My worst camping experience was having a leech drop down my shirt while we were hiking to our camping spot.

It was a wet weather day, the backpack weighed a tonne, and there were leeches on ferns everywhere, it was unavoidable to get bitten by one or more leeches. We couldn't stop hiking, as we we running behind schedule, so I just let the leech be, until we got to the camp site, pitched up the tent, went inside and promptly got rid of said leech. Left a nice blood stain on my shirt, and it promptly freaked my friend out, who is squirmish about bugs of any nature. I still have a small scar where the leech had got at me.

That night we made some macaroni, using a small kero stove, and because all my friends were so freaked out by bugs after a whole day of avoiding being bitten, I was the only one game enough to go down to the stream to get water (where a few other campers joined me, and someone promptly had a couple of leeches stuck on them).

Then it was a night of eating half cooked macaroni - probably the last time we ever left that person in charge of cooking, digging our own toilets, and a restless night of sleeping, while deers were making all sorts of weird noises for the rest of the evening (the camp spot was near a deer park).

But I don't think my worse camping experience was that bad, a friend of mind got bitten by a leech when she was going to the toilets, one time she went camping. She didn't even realise it at first, until she felt kind of tingly. Urgh...makes me squirmish just thinking about it.

I went camping in the remotest part of northern France with my brother. We arrived in the wilderness with a car packed full of everything we needed; a stash of mind bending drugs, some quality music and copius amounts of food. However, when we decided it was time to eat we realised we had forgotten to bring a can opener or any cutlery. Whilst being fairly whacked we spent the rest of the week smashing cans on rocks and eating with our hands. I love camping I do!! Also I can't get hold of this t-shirt which is my favourite t-shirt by a long stretch on the www. Please help me!!
Alex

My worst camping experience wasn't even that bad but it was the most trouble. Me and two friends planned it and went and bought hot dogs and all that crap then headed to the desired site. It was full. So we headed to the next place we could think of. One of the friends was 17 at the time so we couldn't get in. So we head to another place and there are no "camping areas." So we decide not to set up on the side of the road and get eaten alive by gnats. SO we head back to my house which has a huge backyard. Got a fire going, set up our tent and it was like we were out in the wild! Except it was my backyard.

It turned out pretty great except me waking up in the middle of the night and having to get out of the tent in the cold and pee in my neighbors yard.

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