Camping in Today's World

Even though the cities grow larger and larger and our natural playgrounds get continually smaller.

Even though everyone has at his disposal switches and faucets which produce light, water, heat, music, and entertainment.

And even though the police protect us from burglars and bad neighbors and the firemen keep us from burning up - there still remains one area where we are completely dependent upon ourselves.

A place where the laws of the prairie rule, where the enemy lurks, where we have to live like Robinson Crusoe or the Swiss Family Robinson.

Where we are on the warpath like the Sioux on the Little Big Horn River or the Apaches from Salt River Canyon once were.

This place is the camping ground.

Wherever you live, you can find your own place to camp out. It might be a forested wilderness, but it needn't be.

A park, a public picnic area - even your own back yard - can be transformed into a deserted island or Robin Hood's glen, and when you go farther afield, during summer vacation, perhaps, the possibilities are limitless.

In any season or in any weather, your Robinson-trapper-pioneer-native life begins there.

It is there that you can relive the adventures of the last of the Mohicans and blaze your own trails through the wonderful world of the outdoors.

Enjoy, Don Trosper
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