Fishing camp, hunting camp, more than weekend camp?

[DOC-CANADA]

We spend a week at a fishing camp in Canada every year for the last 30 years. Also we Have a Mule deer hunting camp where we spend a week or ten days every November.

Where do you go in Canada?

Don't worry, I won't come over with my lawn chairs.

Doc

 

[desmobob]

I go at least once a year, in the fall. I do a solo backpacking trip during early archery season and sometimes do a trip during the rifle season (whitetails). The trip can be tough due to boredom because of the short daylight hours. It's tougher during the rifle season because it gets dark really early. That means I'm in my sleeping bag, reading, from after supper until bed-time.

A couple of good books are absolutely necessary! The first time I did it, I only brought one small book. I had it read by early into the second evening. The third evening, I tried to stay entertained by listening to a tiny portable radio. I packed up and headed home before the fourth evening.

Stay sharp,
desmobob

 

[udtjim]

We have been going to Amisk Lake. About forty miles or so west Of Flin Flon. We started in 1979 and went every year once or twice until this year. I am afraid the oil Companies have priced those trips out of reach from now on. I have fished a few lakes in Manitoba as well. We usually went to the same camp hunting Black Bear. The Canadians have treated us awfully well over the years. Darn good folks for the most part. You should be proud.

Lots of memories made of the trips and the people who went with us. Some are gone now but those trips were a BIG part of our lives. Where are you up there?

 

[DOC-CANADA]

We have been going to Amisk Lake. About forty miles or so west Of Flin Flon. We started in 1979 and went every year once or twice until this year. I am afraid the oil Companies have priced those trips out of reach from now on. I have fished a few lakes in Manitoba as well. We usually went to the same camp hunting Black Bear. The Canadians have treated us awfully well over the years. Darn good folks for the most part. You should be proud.

Lots of memories made of the trips and the people who went with us. Some are gone now but those trips were a BIG part of our lives. Where are you up there?

Glad they treated you well. I'm in Southern Ontario.

Doc

 

[rnr]

Here's how I 'Car Camp'. Maybe I should say truck camp???

and how I get there.

No other people, definately no TV reception, barely radio reception. This site is at about 10500 ft elevation.

And when I go hunting in November at 9500 ft, typically lots of snow, it's for 10 days.

 

[Gurthang]

The distain of "car camping" is similar to what some hunters think of other people's hunting preferences. Many hunters seem obligated to categorize and prioritize particular methods of hunting. Canned hunts are a disgrace. Guided hunts inferior to DIY hunts. Hunting over agriculture fields is less than 'big woods' hunting. Gun hunters are less than archers. Compound archers are less than traditional hunters. You get the picture.

While their method of 'camping' disgusts you, if may be high quality family time for them, and since they're not very far from major roads, what harm can they be doing to you? That they still call it camping doesn't demean what you do.

Please don't get me wrong; while I don't get to do it much, last time I took my son camping, we slept four nights in jungle hammocks right outside my friends cabin. To me, campground camping isn't camping at all, but if your fat, sweaty sports fan wants to call his weekend 'camping', let him.

 

[baldtaco-II]

Let's not confuse disgust with prohibition. I'm glad they do what they do, I just don't want it anywhere near me or mine. My using that New Forest as an example fits in rather well with the hunting thing. It was artificially constructed as a playground for hunting by Henry VIII. Hunting deer in what was in essence his big personal hunting garden is nothing like what a stalker did / does in the Highlands. Am I glad the New Forest exists? Yup, it's a pretty place for me to pop along to for a picnic and to walk the dog. And without those lamers there that call what they do camping it would probably have been bulldozed a good long time ago. Same thing applies to golf, and as the saying goes about “the good walk spoiled”. I find golfers to be silly little men, and a golf course to be pitiful compared to a proper forest. The fact the best I can muster is to laugh at them doesn't mean I'd want to stop them. Even the worst golf course is still a better environmental feature than Bradford. It's all relative.