If the outdoors is calling you for a summer trip, then treat yourself right and optimize your campsite.
- Go Barefoot - Pitch your tent on slick rock or flattened pine needles, and you can slip out in the middle of the night without putting your shoes on.
- Look Up - Dangling branches and dead trees can fall on your tent (and your head) in high winds, so set up your tent in a clearing.
- Get Higher - Flash floods cause about 100 camping fatalities a year. Keep your tent at least 200 feet from any streams, and make sure you’re not near a side canyon or on low-lying terrain that could flood easily.
- Respect Fire - Burning embers can easily drift 10 feet and melt holes in your tent. Sleep 20 feet or more from the campfire.
- Cover Your Tracks - A charred fire pit marks your favorite campsite for other people. To avoid this, build a low-impact fire on a metal garbage can lid perforated for ventilation, or scrape soil from the roots of a fallen tree onto a tarp. When finished, return the soil.
- Bear Responsibility - There are 800,000 black bears in the US and Canada, so take precautions. Hang food from a branch well out of reach, and keep cooking materials at least 100 feet from your tent.
- Build A Kitchen - A flat, waist-high rock is the perfect workbench for your stove, and after you’ve been hiking all day you’ll want to save your back by standing upright while you cook.
- Treat Yourself Right - Dig a latrine or put your portable toilet in a secluded spot with a nice view. Be sure it is downwind and well away from the kitchen and tent.
Source: Men’s Journal
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