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    The Best Tent Camping Guide: From Novice To Expert: Northwoods Camping Series, #1
    The Best Tent Camping Guide: From Novice To Expert: Northwoods Camping Series, #1
    The Best Tent Camping Guide: From Novice To Expert: Northwoods Camping Series, #1
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    The Best Tent Camping Guide: From Novice To Expert: Northwoods Camping Series, #1

    By Darren Kirby

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    Do you enjoy tent camping, but every trip you seem to be missing a critical piece to your gear?  Are you a tent camper that goes as often as you can in the summer months, but want to expand how early or late in the year that you go?  Are you a novice tent camper that just doesn't know where to begin?  In The Best Tent Camping Guide, you will find help for all of these situations, plus a lot more!

    Outdoor enthusiast and four-decade camper Darren Kirby has put together a guide that will help you to streamline your camping so that you can avoid the hassles and get to what's important:  enjoying the great outdoors!  In this book you'll discover:

    + The dos and don'ts of choosing the right tent
    + How you can seriously overspend on gear – and how to avoid it!
    + How to pick the best campsite in any campground
    + How to care for your gear to make it last for years

    No matter where you are in your tent camping career, you'll find useful information.  This is a no-frills book that puts you in control of having the best tent camping experience, time after time.


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    “The Best Tent Camping Guide” is a must have for anyone looking to enter the exciting world of camping and outdoor recreation. Finally, answers to all those important questions can be found in one, easy to read, easy to understand guide. From selecting a tent, to building a camp kitchen, this book will help you navigate through the process and get you on your way, even on a limited budget.

    Skip Huber, Host/Executive Producer, "Happy Camper Radio"


    A good basic primer for folks who are new to tent-camping.  [It] details basic but important things that newbies seldom consider...an easy read.


    Cliff Jacobson, Author of "Camping's Top Secrets" and "Canoeing and Camping: Beyond the Basics"

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDarren Kirby
    Release dateSep 30, 2017
    ISBN9781386522898
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      The Best Tent Camping Guide - Darren Kirby

      Acknowledgements

      Putting a book together is never a solitary effort. Yes, the writer does his or her part in putting words to paper, but that’s just one part of the whole process. There are others, both before the words were committed to paper as well as after, that have their place in the process. They need to be acknowledged for the sacrifice that they offered to help make a book better than it was.

      First, I need to thank my parents for providing many years of outdoor education. As kids, they would take my brothers and I fishing in all seasons, hunting, boating, and camping, both near and far. It was during my youth that I gained an appreciation for the power of an open fire in hypnotizing people, flames dancing in the darkness. Without their tireless efforts to show us all the magic of the outdoors, this book simply would not exist. Mom and dad, thank you so much!

      Next, there are several people that need a special shout-out. They provided wonderful insights, confirmed some things I had wondered about, and generally helped to make this book much better than it was originally in my head. All of them sacrificed their time, with no compensation, to help me make a better book. Their selfless acts will not go unnoticed nor unrewarded. Thank you Catie, Danette, Laurie, and Clifford.

      I also need to give a special thanks to a couple of people who provided me with endorsements: Clifford and Skip. It was a big ask on my part, yet you willingly agreed to help me in this regard.

      I want to thank my graphic artist and friend, Heidi, for her enthusiastic work on the cover for this book. I am very fortunate that she gets me when it comes to the outdoors, and she never fails to impress me with her ideas.

      I would be forgetting a hugely important person in my life if I didn’t give a thank you to my wife, Amy. She has stuck by me for more than two decades, putting up with my crazy ideas and interests, and still smiles when I tell her of my next wild adventure. She is my favorite camping partner, and only complains a little when I end up getting burn holes in her camping sweatshirt. I love you, sweets!

      Lastly, I want to thank all of the readers of my past books, both fiction and non-fiction. Your interest and feedback help keep me motivated, and I hope that this volume will provide help to many people who are already tent campers as well as those folks who want to get into tent camping. A book is just a stack of paper until it gets picked up and read, so thank you for making this stack of paper a real book.

      ~Darren, July 2017

      Introduction

      Camping in general provides one with the ability to explore in greater depth the wonderful outdoors that surround us. There are many ways to go about camping, from the minimalist with few provisions and just a light form of protection, all the way up to the coach bus motor home with satellite television access and Internet connections, so why focus on tent camping? Because tent camping is the easiest and cheapest way to get into the activity of camping, it is a type of gateway drug that leads to other styles of camping, all of which require more expensive investments.

      This book should provide nearly everyone, regardless of their experience level, something to consider with regards to how they tent camp, but certainly the novice tent camper will have more to learn than the experienced tent camper. The stages of tent camping follow a natural progression, and I will be following this natural progression in this book. The novice tent camper who finds they enjoy the activity will soon move into what I will call the ‘beginner’ tent camper, which is someone that has gone a few times and finds that they enjoy it. Then they may move into the ‘intermediate’ tent camper, i.e., a tent camper who owns their own gear and goes a several times a year. The ‘intermediate’ tent camper may eventually move into the ‘experienced/expert’ tent camper, though this doesn’t always happen. At each of these stages certain things happen, and it’s important not to rush through these stages as it could result in a bad experience, having equipment that just doesn’t suit a person’s needs, or more.

      So what does this book cover? Well, of course it deals with tents and all the variety that there is with these portable shelters (and there is a lot!). But we’ll also deal with the other items that you’ll need for a proper tent camping setup – sleeping bags, tarps, cooking equipment, accessory shelters, and more. At each stage you’ll be encouraged to really evaluate where your tent camping needs are, and then to equip yourself properly. While money helps to solve a lot of issues, it can actually be a detriment if just thrown about without some advance planning. Also, while we’ll go all the way up to the expert who goes all year-round, that doesn’t mean you should feel that you have to. You should do what is right for you, and that will not be the same as the next tent camper.

      Just as important as what the book covers is what the book does NOT cover. I don’t spend time on things like how to light a fire, how to pack your clothes, or other items. This isn’t because these things aren’t important to know, it’s because there are a ton of resources that already address them. This book is intended to be different from the rest, and that meant that I didn’t want to waste time (and paper) detailing things that are easily found on YouTube or other sites or in books that you may already have or can borrow.

      One other note to keep in mind. Most of what I discuss related to camping sites pertain to established camping facilities – state and national parks, as well as private campgrounds. These locations have assigned

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