20 Essentials for Your Camping Check List
Camping is one of the classic outdoor experiences.
We all have a fond outdoor trip to recall, many of them end up being the best times of our lives - reconnecting with nature, spending time with friends and surviving away from the concrete jungle of the city.
Everyone also remembers that time that the can opener was forgotten, the matches left at home or the one pole for the tent that just couldn't be found.
Making sure you are prepared for your camping journey is the most important part of it - remember these 20 essential camping items on your next adventure.
1) Tent: The most important part of any camping trip! Don't forget the golden rule; if you are storing anything in the tent, buy one that is big enough for two people more than the number that will actually be using it.
2) Sleeping Bags: Some people decide that duvets and blankets will work - you'll learn the first time you get rain in the tent! 3) Sleeping Pad: Avoid back aches in the morning.
4) Pillows: Pillows are always good and often forgotten.
Much better than clothes stuffed into a backpack for your neck.
5) Folding Camping Chairs: Cooking lunch over a fire is great until you realise you have nowhere to sit.
6) First aid kit: Bandages, antiseptic, aspirin and gauze.
It's much safer to be prepared.
7) Plastic bags: For any kind of waste and cleaning up the campsite.
Also great if your clothes get wet.
8) Change of clothes: Nothing is worse than getting wet and having nothing to change into.
It never seems so bad when you first realise in the car on the way either.
9) Butane lighter: Don't rely in matches or the regular lighters that are small and can leak.
Butane lighters are far higher quality.
10) Can Opener: Everybody remembers the cans, but it's a frequent, angry realisation around the campsite that nobody brought the can opener.
11) Zip Lock Bags: Something else with many different uses.
Great for keeping uneaten food fresh.
12) Utensils: Plastic knives, spoons and forks are great and far better than losing your home's silverware.
13) Pocket Knife: Perfect for so many different situations.
You can cut a rope or even open a wine bottle with a pocket knife.
14) Toilet Paper: Don't forget! 15) Detergent: Cleaning your plates in between uses can save you from getting leftover food mess on other items.
16) Bug Spray: Nothing ruins a camping trip like mosquitoes and other biting bugs.
Make sure you spray yourself and the tent before you call it a night.
17) Flashlight: For night time tent repairs or any other emergencies in the dark.
18) Cell Phone: Don't leave this at home! You might be trying to get close to nature, but you don't want to lose contact with the outside world if you need help.
19) Bottles of Water: In case you find yourself without access to a clean water source.
20) Portable BBQ: For cooking your meals, plus the fresh fish that you are going to catch!
We all have a fond outdoor trip to recall, many of them end up being the best times of our lives - reconnecting with nature, spending time with friends and surviving away from the concrete jungle of the city.
Everyone also remembers that time that the can opener was forgotten, the matches left at home or the one pole for the tent that just couldn't be found.
Making sure you are prepared for your camping journey is the most important part of it - remember these 20 essential camping items on your next adventure.
1) Tent: The most important part of any camping trip! Don't forget the golden rule; if you are storing anything in the tent, buy one that is big enough for two people more than the number that will actually be using it.
2) Sleeping Bags: Some people decide that duvets and blankets will work - you'll learn the first time you get rain in the tent! 3) Sleeping Pad: Avoid back aches in the morning.
4) Pillows: Pillows are always good and often forgotten.
Much better than clothes stuffed into a backpack for your neck.
5) Folding Camping Chairs: Cooking lunch over a fire is great until you realise you have nowhere to sit.
6) First aid kit: Bandages, antiseptic, aspirin and gauze.
It's much safer to be prepared.
7) Plastic bags: For any kind of waste and cleaning up the campsite.
Also great if your clothes get wet.
8) Change of clothes: Nothing is worse than getting wet and having nothing to change into.
It never seems so bad when you first realise in the car on the way either.
9) Butane lighter: Don't rely in matches or the regular lighters that are small and can leak.
Butane lighters are far higher quality.
10) Can Opener: Everybody remembers the cans, but it's a frequent, angry realisation around the campsite that nobody brought the can opener.
11) Zip Lock Bags: Something else with many different uses.
Great for keeping uneaten food fresh.
12) Utensils: Plastic knives, spoons and forks are great and far better than losing your home's silverware.
13) Pocket Knife: Perfect for so many different situations.
You can cut a rope or even open a wine bottle with a pocket knife.
14) Toilet Paper: Don't forget! 15) Detergent: Cleaning your plates in between uses can save you from getting leftover food mess on other items.
16) Bug Spray: Nothing ruins a camping trip like mosquitoes and other biting bugs.
Make sure you spray yourself and the tent before you call it a night.
17) Flashlight: For night time tent repairs or any other emergencies in the dark.
18) Cell Phone: Don't leave this at home! You might be trying to get close to nature, but you don't want to lose contact with the outside world if you need help.
19) Bottles of Water: In case you find yourself without access to a clean water source.
20) Portable BBQ: For cooking your meals, plus the fresh fish that you are going to catch!
