[RKDinOKC]

Oh yeah,

I also carried one of the bulky Kodak Browny Hawkeye cameras on those hiking trips.

I am amazed at the stuff we did with the equipment we had and how much more fun and easier it would have been with the cool stuff they have today.

Our tents were canvas and had wooden poles! On long hikes we just packed a plastic tarp to make our own lean tos to keep dry. None of this fancy rip stop nylon stuff. Or super lightweight tents, bags, mats, etc. Even my new backpack was canvas. My hiking boots were tennis shoes.

When on my order of he arrow initiation they had us grab anything we thought we might need. It was dry, but in the middle of the night they came around making thunder sounds and dumping a bucket of water on each camper to make them uncomfortable. When I heard the thunder noises I just rolled over so the underside of my old sleeping back was up. When they dumped the bucket of water on me, I didn't even wake up because the underside of my bag was rubberized and the water just splashed off.