$25 a night for campsite.
$40 a night for cheap hotel.

$15 extra a night for a/c, tv, private bath, and no set up/tear down time.

/just sayin'

Be careful if you go camping. Pick the wrong place, and you could be eaten alive! Bugs and snakes are a constant threat.
http://www.uncoveror.com/termites.htm
http://www.uncoveror.com/flying.htm

Camping can be fun for its own sake, regardless of price.

That said, in a few days I'm going to a spa resort in St Lucia for a week and I wouldn't swap it for a week out camping.

"You TOTALLY just wiped your ass with poison sumac"

I had a friend do this with poison oak in 1985. His nickname to this day is "Itch". Even his wife calls him that.

I don't know... I keep getting mailings for free and cheap ($15/night) rooms at various casinos, while the state parks are still charging $20/night for camping.

Besides, camping in my back yard is quieter in more private than most campgrounds.

/Granted, I DO have a big back yard.
//42 acres.

ghare: $25 a night for campsite.
$40 a night for cheap hotel.

$15 extra a night for a/c, tv, private bath, and no set up/tear down time.

Last time I pitched a tent it was on Ocracoke. Temps hit 100+ during the day. My tent, a little North Face fly, was like an oven. I, and many others, were up 1/2 the night drinking and hitting the showers. Found some shade on the west side of the island but the bugs had beaten me there.

The downside is that the last 40/night hotel I stayed in, well, it was like being on the location of a pr0n movie. The lady next door was pretty busy most of the night.

As a long time outdoor enthusiasts, this trend has been irritating the SHIAT out of me. Freakin newbies coming into my woods stealing my campsites only to get drunk and trash it most of the time. There's no housekeeping in the woods you assholes.

And what is with those two walking sticks???

This recession has turned into a great red tag sale if you are still doing well. I'm looking at flying to Europe for $400 round trip. Houses at the beach are renting for half what they did last year.

I'm going to go buy a used mountain bike today for 50%, six months old. Craigslist has HDTVs for 50% off as well.

I'm getting a kick out of this, just made Memorial Day reservations at a camping "resort" one we have been going to for 17 years. $33.00 a night (camp ground 1 adult, 3 teens) No electric. swim, sun, bingo, dance, ceramics, bon-fires, s'mores! you just can't get more Americana! Oh, I left out the bike decorating contest. Still blow about $100.00 on food, firewood and gas.

Yay, more fat people at the campgrounds with their radios blaring and their Wal-Mart predmade "meals."

ghare: $25 a night for campsite.
$40 a night for cheap hotel.

Those two things are not equivalent. I go camping to go camping, not just to go somewhere on the cheap

LandOfChocolate: ghare: $25 a night for campsite.
$40 a night for cheap hotel.

Those two things are not equivalent. I go camping to go camping, not just to go somewhere on the cheap

No kidding. Unless you are sitting alone in the woods, maybe with a hook in the water while you chill by a campfire, Not the same. Plus, I've never paid $25 for a campsite. Though in a lot of state parks you can rent a cabin for $50 a night, with tv, kitchen, AC, etc. Kind of a compromise.

castufari: ghare: $25 a night for campsite.
$40 a night for cheap hotel.

$15 extra a night for a/c, tv, private bath, and no set up/tear down time.

Last time I pitched a tent it was on Ocracoke. Temps hit 100+ during the day. My tent, a little North Face fly, was like an oven. I, and many others, were up 1/2 the night drinking and hitting the showers. Found some shade on the west side of the island but the bugs had beaten me there.

The downside is that the last 40/night hotel I stayed in, well, it was like being on the location of a pr0n movie. The lady next door was pretty busy most of the night.

You don't EVEN want to hear about my horrible trip to the Keys. Lucky I didn't need a transfusion and treatment for heatstroke.

I circumnavigated the US a few years back (9000+ miles) and stayed in both campsites (national and local) as well as hotels/motels. prices at camps ranged from 8-20 bucks a night (no hook-ups). funny to say, FL had the best sites (8 bucks, AC in restrooms, private shower, pristine toilet), while NM, although much more scenic, was growing bees the size of chihuahuas in the outhouse (in the toilet, which made sitting down terribly interesting). conversely, the cheap motels were just like some of the worst campsites, where you had to sleep in your bag on the bed and wear your boots in the shower. i'm looking at you, Bozeman, MT.

flaffle: As a long time outdoor enthusiasts, this trend has been irritating the SHIAT out of me. Freakin newbies coming into my woods stealing my campsites only to get drunk and trash it most of the time. There's no housekeeping in the woods you assholes.

tonesskin: Yay, more fat people at the campgrounds with their radios blaring and their Wal-Mart predmade "meals."

I'm shocked, shocked I say to find Farkers being uppity about camping.

/first time I went camping was for a week in the Boundary Waters.
//last time too
///I love the indoor plumbing

LandOfChocolate: ghare: $25 a night for campsite.
$40 a night for cheap hotel.

Those two things are not equivalent. I go camping to go camping, not just to go somewhere on the cheap

I do too, for the same reasons. If you're just looking for cheap, I say camping ain't worth it. If you're going to spend a few days in the woods and that's what you're looking for, fine.

And if you gotta take the wife and kids, well, it's not the same as carefree bachelor camping.

If Hollywood is smart, they'll respond to this whit a wave of remakes of all the classic camping movies, The Great Outdoors, Meatballs, Dances with Wolves, Grizzly, Friday the 13th, The Blair Witch Project . . .

/Well, they got a head start on one of them.

AverageJoe77: /first time I went camping was for a week in the Boundary Waters.
//last time too

Yeah, I lot of people can't handle it and have to go back to their couches. I understand that not all 75-year-old women can handle the outdoors.

No one for miles.

I enjoy hiking the Appalachian Trail. After the initial cost it is a great value. Spend a week or two out on the trail and you just understand.

flaffle, tonesskin:

God- I'm glad I'm not the only camping snob here. I'm happy some Americans are going to get outside and all, but the same people who can't seem to understand that a seat in a movie theater isn't their living room couch also can't seem to puzzle out that a campsite isn't their back yard.

That's why I liked (past tense: wife, baby- maybe again in a few years) back country camping. None of those slugs are going to haul a pack out a few miles from the parking lot.

ghare: $25 a night for campsite.
$40 a night for cheap hotel.

$15 extra a night for a/c, tv, private bath, and no set up/tear down time.

/just sayin'

This city slicker fails to understand the point of camping.

TommyDeuce: If Hollywood is smart, they'll respond to this whit a wave of remakes of all the classic camping movies, The Great Outdoors, Meatballs, Dances with Wolves, Grizzly, Friday the 13th, The Blair Witch Project . . .

/Well, they got a head start on one of them.

Robert Redford is working on one about the AT.

ghare: $25 a night for campsite.
$40 a night for cheap hotel.

$15 extra a night for a/c, tv, private bath, and no set up/tear down time.

I've never paid $25 for a campsite...and if I wanted to stay in a $40 hotel then I might as well just stay in a back alley somewhere.

tonesskin: Yay, more fat people at the campgrounds with their radios blaring and their Wal-Mart predmade "meals."

Don't camp at a "campground". Get back in the woods where they can't carry coolers or anything that runs on electricity. Hell, there shouldn't even be bathroom facilities.

Problem solved.

tonesskin: ghare: $25 a night for campsite.
$40 a night for cheap hotel.

$15 extra a night for a/c, tv, private bath, and no set up/tear down time.

I've never paid $25 for a campsite...and if I wanted to stay in a $40 hotel then I might as well just stay in a back alley somewhere.

National Park campsites are $25 a night. $40 hotels are NOT as bad as a back alley. If you want to be a camping/hotel snob, fine.

"ooh $25 is too much for a campsite! $40 is not enough for a hotel!"

Whatever.

CruJones: tonesskin: Yay, more fat people at the campgrounds with their radios blaring and their Wal-Mart predmade "meals."

Don't camp at a "campground". Get back in the woods where they can't carry coolers or anything that runs on electricity. Hell, there shouldn't even be bathroom facilities.

Problem solved.

I agree, but it still is sad that fat Wal-Mart shoppers will ruin campgrounds for others. They should stick to their church fairs.

I watched a true crime show on TV and they took a bedspread from a crime scene to test it for semen. They found the suspects stuff on the bedspread, along with 17 others. Ewwwwwwwwwww.

I'll stick with camping.

ghare: "ooh $25 is too much for a campsite! $40 is not enough for a hotel!"

Yes, glad you understand. Now, you stick to your $40/night hotels. I'll stick to the backwoods away from fatties.

tonesskin: CruJones: tonesskin: Yay, more fat people at the campgrounds with their radios blaring and their Wal-Mart predmade "meals."

Don't camp at a "campground". Get back in the woods where they can't carry coolers or anything that runs on electricity. Hell, there shouldn't even be bathroom facilities.

Problem solved.

I agree, but it still is sad that fat Wal-Mart shoppers will ruin campgrounds for others. They should stick to their church fairs.

Stay at campgrounds with HOA's then. They can keep all the people you don't approve of out, and force everyone to be as pure a camper as you.

ghare: They can keep all the people you don't approve of out, and force everyone to be as pure a camper as you.

I didn't say not as pure a camper. I said fat Wal-Mart shoppers blaring their radios. These same fatties litter, blare country music, are loud all night, harass animals, and then stay in $40/night hotel rooms.

StokeyBob: No one for miles.

Aww man, someone always dangles the low hanging fruit when i have to run. Would somebody please 'shop in either a grizzley mouth or some fat guy bending over by the lake?

LoneVVolf: Aww man, someone always dangles the low hanging fruit when i have to run. Would somebody please 'shop in either a grizzley mouth or some fat guy bending over by the lake?

Suddenly, a wild gootse appeared.

Pikachu used BARF.

tonesskin: ghare: They can keep all the people you don't approve of out, and force everyone to be as pure a camper as you.

I didn't say not as pure a camper. I said fat Wal-Mart shoppers blaring their radios. These same fatties litter, blare country music, are loud all night, harass animals, and then stay in $40/night hotel rooms.

Ahh, you're not just a CAMPING snob, you're a complete ASS! NOW I understand. No wonder so many on fark have you listed as a troll. You are one.

Gothnet: gootse

Now there's a fark filter I didn't know about!

ghare: Ahh, you're not just a CAMPING snob, you're a complete ASS! NOW I understand. No wonder so many on fark have you listed as a troll. You are one.

Oh no, someone has me listed as a troll for telling the truth.

I'm not a complete ass, I think people who don't respect others in a campground are the lowest pieces of shiat on earth. Besides those who stay in $40/night hotels.

tonesskin: Yes, I AM a troll and an ass.

I already said that, why are you repeating it?

ghare: Wahhhh, wahhhhh.

FTFY. Enjoy your woman beatin' at your roach motel.

National Park campsites are $25 a night.

Not true. Badlands is 10 a night
http://www.nps.gov/badl/planyourvisit/camping.htm

Grand Canyon (south rim) is 18
http://www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/cg-sr.htm

and yosemite is 10 a night (for no reservation sites like toulumne or porcupine flat).
http://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/porcupinecamp.htm

YMMV, but not 25 a night.

etc.

tonesskin: CruJones: tonesskin: Yay, more fat people at the campgrounds with their radios blaring and their Wal-Mart predmade "meals."

Don't camp at a "campground". Get back in the woods where they can't carry coolers or anything that runs on electricity. Hell, there shouldn't even be bathroom facilities.

Problem solved.

I agree, but it still is sad that fat Wal-Mart shoppers will ruin campgrounds for others. They should stick to their church fairs.

I camp, am not fat, yet still shop at WalMart sometimes. Where do I go?

CruJones: I camp, am not fat, yet still shop at WalMart sometimes. Where do I go?

I'm fairly certain I said fat people who shop at Wal-Mart, so if you aren't fat then it doesn't really apply to you. Unless you camp IN the Wal-Mart parking lot.

Straelbora: flaffle, tonesskin:

God- I'm glad I'm not the only camping snob here. I'm happy some Americans are going to get outside and all, but the same people who can't seem to understand that a seat in a movie theater isn't their living room couch also can't seem to puzzle out that a campsite isn't their back yard.

That's why I liked (past tense: wife, baby- maybe again in a few years) back country camping. None of those slugs are going to haul a pack out a few miles from the parking lot.

Longer Trek = Less Dreck

Lizara: AverageJoe77:
/first time I went camping was for a week in the Boundary Waters.
//last time too
///I love the indoor plumbing

Same. I also like hot showers, Internet access, and refrigeration. However, for those of you who are into camping, that's cool; I'm glad to help you out by keeping the wilderness that much more pristine by staying away from it myself.

...I'm also not very good at closing my tags...

tonesskin: I am a troll and an ass, EVERYONE MUST BEHAVE THE WAY I SAY, it's NOT A FREE country, WAAAAH, RESPECT MAH AUTHORITY! You're not a PURE CAMPER! You're not a pure HOTEL_STAYER_ATTER!! WHAARGAARBL *stamps tiny little hooves in frustration*?

Aren't you supposed to be over on the politics page raging against libruls?

I camp in style, in my Airstream travel trailer. I get to sleep in my own bed and use my own toilet. Your not going to get much of a hotel room for $40. Maybe a jive dive stained soaked bed with carpeting that has a million miles on it.

It's best to use a juvenile rabbit for the purpose of wiping one's posterior when in the wild. A small looping snare can be used to catch a juvenile rabbit. Mature rabbits should be quickly released after capture, especially mature male rabbits, because the bite threat to one's derriere is severe when dealing with mature rabbits. However, a juvenile rabbit, properly restrained, can be trusted not to bite when used to convey fecal soiling to the rabbit's fur from between one's buttock cheeks. Restrain your juvenile rabbit by firmly grasping its neck scruff with a tight grip. A firm front-to-back series of stroking motions, between one's legs, will remove the feces from between one's buttock cheeks and place the feces onto the fur of the juvenile rabbit. While continuing to firmly grip the neck-scruff of your juvenile rabbit, swing your arm in a wide arc and, at the apex of the arc, release the juvenile rabbit. A forward velocity should carry your juvenile rabbit approximately 10-15 yards away from your now pristinely cleansed body buttocks, and the fouled juvenile rabbit will quickly hop, somewhat piss-offedly, into scrub underbrush in order to conduct the looping, environmentally friendly licking off of feces from its fouled fur.

And there you have it. Friendly advice from a fine field-outdoor fanatic.

ghare: Aren't you supposed to be over on the politics page raging against libruls?

a) I never remotely mentioned someone being a "pure" camper. I was talking about people who go to campgrounds with their music blaring and littering. Not "pure" campers. What the fark is a pure camper to you, anyway?

b) Why would I rage against liberals?

c) Do you think people should go to campgrounds, litter, play loud music, and generally act like animals?

d) I think that people with motorhomes/trailers typically are just as respectful as tent campers. It's the loud people who treat the campground like a $40 a night roach motel that I'm talking about.

e) You sound fat.

ghare: $25 a night for campsite.
$40 a night for cheap hotel.

$15 extra a night for a/c, tv, private bath, and no set up/tear down time.

/just sayin'

You're doing it WRONG!!!

If you have to pay for a place to set up your tent nearby a bunch of other people, you're not camping. Also, if you can see any sort of road from your campsite, it's not camping either.