News stories of interest for our camping rental customers:

Parks Canada hopes to spark camping interest

Camping used to be a very Canadian thing. I remember the excitement of staying overnight in a backyard "tent" - it consisted of sheets draped over lawn furniture, as I recall - when I was about eight. Then came a Cub/Scout outing in the north woods, where encountering a mother bear and two cubs was only slightly scarier than the Sunday morning I had to help make pancakes for the whole camp. When my daughter was a teenager, the call of the wild was the May Two-Four weekend at a local conservation area or private campground. Thirty years later, she's switched to wine but still loves crawling into a sleeping bag at one of the provincial parks.

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http://www.lfpress.com/travel/2011/04/20/18046571.html

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Extreme Sierra: Hike offers a gib challenge

Backpacking across the Sierra Nevada as a high school freshman changed Chris Casado's life forever.

Now, Casado wants to use that experience to help change the lives of others.

Casado, a 31-year-old Orinda resident is co-founder of Trans Sierra Extreme Challenge, which this summer is guiding a series of 75-mile hikes across Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. The nine-day trek traverses some of the most remote areas of the parks before culminating in an ascent of Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous U.S.

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http://www.modbee.com/2011/04/20/1654184/extreme-sierra.html

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