How The Site Camping Expert
Came To Be…
| So, who is this person who’s telling you all about camping? Well, My name is Robin, and I’m the ‘person’ behind Camping Expert . com. |
I first started camping as a young child, so young, that I can’t really recall the age when I first started. The first type of camping I did was Car camping, which is what most people do. Having grown up in Ontario, Canada, our family’s annual two week holiday was a camping trip. This took us to different parts of Ontario, from Algonquin and up the Bruce trail.
At 16, my mother sent me away on a YMCA Camp Queen Elizabeth backcountry camping trip. I got to choose from the catalogue, and chose a Kayak trip in Killarney.
I learned A LOT during this trip. I learned, that:
• bringing extra things was heavy and painful,
• some camping foods such as powdered potatoes taste disgusting, no matter how hungry you are or how fresh the air (good trip food is important)
• Waterproofing is important,
• Kayaks are not fun to portage,
• Maps are sometimes incorrect and inaccurate,
• Great weather is important – we had 7 days of straight sun and it was glorious!
After this trip, I wanted to camp more. I was hoping to teach my family how to interior camp, with the little knowledge that I’d learned, but the following summer I ended up getting a job in a park!
Yes, I got paid to camp!
I got a job in Quetico Park in Northern Ontario, and there, started to hone my camping skills. I went from a working camper to a trip leader, and have spent thousands of kilometres, and hundreds of days Interior Canoeing.
Leading trips, I became very skilled and became pretty proficient in all things camping.
But, why a website?
Beyond camping, I love learning new things and wanted to learn how to make a website. And what better way, than to make one myself? I
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