Are you planning a solo camping trip? If so, then this article is the perfect guide for you! First times are always a bit scary and unnerving, well you do not have to be ashamed of it that is usually the case with everyone’s first solo camping trip. But the fear will eventually be manageable as long as you fully prepare yourself on the stuff that you need to prepare for such camping trip. Below are the basic things you need to have to make that camping trip a perfect and delightful experience.
Survival Gear
One of the things that you really need the most during solo camping trips are your survival gears. So, to put it simply you will be letting yourself be one with nature by staying in the outdoors of the wilderness, it is only logical to bring with you tools that will enable you to survive in such setting.
What these survival items are, might vary from the environment of the campsite, but it usually has some first aid kit, fire starters, emergency lights, ropes, knives, and some electronic devices and extra batteries. So in choosing which gears and stuff to bring, you have to keep in mind the things that you need in order to survive in the wilderness and bring those things with you.
Camping Shelter
Now many people do argue the definition of camping as others only refer to it when going outdoors and staying in tents, but in other cases people refer to camping as having a caravan pulled onto a site in the wilderness and camp there for a certain duration. Now both cases have their own reasons, but regardless of how you define camping, it is basic necessity to pitch your camp, whether it be a truck with a 4WD awning or a tent or a caravan, you need some basic shelter to stay in the wild in order to enjoy the camping activity. Maybe at the end of the day it doesn’t matter what your shelter would be as long as you enjoy it and clean up after you are done.
Camping Gear
In such environments, you will also need you camping gear, which includes you sleeping bag, camp chairs, food prep utensils for cooking and eating, food foraging utilities, and even garbage bags. Now there might be more, but then again it depends on the environment where you decide to camp in.
Because there are sites, which are fully immersed in the wilderness thus you need some extra stuff especially when you opt to stay for longer durations in such places. There are also places where the environment is much more prepared and tamed, so you can have lesser camping gears to bring with you in such places.
One goal in the art of camping is not just to enjoy the outdoors but it is about conquering the fear and storm inside by letting yourself become immersed in the beauty of the wilderness outside. To quench that thirst for adventure by indulging yourself in that moment where you become alone with yourself during a camping trip is one of the greatest feelings of all.