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Beginners Guide to Camping Gear

Disclaimer: when I say beginners, I mean very beginners. My husband and I started with a clean slate, having no camping gear whatsoever we enlisted the help of friends and family to help us purchase our gear as part of our wedding registry, see what I did there? With our love for the National Parks we decided to book a seven night trip to Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks. During our first Parks trip to Yosemite, every morning as we left our cabin we would drive past all the camp sites filled with neat tents and the smell of scrambled eggs. I was envious. I had this itch to camp and I wanted to scratch it! So we decided we would camp four out of the seven nights on our trip to Wyoming. Both my husband and I are not what you would call avid campers. We may have camped a couple of times as kids but never as adults. So I enlisted the help of my super adventurous brother to help us camp for one night up in the White Mountains in New Hampshire as a test run. It was great...