Christopher Run Campground-Personal Narrative Analysis

The vibrant greens, the hastening winds through the trees, the mosquitoes biting where mosquito spray is lacking, and the raccoons stealing the last box of lucky charms, these are some of the joys experienced in the great outdoors. The outdoors is one of my favorite get-away locations. From before my adolescence to this day, I am an outdoorsman: From camping at Devils Lake, to canoeing the Canadian Boundary Waters, and even sailing the Florida Keys. Camping is enjoyable for me because it is a place of freedom, a place of relaxation, and a place where I can create memories with my family and friends.

Forests, lakes, and rivers are the places I love to spend my time. No matter what I am doing outside I will always be happy. My favorite part about being an outdoorsman has to be dressing for the weather. Living in Minnesota I learned the weather can change overnight, and I am always prepared. My eagerness to be outside was influenced by my family at a young age. I enjoy hiking through beautiful forests and cross country skiing over frozen snow covered lakes. I spend so much time in nature I learn to appreciate things on a whole different level. Nature has so much beauty and mystery it cannot be

During the summer before my Freshman year I went to hell and back, and by hell I mean Philmont scout ranch. Just a little background, Philmont scout ranch is 140,117 thousand acres of big rugged, dry, mountainous terrain. I knew what I was getting into, Ever since I joined boy scouts Philmont was regarded as the ultimate scouting experience, so of course i was pressured into that. Eventually summer rolled around and before I knew it I was on a train to New Mexico.

I live in a small town that goes by the name of Lafayette. The population is 4,500. Everyone knows where everything is, when everything is, and what everything is. As a child, my mother and I would go to a beautiful waterfall on a small back road when the sun was shining, when the trees and rocks were just right, and when it was damp and perfect for four wheeler rides. The Union Camp waterfall is majestic. The scenery makes a person speechless. We would always go when the weather was perfect. The waterfall is one childhood memory I will always remember. The activities my mother and I would do were always a blast. My trips to Union Camp waterfall are memorable because of the scenery, the weather, and the activities.

I live on Turtle Point Cove in North Ridge, it's just a little bit into Saltillo. I’ve grown up in that house. I live next to my close friends. I live near my cousins, they live just a couple houses down from us. Almost every weekend we all have a cookout and we either go to my friends house or ours, since we are next door neighbors if never matters whose house it’s at.

If I was in this palace I would look around the whole castle. After that, I would play a game of basketball. Then, I would order a large plate of chicken fried rice and a large Dr. Pepper. Next, I would take a 2 hour nap. After that, I would invited Drake, Josh, Justin, and Elam over to watch a basketball game on my brand new, 200 inch, flat screen TV. Then, we would get some warm snowsuits and go outside and have a snowball fight.

At the end of the school year last year, a few of my friends and I decided that we wanted to go camping at Spring Lake. We signed up to do the “off the grid” camping so we could kayak to our camp site. The fun began when we were putting our kayaks into the lake with all of our gear in them and one of my friends fell into the lake. After that we knew we were going to have a fun and hysterical night. We then began our twenty minute kayak to our camping site. On the way there, we had many conversations and shared many laughs. When we arrived at the campsite we decided to split into two groups. Two of us would kayak back to our vehicles to get the rest of our stuff and the other two would stay and begin to set up the campsite. So, my friend Trenton

National presentation at the National Camping and Environmental Education Institute, conversations and conference calls with the members of the Camping and Environmental Education Taskforce of NAE4-HA

It was a normal weekend when my brother ,Seth, and I were riding our dirt bikes in the trails just by our neighborhood. My buddy Jacob found us on the trails and decided to ride with us so we let him lead. We started to follow him and we ended up in a trail that only he goes down into. He went so far ahead that we lost him and couldn’t hear his bike anymore. Seth said that he was turning around so I turned around with him and we started heading home. I remember not paying attention to anything but my brother. He started fading, just then when I thought he left without me, he turns on his lights. I checked my watch and it was 12:00 o’clock noon but it was pitch black. I turn on my lights and

During the long weekend in September I went camping with Allison Rader in my backyard, but it turned out to be a catastrophe. Around 9pm, we decided to put up a tent on my back deck and camp outside. Allison and I gave it our all to put the tent up for about 40 minutes, but we were baffled at the complex instructions. Finally, we gave up. So,we got my dad to help us put the tent up because of our struggle.

Each September, October, and November morning, I sprang out of bed to cross off the day, counting down until the arrival day of my friends Austin and Alexis. They reside in a neighboring town of Seattle, Washington, and anticipated their visit to Texas as well. Once each week, we would call and plan our time according to the activities that they wanted to do. When the Douglas family flew into Texas, they stayed at the Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine. My frugal mom researched and discovered Great Wolf Lodge water park tickets for sale, and purchased them. This allowed my family and me the opportunity to play with Austin and Alexis in the humid indoor waterpark on the crisp November day. Neither Austin nor I desired to journey on the “River Canyon

Friday- Today my family arrived at our cabin located a few miles from the beautiful Mesa Verde national park. It was late at night, so we all fell asleep quickly.

Everyone was excited to be going to Dorney Park on August 30th. We had to bring money for food and swim suits for the wild water kingdom. It was an hour and a half bus ride. On the bus we did challenges. Someone brought 4 bags of hot Cheetos so we got in to 4 teams of 2 and each team got a bag a Cheetos. These Cheetos were in the big bag and they were the puffs. We had to eat the whole bag before 5 minutes. Our hand were bright red. Tiara and I were on the same team. When five minutes was up my team lost and Asia and Danielle won. After that I took a short peaceful nap and when I woke up we were ten minutes away.

283). From a psychological perspective, camping was an effective way for my parents to teach my siblings and I about nature. Furthermore, I felt a psychological connection to nature which enhanced my leisure experience. In my leisure experience description I wrote

When I met Ashley, she dug her nails into my arm, and whacked her head on my shoulder. My initial reaction to the gesture was, “Great, all I’m going to get out of this week is scratches and bruises.” Little did I know, meeting Ashley would inspire me to live my life differently.