Camping: Campgrounds or Wilderness?

[Rukentuts]

If your idea of roughing it involves hot running water then I suggest a hotel.

[Puupi]

rofl

"hot water from solar energy"

[Hyve]

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Still, the point is quite valid. You can still keep yourself perfectly clean while out camping and such. Hell, we had to in Army Cadets and we were covered in Mud, Cam Cream, Rain and general other scum and goo. You'd be surprised how well a pack of Baby Wipes can clean you up, with a sponge and some hot water from a small fire.

[Rukentuts]

rofl

"hot water from solar energy"

Having used those before, the water gets really hot after awhile in the sun.

[Wildtree]

I'm not the camping kind of a guy..
But if I absolutely have to, I always preferred the rather wilderness type.
My entire camping experience dates back to still living in Germany, and there it is a must do to obtain permission from the property owner. Wild camping on public land is illegal. That's why there are camp grounds. The alternative is therefore privately owned land, and for that.... well you need the owners permission. If you display responsibility, and professionalism, a permission is rather easy to get.

[Puupi]

Having used those before, the water gets really hot after awhile in the sun.

No shit. Sun (solar energy) heats things. Especially water.

I mean, why would someone use that kind of thing? Kind of mind boggling to me...

[Azutael]

It's not proper camping if it isn't in the wild, with just the bare necessities.
Then again, if you are with small children etc it might be preferable to be at a camping ground until they get older.

[Keyboard Champion]

Campgrounds are for bums, I'm sorry, it had to be said. If you're going out camping you have to do it in the wilderness, otherwise it just shows you can't afford to stay at a hotel.

Campgrounds...my ass.

[Rukentuts]

If you're going out camping you have to do it in the wilderness, otherwise it just shows you can't afford to stay at a hotel.

Pfft. Driving to the camp site is for wussies.

[Forgettable]

I usually only go camping twice a year.

Once it's to a summer camp as a counselor. Part of that weeklong "camp" involves going on an outtrip for 3 nights which is to the middle of nowhere in the wilderness. We set up a tarp and ground sheet and eat rice out of billy cans cooked over a campfire.

The other camping trip I do is with my 5 buddies from highschool. We go to a tenting only campsite in Kananaskis country where the only utilities are a flat tent site, a campfire hole, an outhouse, firewood and non drinkable water from a pump.

Both of the above I would consider actual camping. I've been to sissier campsites with my family when I was younger. They're alright, but they don't really feel like real camping to me.