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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:01:09 AM EDT
As somebody who both tent camps and RVs, pulling into a "campground" with a 30A hookup, full sewer/water, lawn furniture, etc is not "camping".
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:03:14 AM EDT
[#1]
Anywhere you can carry a cooler to is not "camping"
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:03:50 AM EDT
[#2]
No. It's fun, but not camping.
Camping requires a tent, and may not involve a microwave oven. If you have a working microwave oven available to you, you are not camping. |
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:04:59 AM EDT
[#3]
No.
Doesn't really count unless you can carry all your stuff in one trip... Therefore, "car camping" isn't really camping either.. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:05:44 AM EDT
[#4]
No one needs an "assault weapon." Using a compound bow isn't really bow hunting. No one needs a clip that holds more than ten bullets.
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:06:04 AM EDT
[#5]
If you're staying in a camper then what else would you call it?
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:06:05 AM EDT
[#6]
Quoted: As somebody who both tent camps and RVs, pulling into a "campground" with a 30A hookup, full sewer/water, lawn furniture, etc is not "camping". http://www.lolbrary.com/lolpics/244/rving-is-not-camping-5244.jpg RVs are for pro bowlers, golfers, race drivers, and people like that... who spend much of their lives on the road going from event to event across the nation. Or for people who want to go cross country in a "mobile" home. They aren't "camping" by no means... in fact they are quite the opposite. |
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:06:33 AM EDT
[#7]
Second picture is indeed ridiculous.
But the first picture isn't camping either. That's car camping. This is camping: 
... now a countdown to an ultralight guy posting a picture of a hippie camping under a Tyvek sheet...
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:07:14 AM EDT
[#8]
I don't consider it camping. It is a hobby in itself.
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:07:33 AM EDT
[#9]
I dont think sitting a tent up on pad as "camping" with your car parked on asphalt 10 feet away . My wife thinks if your not at home and not sleeping in a motel your camping . But Im not going to look down on you or envy you for how you do it as long as you are have fun and dont dick up other peoples good time.
Hence WE have this .  and I have this  |
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:08:10 AM EDT
[#10]
It's fun and I'd do it, but it ain't camping.
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:10:00 AM EDT
[#11]
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Second picture is indeed ridiculous. But the first picture isn't camping either. That's car camping. No, car camping IS camping. What you're describing is backpacking, which is a different animal. |
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:13:06 AM EDT
[#12]
Depends on what you do with the RV.
I've seen 40 foot motor homes camping in the Arizona desert all winter - with no electrical hookups, no sewer hookups, and no fresh water for several dozen miles in any direction. Then you have the tent campers who come for the weekend, play with their toys, and are back home by Sunday evening. |
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:14:21 AM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Second picture is indeed ridiculous. But the first picture isn't camping either. That's car camping. No, car camping IS camping. What you're describing is backpacking, which is a different animal. Indeed. I can see the sense in campers too, such as pop-up trailers... they're nice for good shelter. But anything bigger than a mini-van and it's not camping. It's mobile-homing. |
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:19:31 AM EDT
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Second picture is indeed ridiculous. But the first picture isn't camping either. That's car camping. No, car camping IS camping. What you're describing is backpacking, which is a different animal. Indeed. I can see the sense in campers too, such as pop-up trailers... they're nice for good shelter. But anything bigger than a mini-van and it's not camping. It's mobile-homing. Do they stay at mobile-home parks? 
In this part of the country they stay at places called "camp grounds." I have no idea why. |
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:20:34 AM EDT
[#15]
Why does it have to be so finely quantified?
If it doesn't bother anyone else, who cares. It's personal, and highly subjective. If it meets the definition of the person doing the activity, then it is camping. I'd rather encourage someone to experience the great outdoors in whatever fashion they prefer as opposed to telling them to stay at home. |
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:24:50 AM EDT
[#16]
An RV is a miniature mobile home. I'm glad to see people enjoying the outdoors, but its def not camping.
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:27:11 AM EDT
[#17]
If you can't carry what you need to a remote location for an uncertain period of time, you're not camping.
I pack a sleeping bag with cinch cords. Tents are for people worried about bears. 
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:28:24 AM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Second picture is indeed ridiculous. But the first picture isn't camping either. That's car camping. No, car camping IS camping. What you're describing is backpacking, which is a different animal. Indeed. I can see the sense in campers too, such as pop-up trailers... they're nice for good shelter. But anything bigger than a mini-van and it's not camping. It's mobile-homing. Do they stay at mobile-home parks? In this part of the country they stay at places called "camp grounds." I have no idea why. A camp ground IS a mobile home park, essentially. The difference being, mobile homes rent space long term and camp grounds are weekly or such. You've got the same hookups available usually. Now, I say usually because some will have spots with hookups and spots without... Some others will just be a big old field someone decided to call a campground. Others still will be a full on resort type of place with a "lodge" and shower facility and so on. I usually see RVs parked in reserved areas of venues. Be it at a stadium, horse track, convention center, etc... At Six Flags the RVs always go to the full accoutrement RV camp. The people more into roughing it, go to off-site grounds with little more than some mud and grass. |
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:34:40 AM EDT
[#19]
That there is a RV Clark.
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:35:54 AM EDT
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Second picture is indeed ridiculous. But the first picture isn't camping either. That's car camping. No, car camping IS camping. What you're describing is backpacking, which is a different animal. Indeed. I can see the sense in campers too, such as pop-up trailers... they're nice for good shelter. But anything bigger than a mini-van and it's not camping. It's mobile-homing. Do they stay at mobile-home parks?
In this part of the country they stay at places called "camp grounds." I have no idea why. A camp ground IS a mobile home park, essentially. The difference being, mobile homes rent space long term and camp grounds are weekly or such. You've got the same hookups available usually. Now, I say usually because some will have spots with hookups and spots without... Some others will just be a big old field someone decided to call a campground. Others still will be a full on resort type of place with a "lodge" and shower facility and so on. I usually see RVs parked in reserved areas of venues. Be it at a stadium, horse track, convention center, etc... At Six Flags the RVs always go to the full accoutrement RV camp. The people more into roughing it, go to off-site grounds with little more than some mud and grass. Here we are "off the grid" in Rio Costilla, New Mexico. Nothing but solitude, cattle, and great fly fishing. With a 6-month old baby, the RV (on loan from my mother-in-law) was much appreciated. We're enjoying the great outdoors, but not really "camping". 
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:36:03 AM EDT
[#21]
Vacationing.
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:36:57 AM EDT
[#22]
There are a lot of different kinds of camping. I have done many and it's all fun, sometimes I get paid to do it.
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:37:14 AM EDT
[#23]
Camping is whatever I used to backpack.....carry it all on your back..........hit the woods......
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:37:59 AM EDT
[#24]
You're generally supposed to camp a few feet off the trail, not ON the trail.
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:38:22 AM EDT
[#25]
This is camping:
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:39:26 AM EDT
[#26]
Quoted: Here we are "off the grid" in Rio Costilla, New Mexico. Nothing but solitude, cattle, and great fly fishing. With a 6-month old baby, the RV (on loan from my mother-in-law) was much appreciated. We're enjoying the great outdoors, but not really "camping". http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/100/n1244421385304748782596.jpg I have no problem with that... enjoy life! I'm just sayin' it ain't camping, not that there is anything wrong with it.  |
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:40:23 AM EDT
[#27]
Quoted: That there is a RV Clark. Shitters full. |
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:41:08 AM EDT
[#28]
In before Zhukov.
He thinks he is camping in his "RV". Guy has never camped a day in his life... |
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:41:09 AM EDT
[#29]
Why do you care how other people camp or what they call it? MYOB.
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:43:02 AM EDT
[#30]
Quoted: Why do you care how other people camp or what they call it? MYOB. Because it's as bad as people that call an SUV a Truck. It's not a truck, it's an SUV. |
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:43:07 AM EDT
[#31]
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You're generally supposed to camp a few feet off the trail, not ON the trail. Well, it looks like he's a couple of feet above the trail, so he's GTG. Neat! |
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:43:43 AM EDT
[#32]
Quoted: Why do you care how other people camp? MYOB. I don't care what people do, only that they are calling it something that it isn't, by definition. When you pile all your shit into a $90,000.00 palace on wheels, you no longer qualify for: Lodge temporarily, esp. in an inappropriate or uncomfortable place
Now you wanna call it mobile-homing, I've got no issues with that at all. See also: noun /kamp/  camps, plural
Nope, still not qualifying. Verb and noun, both strike-outs. You're mobile-homing, stfu. |
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:45:36 AM EDT
[#33]
If you pack it in, camp, then pack it out it is called camping.
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:45:45 AM EDT
[#34]
Jealous much?
Camping is a tent is a royal pain in the ass. Camping in an RV is a blast. |
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:46:58 AM EDT
[#35]
Anything that resembles a parking lot is not camping. I don't care what the backdrop is or how many trees happen to be around. Not camping.
As a matter of fact, camping to me typically involves a place remote enough where seeing other people is extremely unlikely. |
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:47:09 AM EDT
[#36]
It's car camping. Not the same as a tent, but neither is backpacking for a few days.
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:50:56 AM EDT
[#37]
Any which way you do it, its too much fuckin work for what its worth..IMO anyway.
<––-has a pop-up, needs a gallon of diesel and a match to make it complete 
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:51:43 AM EDT
[#38]
In Florida, we would call that "feeding the mosquitoes." |
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:53:20 AM EDT
[#39]
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Why do you care how other people camp or what they call it? MYOB. Bingo. I take my pop-up to all sorts of caving get-togethers and catch a lot of shit for it. Yet it's amazing how many people come by in the morning to bum a cup of coffee or ask to use my shower. |
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:53:36 AM EDT
[#40]
Same old shit.
There's always some guys who claims using anything with wheels isn't camping. Then there's the guy who shows up sometimes to the HTF campouts to remind us that we're not REALLY camping because we didn't hike.  Then there's "that guy" who insist bringing tents are for pussies. It goes on and on and on. |
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:54:10 AM EDT
[#41]
I haven't saw anything in this thread that is worse then a good day at work.
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:55:17 AM EDT
[#42]
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In Florida, we would call that "feeding the mosquitoes." No skeeters at 30 degrees.
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:57:39 AM EDT
[#43]
Yeah it is camping. But is sure isn't roughing it.
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Posted: 6/13/2011 5:58:20 AM EDT
[#44]
Meh, whatever floats their boat. I'm a backpacker, but I don't look down on people taking their family out in an RV for a weekend or a vacation. Doesn't matter to me what they call it either. |
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Posted: 6/13/2011 6:04:34 AM EDT
[#45]
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It's fun and I'd do it, but it ain't camping. |
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Posted: 6/13/2011 6:06:28 AM EDT
[#46]
I grew up tent camping. Now I have a fifth wheel and I love it. There is no way my wife is going tent camping so it all works out.
I have no idea why so many tent campers insist on telling me I am not camping in my fifth wheel. I get to get out with the family so I really don't care what someone elses opinion is of it. |
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Posted: 6/13/2011 6:08:43 AM EDT
[#47]
I don't really care what anyone calls any of it. The RV thing isn't my cup of tea.... if I'm travelling, I'd rather stay at a hotel.
If I want to go into the woods, I'd rather be in my tent (if I have family with me) or in my jungle hammock if solo. If I'm in the woods, I'm generally trying kill something, so the RV thing is kinda a joke... and the "camp ground" thing is also kind of a joke. This is my "idea" of camping.... at 11,000 ft. in September!
-ZA 
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Posted: 6/13/2011 6:11:15 AM EDT
[#48]
This is my idea of staying in "5 Star" accomodations on a hunting trip...
-ZA 
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Posted: 6/13/2011 6:20:51 AM EDT
[#49]
Just curious how many Arfcommers work for Webster's. There seem to be an awful lot of threads filled with people sanctimonious enough to think they are the utmost authority on the definition of certain words.
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Posted: 6/13/2011 6:24:30 AM EDT
[#50]
Holy shit....GSD's can drive RV's?
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