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Beckers on their 7th camping trip in 2 months

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BushOgre

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So my Beckers have already logged 30+ days of camping in 2 1/2 months. My goal is to have more than 125 days of Becker bush time this year.

How much time do you guys have planned to spend camping this year?
 
Wife, son, and my mother have been along for all trips. We all love the "outsideyness" of being outside. I have an awesome family. Most of my knives have been gifts.
 
Now that I'm out of school, I plan to get as much time as I can get. Once I take my board exam, I'm gonna celebrate with an upa/downa for sure!
 
I can break the wife in...she does like camping, but we haven't been out since I went into wilderness survival mode. Plus 3 and 4 year olds that don't respect fire. Eventually. Otherwise, it's about one weekend a month for me.
 
We split time between Thunderbird, Murray and Eufala. Going to hit a few Okie lakes this year and try to get over to the Ozarks again.
 
C_Tanner said:
I can break the wife in...she does like camping, but we haven't been out since I went into wilderness survival mode. Plus 3 and 4 year olds that don't respect fire. Eventually. Otherwise, it's about one weekend a month for me.
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My son is 5. He has been camping regularly since he was two. He fell in love with hammock camping when he was three. He got his own hammock and never wanted to see a tent again. He is my little wilderness buddy. He can log about 5-6 miles of hiking at a time. Carries his own pack and water bladder. Toys and snacks as well. If he sees animal tracks he goes into bloodhound mode. He is a beast. As far as fire goes, he loves to dig the pit and find kindling. I am so lucky he isn't one of the whiney androgynous boys I see everywhere today.
 
BushOgre said:
My son is 5. He has been camping regularly since he was two. He fell in love with hammock camping when he was three. He got his own hammock and never wanted to see a tent again. He is my little wilderness buddy. He can log about 5-6 miles of hiking at a time. Carries his own pack and water bladder. Toys and snacks as well. If he sees animal tracks he goes into bloodhound mode. He is a beast. As far as fire goes, he loves to dig the pit and find kindling. I am so lucky he isn't one of the whiney androgynous boys I see everywhere today.
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THAT is so very cool. I took my 3 1/2 yr old daughter to a local park (Boca Ciega Millenium Park in Seminole FL) yesterday and we were hiking the trails that it has there. She found a nice sized stick that she was using as a walking stick and as she said, "to use against alligators". We went down to a small creek where fossilized bones of giant sloths, camels, turtles with shells 5- to 6-feet long, saber-toothed cats, horses, and giant armadillos the size of Volkswagen Beetles, were found a few years ago. She is normally such a girly girl so I was so happy to see her enjoying the outdoors looking for frogs, bugs and getting dirty a bit. I told her that when she gets older, she can have her own knife to carry when we go hiking/camping in the woods. She was so excited, as was I, then she said this, "I want it to be a pink one" LOL I was originally thinking a BK13 but now may have to go with a Pink Dozier folder or a Pink Izula. :)
 
I love to camping. I would like to go now, as I have all this time being laid off, but unfortunately, a lay off means no funds. We are going to Kentucky in a week, at a cabin I booked at Natural Bridge. We try to go on at least one vacation per year with our income tax refund.
 
Hope to get a little bush time with the bro Sqoon soon. Working 80+ hours a week makes getting out a challenge at best when you have a family eagerly waiting your return, just to spend three hours together:( Chilao flats will probable be our first spot, followed by some hiking/camping soon.
 
I'm going to staff 8 weeks of summer camp, in a tent the whole time, wearing an $80 uniform made of nylon that feels like nothing the whole time, working on a ropes course in said uniform the whole time, does that count?

By the way, the uniform I'm talking about is not what you think it might be.... The pants are thinner than paper and see-through when wet, which in Florida is between 4:00 and 4:30 every afternoon, nylon "(not so) rip-stop".... AND!!!! And on top of the expensive BSA made in china uniform instead of working clothes, the camp doesn't allow sheath knives, even folders with sheaths are frowned upon because "They look to tactical, to weapon like"..... Any of you that are in Scouting know what I'm talking about (unless you have never seen the "new" Venturing pants). Anyhow, that and the staff work (voluntold) weekends are all my camping trips for the next few months. By the way, the reason I'm working at the camp I am instead of the one I worked at least year is more logistically correct given the recent stuff going in my life.

Sorry for thread jacking and the rant, but yeah, other than a couple camp outs in the fall, which are all October/November on the calendar, that's 90% of my camping for the rest of the year.
 
Bobthemotorcycle said:
Where at in OK are you?

I am going to be spending everyday I can at Roaring River State Park in Missouri hiking their trails and fishing.

I will also be at Beaver Lake here in Arkansas camping, fishing, and hiking trails at Hobbs State Park on Beaver Lake everyday I am able. I will be hiking a 8 mile trail tomorrow afternoon to look for a couple of camping sites by the lake.

The rest of the time I will be at home sleeping in my front yard like I am camping.

I am single and it will be mostly me and my son.

I sometimes pray to God for a wife then I thank Him for not giving me one.
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I am in Noble. It's just south of Norman. We spent 5 days at Hobbs last year. Nice place. I spent the majority of my time hiking or hiding from people by slinging my hammock up in the hills. Good times.
 
Just bought a canoe, so got in 2 days paddling / fishing this weekend. Looking to get at least 1 section of AT done this year, float down on the "trough" in Romney WV, few shorter trips to Dolly Sods, Seneca Rocks, Spruce Knob
 
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