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Well, there's camping and CAMPING.

Start with a bivouac, that's where you spend the night with only what you have in your pockets and perhaps a blanket. Finding a hollow log to sleep in can help as will a thick layer of dead leaves.

If you have a "cold camp" it can be tough, still with some
modern multi-fuel stoves it can be fairly comfortable with
hot chow and even hot water to wash. The addition of a sleeping pad and down bag can make it fairly comfy.

Moving up, you can then go one better with pack horses or jeep/truck and set up an outfitters wall tent, now you are talking style and comfort. These usually are heavy canvas, with a rain fly and have 4 or 5 foot sidewalls, usually with a small wood stove with vent pipe going out through a fireproof gasket in the roof.

We often camp in the dead of winter like this and it makes it all possible, one can awake in the morning, toss some pine lightered into the stove with some lamp oil, roll over in the sleeping bag, and in 15 minutes the tent is warm and toasty and you can then make bacon and eggs/coffee etc.

If you have a dutch oven you can dig a pit, build a fire in it, then place a pot roast,with potatos, carrots and onions in it, wrap it in tinfoil, take out half the coals,put the dutch oven in the pit cover with coals, then dirt, and leave the rest of the day to explore and have fun. When you get back, dig it up, take off the foil and have a feast fit for any table. Then maybe some Jamesons and a spot of cards and it time for taps, go out take a leak under the stars and it's off to dream land.

Can't be beat.

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