Wednesday, April 22, 2009

C is for Camping ..

... Alma and I are going camping this weekend at Zion National Park. This is the first time either of us have been camping on our own. Hopefully we'll survive it and it will become a wonderful, fond memory.

We seem to have all the essentials - tent, lantern, dutch oven and cast-iron frying pan, air mattress, coolers. This is the first time trying out the new tent, so hopefully we'll be able to figure out how to put it up!

We definitely don't want to end up lost, starving, or without shelter, so for those of you who are more experienced campers, or who have been to Zion's, is there any advice, tips, or words of warning you can offer us?

4 comments:

Carson and Shelly* said...

Take your cell phone and call me if you forget something really important. I am only about 45 min away.

Jessica said...

Try setting up your tent ahead of time..we did with our new tent and found out that it had a broken elastic in one of the poles. We would have been sleeping in the car.

Anonymous said...

Hike Angel's Landing! Not exactly related to the camping experience itself, but it is an amazing climb and well worth the view. It's a great hike!

Summers Family Blog said...

Have a great time! Home it doesn't rain on you.