Table of Contents Introduction Equipment Clothing Socks Hat or head covering Choice of Sleeping Bag – Making up Your Bed Choice of Tent Tarpaulin tent Bivouac tent Pegging out your Tent Tips Recognizing Weather Changes Making an Emergency Raincoat A Fire Which Lasts through the Night… Making a Rakovalkea Food, Glorious Food Making Your Own Billycan Marching Tips Easy to Implement Tips Getting rid of Grease Night lamp/Beacon Taking Your Child(ren) Along Responsibility Given to Children Leisure Activities to Keep the Little Folk Busy Conclusion Appendix Author Bio Publisher Introduction For all those people who are lucky enough to have spent their childhood camping outdoors, for at least some part of the year, they know what camping is all about, especially in summer. Your family got together, possibly taking the family dog along, got into the car and departed in that direction, a bit like USS ENTERPRISE, but this time going where so many families have gone before. Your parents knew exactly where you would be doing the camping, because they knew the best camping sites from experience and personal knowledge. Camping for most of us meant swimming, barbecues outside, sing-along around a campfire, with the crickets and katydids chirping away merrily in joyful companionship, and then somebody who had a really wicked sense of humor would start telling eerily terrifying and creepy stories, well chosen to make every single hair and hackles at the back of your neck rise in horror terror and panic! And then you need somebody to accompany you to your tent, as you creep shivering into your sleeping bag, mouth dry and totally unable to sleep, knowing full well, that nightmares are going to follow you, for quite a while afterwards. Especially the Cat Goddess, the lady in black, the Were tiger, who was once an accursed Egyptian priest and so on! And you promise yourself, that if you get through the night, safe and sound, you are going to wake up in the morning and strangle that wicked storyteller. Let me admit, I happen to be one of those human horrors, with a good stock of terrible, horrible tales, garnered from all around the world, since childhood, and half of them were learned in scouting/guiding camps, and then on camping trips with friends, their families, and colleagues.