no no, you got to go downriver a bit , theres a spring".
So anyway, us four ignored him, climbed down the bank and drunk some of the river water, not a lot ,just enough to quench our thirsts a bit. The other guy went off and came back half an hour later.
A few hours later I got home, and started feeling sick. Within an hour I was projectile vomiting all over the place, and was off work sick for four days. Same for all my mates, except, you gussed it, ol wildman of the bloody woods , who was perfectly ok.
Morale of the story, if you go camping with Wildman of the Woods, listen to what he bloody tells you

 

[Trebz]

heh, remind me of when i went hiking in the lakes, really hot day, ran out of water, middle of nowhere..... probably wouldnt have been so bad if it'd been at the *top* of the mountain above where the sheep were grazing....but anyways, i supped outta the stream to quench my thirst....had the worst shits in my life the day after :/

 

[Testin da Cable]

sorry trebz but that really cracked me up
you should have known better!

 

[Munkey-]

only been camping on outward bound courses. had a great time on them. dunno how many times i've mentioned this. but went to the outward bound cetnre down near pattersdale. did camping on a hill above the centre. that night .cracker of a thunderstorm. could see the lightning and thunder was very loud as it rolled down the valley. diddnt notice the rain pouring off me. one of the most profoundly moving experiences in my life.


another time (this time North wales) did the camp and then went to go back to the mini-bus pickup whilst racing three other groups against the clock. we ended up getting very first as we diddnt bring enough water (only our canteen bottle) so we got very parched. then we come across this ickle river running amongst the rocks we were trekking across. temptation proved too great despite warnings that the water could be polluted from the copper in the hill (there were copper mines near). then procceded to return to finding the minibuses. we finally got there after damn near breaking our ankles running down to said buses. it was only then that the course chappy with us told us that we had taken the completley wrong route to the one on our maps


one the lightning one. had trekked about 6 hours before camping around the valley from south of pattersdale. water was again running low and we came across a stream but decided we had enough water. thankfully we did further up the mountain we came to a dead, decomposing sheep lying in the middle of the stream

so let that be a lesson to you all. pack lots of water, and only drink from the source!