For Alex McCollough of Haslett, Michigan, camping involves a tent and little or no cell service.
McCollough, 29, goes tent camping every chance he gets, and he even proposed to his wife on the way to a campground a couple years ago.
"Camping can range from setting up a tent in the backyard to car camping to a light hike into a meadow off a trail, " says Michele Orr, REI's director of merchandising, whose company sells all the gear and gadgets a camper could desire.
The victims ranged from a 9-year-old Norwegian girl who disappeared in 1988 but whose body still hasn't been found, to the Dutch tourists in their 30s who were stabbed in their tent while camping in the northern Lapland province.
Unless you're ready to backpack 40-plus pounds of cookware, camping fuel and a tent over uneven ground for days, your chances of truly getting away from people--even in the 22-million-acre greater Yellowstone ecosystem, the Lower 48's last great wilderness--are limited.
In August, two adults and three children were rescued from their tent at a camping park near Newquay, after being overcome by carbon monoxide fumes from a barbecue.
Earlier this year, six-year-old Isabelle Harris, from Gosport, Hampshire, died of carbon-monoxide poisoning after her parents brought a disposable barbecue into their tent to keep warm during a camping trip in the New Forest.
Bob Pitney from the North Texas Camping Association explained to us that his air-conditioned tent would actually save emissions.
For example, the tent company might decide that in year 3 they will start selling other camping products in order to increase their market reach.
While my camping colleagues all had only one room, I could invite others over to lounge and chat in my 3 room tent mansion: Welcome to Chez Jess!
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