CAMP Weekend Reading - Issue No. 6
Here is the sixth issue of our CAMP Weekend Reading, a list of interesting articles focusing on camping, the outdoors and motorcycles that we stumbled upon over the past couple of weeks. Enjoy. Do you have any suggestion for articles to include in the next weekend reading list? Drop us an email.
Let's bring back outdoors rites of passage for kids: "Not so long ago, American kids took a pathway to becoming grown-ups that included a series of rigorous and rewarding steps: increasingly challenging labor on farms or at home, their first fish and first hunt, permission to roam over a zone wider than the driveway. While ceremonies like bar mitzvahs and quinceañeras—and, to some extent, qualifying for a driver’s license—still serve to initiate children into adulthood, we’ve replaced numerous other rites of passage with just one: a kid’s first smartphone." Amen.
The misadventures of leading bike group tours - nice story written by a woman who used to love bicycle touring...until she decided to lead group tours as a job. For obvious reasons I can relate to some of her ramblings...
Bears invading a Russian town. I am going to be camping for 9 days in Yellowstone National Park as of next week for work (I live a hard life), and bears are always a concern on these adventures. This long article about a Russian town literally invaded by tens of bears made me discover we also have to worry about Shatun Bears, i.e. bears that are too malnourished to hibernate, and so attack everything in a desperate quest for food. Great.