Simple Camping

Cheating tactics for camping competitions and snow in the middle of summer. This podcast features the extremes of temperature and camping hacks. Starting a fire with only one match and debating what to do when your summer mountain lake is suddenly under 6 inches of snow.

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We often neglect the numbers when camping. How long it takes to set up camp, travel, and how many uses our camping gear actually has. The key to simple camping is to use what is needed and remove the roadblocks that keep us from the point of camping - Relaxation and adventure!

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Modern camping is hardly possible without Steel and Aluminum. Camping hasn't always been this way. It took a world war to birth the RV industry and to put these metals within any camper's reach.

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Standing high in the mountains offers a fresh perspective on life. The grand views from the top can make our problems seem so small or unimportant. This perspective of life, the natural world, and the internal self is hard to beat. Even sitting or walking in a park for a few minutes can do good for us physically, emotionally, and mentally. So join Mark this week as he gets high....or travels upward...into the mountains. Not sure how to make that sound like travel instead of a marijuana reference!

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This podcast episode features ideas for DIY Campers. It ends with Mark telling a story of how a young boy was drug into the woods in the middle of the night by animals during a backpacking trip.

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When did people start going into the wilderness for the fun of camping instead of doing it out necessity to sustain life?

In this episode, Mark introduces William Henry Harrison Murray who literally wrote the book on camping for physical and spiritual health. His writing struck a nerve in the urban worker in the 1800s and still does today. There is a desire in the human condition to go camping.

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Our First Episode. In this Podcast, Mark breaks down the freedom that camping is to us today. It isn't just about the 4th of July. Independence day should include the bill of rights but also the ability to travel & get outside!