[Sportsandrec] camping

[Kendra Schaber]

Hi Julie, I have gone camping many times. The camping that I have done is 
the regular camping in tents and an ocational RV. Take along a slate and 
styless or any other nonelectronical note taking item just in case you need 
to take notes without relaying on electricity. Also take your cane or guide 
dog so that you can use them to travel with. If you have something that uses 
batteries that you don't charge up, go ahead and bring more batteries than 
you think you need. Use such things like your tent or camp fire for a land 
mark. Also use a body of water as a land mark in relation to your camp site. 
Get to know where things like the bathrooms are or if not a bathroom, where 
the spot to take care of bathroom duties is located. As for no paths, use 
big land marks like the cabbins and a nearby body of water. You can usually 
hear water running or moving when you are close enough to it. Use open 
spaces in the treese as clues. You might have to count them as you go along.
Kendra
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julie J." <julielj at neb.rr.com>
To: "Sports and Recreation for the Blind Discussion List" 
<sportsandrec at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 3:55 PM
Subject: [Sportsandrec] camping


> Heya!
>
> It's me with another adventure vacation question.  Last year it was sea 
> kayaking, clam digging and fishing.  This year my teenage son and I are 
> going camping.  Actually we are going to survival school where we will be 
> learning how to build a fire without matches, tie knots, make rope from 
> native plants, which plants are edible, how to make tools from natural 
> materials at hand and all sorts of other stuff.  I'm affectionately 
> referring to this adventure as my opportunity to learn independent living 
> skills. *smile*
>
> I looked at loads of opportunities we could utilize to do this and settled 
> on one of the less intense options.  We are going to be staying in a cabin 
> and doing day hikes to learn and practice the survival skills we have been 
> taught.  I'm not quite as adventurous as I once was. Sleeping under a 
> hedge and being reliant on figuring out which mushrooms are edible won't 
> be a part of this trip.
>
> Still it will be a lot of new things for me and a lot of skills I haven't 
> used for around 15 years.  I don't anticipate having any particular 
> difficulties because of my blindness, but I'm trying to figure out as much 
> as I can ahead of time.
>
> I would love to hear from people who have been camping both the normal 
> variety and the rougher sort of survival camping that is becoming popular. 
> Also ideas on keeping oriented where there are no paths would be helpful. 
> If anyone can think of specific non electronic blindness equipment I 
> should take along that would also be helpful.
>
> I welcome all thoughts and ideas.  If you can think of something that I'm 
> overlooking in preparing for this trip please let me know.
>
> Thanks in advance!  You guys always have awesome ideas and have been 
> really helpful.
>
> Julie
>
>
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