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Should you buy a camping shower for your trip? Or maybe you should just make your own like the own shown here. Hitchhiking a ride after a week of camping and backpacking However, you might be surprised at how far you can get with public transportation or ride sharing. Okay, I know that a lot of people arenвЂ™t going to be keen on the idea of hitchhiking.

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I donвЂ™t have a car or know how to drive, so I always go camping with a combination of train + bus + hitchhiking. Gasoline costs a lot, and youвЂ™ll probably have to drive a while to get to a nice camping spot. Just remember to follow the Etiquette Rules of Borrowing Camping Gear. I love it when someone asks to borrow my gear because it means I am helping them get out into nature. Going camping for the first time and arenвЂ™t sure whether you will like it? Borrow camping gear instead of buying it. However, I still love this tip because it shows how you can get multiple uses out of one piece of gear. I personally donвЂ™t find need to have a lantern when camping. Just put your headlamp around a jug of water and it will provide ambient lighting. This camping trick is pretty well known now. Yes, it takes some time but is really fun to do! You just have to bring some rope and learn how to make a вЂњsquare lashingвЂќ knot. Why not make your own? It is actually pretty easy to make a bushcraft chair. I just put my sleeping pad on the ground and we sit on that when camping.Д«ut, after going camping with someone whoвЂ™d had hip replacement surgery, I understand that some people need or want a proper chair to sit in. Mixing our own GORP for a backpacking/camping trip!Д¬amping chairs are an expensive luxury that probably isnвЂ™t worth it unless you are camping very frequently. As for making GORP, I love dehydrated bananas, strawberries, pears, and apples (with cinnamon sprinkled on them). I buy foods in summer when they are dirt cheap and dehydrate them for winter. Yes, buying a dehydrator is expensive but it quickly pays off.

These are way overpriced and it would be a lot cheaper to buy each of the ingredients separately and mix them together.Д®ven better, use your dehydrator to make your own GORP!

You can buy all sorts of fancy GORP mixes in the supermarket. (Read How to Calculate How Much GORP to Bring Hiking) In other words, you can bring a lot of it without it weighing down your pack. It is considered one of the best hiking snacks because it is high-nutrient but low weight. GORP stands for Good Old Raisins and Peanuts. There is absolutely no reason you need fancy expensive gear to go camping! To show you how cheap camping can be, hereвЂ™s 10 tips forВ camping on a shoestring budget. But if we keep pushing all these expensive outdoor items, a lot of people will think that going camping is beyond their means. Yes, it would be nice to have some super high-tech shirt which never gets sweaty. So, when I go into my local mountaineering shop and see outdoors clothing that costs $150 for a shirt or sleeping bags that retail for over $400, it makes me cringe. I live in Serbia, a country which has beautiful nature but an average monthly salary of less than $400.