Our Camping History 1963 to 1975
What is it that propels us to travel and camp? Is it something that resides in our itchy bones or is it something instilled by early experience? Maybe some of both, I don't know. My wife has the sa...
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The origins of camping are very interesting. At first it was rich people. Camping goes back 5-6 generations in my family. My Dad and grandfather were backpackers they just didn't call it that back in the 1920s and 30s. My relatives used to take wagons up to Mt St Helen's around 1900 for two weeks and camp out with all the aunts, uncles and cousins. They climbed the mountain before it blew up in the 1970s. My grandfather made an ice axe in shop class around 1910 because it was hard to buy one. My Dad taught me backpacking in 1960 and I started with wood and canvas Trapper Nelson pack board. Some of the relatives moved to Alaska in the 1930s.
