You might think that living in the country would make us sick of nature and camping would be the last thing on our minds, well if you thought that, you'd be wrong. We love camping and not just any old time of camping, but Rendezvous camping.
What's that you say, well Rendezvous camping is a celebration of the Pioneer Fur Trade Era (Pre-1840).
It's camping early 1800's style. Camp fire cooking, black powder rifle shooting, tomahawk/knife throwing contest, bow & arrow shooting, trading goods, all kinds of things to do or just relax around the camp fire drinking the finest coffee ever percolated over a fire. We camp with very few modern day luxuries such as a cooler with food and cots to rest our weary and aging bones. The rest is mostly period correct, usually nothing later than 1840.
It's nice to wake up in the morning knowing all I have to do today is forage for berries, make coffee and fry up some pancakes.
What's that you say, well Rendezvous camping is a celebration of the Pioneer Fur Trade Era (Pre-1840).
It's camping early 1800's style. Camp fire cooking, black powder rifle shooting, tomahawk/knife throwing contest, bow & arrow shooting, trading goods, all kinds of things to do or just relax around the camp fire drinking the finest coffee ever percolated over a fire. We camp with very few modern day luxuries such as a cooler with food and cots to rest our weary and aging bones. The rest is mostly period correct, usually nothing later than 1840.
It's nice to wake up in the morning knowing all I have to do today is forage for berries, make coffee and fry up some pancakes.
For example this weekend my daughter and I went into the woods and picked a big bowl of wild black berries, then made blackberry pancakes with them yummy.
The kids who come have such a good time. They can just be kids, play ring-around-the-rosie, throw hay, play tag till dusk and be safe no matter which campsite they are in. Everyone looks out for everyone elses kids and a good time is had by all. 
My wife Kris and my mother in-law won 2nd and 3rd place in a pie baking contest.
Kris also won first in women’s tomahawk throw, 3rd in a frying pan toss, and 3rd in a fire starting contest (and she was the only female). The fire starting contest is where you start a camp fire without matches or lighters just your flint and steel. Yep she's a keeper alright...
Me, well I’m not very competitive, but I do enjoy many of the activities. Though usually relaxing by the fire or in my period correct canvas tent (that is 12x14) is more my style.
The weather was nice this year 77 degrees by day and low 50's at night.
Next year we hope to do a little more camping , maybe not in the fall because right now were up to our elbows in apples and pears and tomatoes.......
My wife Kris and my mother in-law won 2nd and 3rd place in a pie baking contest.
Kris also won first in women’s tomahawk throw, 3rd in a frying pan toss, and 3rd in a fire starting contest (and she was the only female). The fire starting contest is where you start a camp fire without matches or lighters just your flint and steel. Yep she's a keeper alright...Me, well I’m not very competitive, but I do enjoy many of the activities. Though usually relaxing by the fire or in my period correct canvas tent (that is 12x14) is more my style.
The weather was nice this year 77 degrees by day and low 50's at night.
Next year we hope to do a little more camping , maybe not in the fall because right now were up to our elbows in apples and pears and tomatoes.......
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