Quad Survival: Quad Survival's camping trip aka Ryan's tent shakedown

A few weeks ago Eric, Ryan, and I (Jared) went on a two night, wait O.K. two nights for me one night for Ryan and Eric camping trip on the Namekagon river at the Earl Landing. I have camped at the earl landing quite a bit and I typically enjoy the experience. In fact I had already camped there once this Summer. The Earl landing has free campsites with a fire ring and picnic table and has a 3 night limit per spot on camping. You can go to the landing and sign up ahead of time for a campsite if you want on a sheet of paper and so far I've had no trouble with people in my camp site I have signed up for (I hope that continues).

The main reason we went camping on this trip is that I had a few days off in a row, Eric really wanted to go camping, and Ryan got a new tent and wanted to try it out. We ended up picking this location after talking Eric out of some crazy location where none of us could carry our gear to or something like that. Anyway we got to the camp site early in the morning and set up our tents. I put in my two crayfish traps and Eric put in his new minnow trap. Eric and Ryan then decided to go fishing and I went tubing with my friends down the river. I don't know what they did while I was gone so I can't write to much about it. I got back from tubing and checked my crayfish traps and low and behold I caught a shiner minnow. Not really what I wanted to catch so I let him go. Eric and Ryan did a little bit more fishing and Eric came back with some smallmouth bass. One of them was pretty nice as you can see in the picture. Anyway, as true men Eric filleted the bass and we had a good old fashioned fish fry. Eric added to the fish fry though some venison nuggets fried up which were amazing and the best food on the trip. After that we decided to sit around the fit and I guess just talk. Eric and Ryan decided they would have a long night discussing intellectual things. I think they went to bed around 3 A.M.

The next day was rough for Ryan and Eric. I checked my crayfish traps and caught a little turtle and let him go. I spent most of the day convincing Eric and Ryan to stay another night, but they had enough camping for one day or something. By afternoon I got Eric and Ryan going and we went to Hayward saw some sweet cars visited a friend, but that doesn't have to do with the outdoors. We had venison nuggets again and I tried to convince Eric and Ryan to stay another night again, but they would have none of it and started packing up. Just as they started packing up I turned on my weather radio and there was a storm coming in something like 5 minutes. I informed Eric and Ryan and then went to my car and checked on my phone to confirm indeed a thunderstorm was coming. Eric and Ryan decided to keep taking down their stuff anyway and ended up getting stuck in the storm. Since my tent was the only one left up they all dove in it for the duration of the storm. After it ended Eric and Ryan packed up and left. I went to Spooner, got some food, went back to the tent, and spent the night in there sleeping with storms off and on. In the morning I pulled my crayfish traps and they were empty. I'm beginning to think crayfish don't exist anymore. I then picked up my campsite and went to work. That was the end of the camping trip.

The camping trip was pretty fun and the view from out campsite was as always beautiful. Free camping and beautiful views reminds me of why I love Wisconsin. Within the next few days I'll put up a blog post of Eric and I's next adventure which we did this last weekend. Look for that soon until then here are pictures of our camping trip below.