Camping Tips

Here is collection of camping tips sent in by readers of this website. If you have tips you would like to contribute, please email them to us at Camping Tips

• Rub liquid soap on the outside of pots and pans. The black soot will come right off after cooking over an open fire.
• Keep the bottom of your pots that you use over the open fire clean by wrapping them in tinfoil.
• Spray flies, wasps or bees with hairspray and watch them head for cover.
• Spray your garbage and trash with ammonia to keep animals away.
• Take some warmth from the campfire or stove to bed. Keep a pot of hot water simmering on the campfire and when you turn in fill up water bottles and place them in your sleeping bag. (make sure they are not hot enough to burn you!!!!!!!!!!!)
• Buy orange juice in plastic bags and freeze it so it can be used instead of ice in the cooler. Then,when it thaws out you have refreshing cold juice for later.
• Take a headlamp, instead of a flashlight,so your hands are free.
• When finished eating an orange, wipe exposed skin with the inside of the peel. Insects will stay far away from you.