The Adventure Life with Steve Casimiro Everything I Know About Being Green I Learned from Camping

Text and photograph by West Coast Editor Steve Casimiro

1. Ignore a small problem—the beginnings of a blister, for example—and it’s guaranteed to become a big problem.

2. If you don’t plan ahead, you will run out of toilet paper. Neither pine needles nor pages of the Audubon Society field guides are worthy substitutes.

3. Carry a big backpack enough times and you’ll learn to take only what you need. 

4. The more you know, the less you need.

5. Don’t poop near the water. Don’t poop near your tent. This has long-term value for your health and short-term value for your shoes.

6. Waste the batteries in your headlamp playing laser tag and it won’t work when you need it most.

7. Methane trapped by anything—sleeping bag, tent, atmosphere—can’t be good.

8. It takes less energy to put on your jacket than to start a fire.

9. Don’t cook more food than you can eat. It depletes your supplies and attracts critters that will scare the bejesus out of you at 2 a.m.

10. Water is precious. When filtered from a desert pothole miles away, spilling it can feel like a tragedy.

11. Leave your trash and it will be there longer than you think. Pick up someone else’s trash and you’ve made a difference.

12. All trash is your trash.

13.  When the Pop-Tarts are gone, they’re gone for good. And forget the toilet paper, that’s when you’re really screwed.

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