Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Camping Safety: Make Sure You Are Safe

By Lucille Green

Camping is fun and a great custom for many households, however, camping out can be dangerous and certain safety safeguards need to be made. Safety should be the most important aspect of your camping out trip here are a few things to think about on your next camping trip.

You should analyze the place of your camping out before doing anything else. You want to be particular and look for things like broken glass and other trash that could cause a possible problem. While you should invariably leave your camping out site better than when you found it, not all people live up to that high standard and you may be caught with the the consequences.

Before you setup camp take some time to tidy up the camping site. You also want to make a point that there are no protruding sticks or sharp rocks around that could cause an accident if someone were to excursion on them or onto them. It's important to keep your camp site neat and clean to head off avertable accidents.

You should make a point that the area where you are going to do camping does not has any kind of restrictions on campfires, before you go there to camp out. At certain times, dry circumstances or forest fires can cause a restriction to be placed on the use of campfires while camping out. When it's windy you may prefer to avoid a campfire as the wind can make the fire to spread fast to different areas of your campground. Be sure to always have water around to put out the flames and don't go to sleep unless you smother the fire or a camping excursion can become runaway fast if you are not careful about fire safety.

When you go camping out, make sure you have a emergency first aid kit with you and drink lots of water. This way you and your immediate family will stay hydrated. Try to see if you may be allergic to something, like to bee stings before you go on a camping trip. You don't want to learn that you're vulnerable to a bee sting when you're a good distance away from the nearest hospital. An epipen or other medicine is essential to bring along if you have serious allergies or allergic reactions to bites or stings. Before you leave home check to see what types of poisonous plants and animals are in the location and be ready to deal with them on your camping out trip should the need arise.

Memories can be formed and fun can be had with a camping trip. If you take the appropriate safety measures when you go, you will find that your excursion will go well and worry free. Make a point to keep safety first and your trip will go off without a hitch! - 2368

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