Time outdoors with your dads?

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I was wondering if any of you ladies spent much time camping, fishing, etc. With your fathers or father figures while growing up.

My daughter and I go backpacking in Colorado every year and camp on our small place when we can. I love those moments and hope she will continue doing them when she is grown and on her own. My dad passed when I was little so I'm thrilled that we do the things I missed out on together.

Any outdoorsy stories?
 

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Spent a ton of time outdoors with dad - camping, hunting, fishing, and really learning to rough it. Learned about picking plants and berries, wild teas, etc. He bought old trail motor bikes to take out in the bush for long trips.

Lots a really good memories from that. I can still gut a fish pretty well, but my camping days are far behind me. I’m more 4 star than tent these days. Still, it’s great experience and one I will always remember.
 
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My treasured time with my dad was hunting. Despite a very busy and demanding job, he was always supportive of my school/athletic/charitable activities... but hunting was our special one-on-one time. Time target shooting to practice, time scouting the woods for deer trails, spotlighting for big bucks, etc. It was our time together. Each year for the opening day of buck season, we'd get up at o-dark-thiry, go to a local fire hall for pancake breakfast, then sneak into the woods before sunrise. At lunch, we'd go to the farmer's house to get lunch, get warm, and catch up on the years' events... then back into the woods until dark. My dad was a man of few words, so this kind of activity suited him just fine.

I can't see Clark's Teaberry gum (my choice) or Hormel dried beef (his choice) without having fond memories of this time with my dad. Hope you're forming similar wonderful associations with your daughter.
 

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One story I have is from when we went camping in Colorado. We took an extra scenic route on a drive in some place called Phantom Canyon. We came across a very rickety bridge and he made me get out of the pickup while he slowly drove the truck over it. Later he joked that he didn't know what he was thinking, if the truck had not made it across the bridge.
 
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My family would go camping, hiking, water skiing (and inner tubing, knee boarding, wake boarding, etc), down hill snow skiing, and while on road trips we went zipping around on a rental snow mobile a couple of times.

I miss the family camping trips. Spending time with my dad, spending time with my cousins, eating huckleberry cobbler from fresh picked berries...
 
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Yes used to go camping as a family mostly on dartmoor, I'm one of three girls and I know my Dad would've liked to have had a son to do stuff with but we all made up for it especially me.
Since I've a family of my own now we also take our kids camping at least twice a year, sometimes dartmoor but my hubby also likes to go up to Scotland so he can fish and all that. It always amazes me just how remote it is! X
 
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We used to go shooting, we used to go search the desert for arrowheads and pottery pieces (not exactly legal, but pretty much everyone here does it), we would hike in the mountains... It was always with the whole family though.

Except for shooting. There were many times it was just me and my papa. My mom and sister didn't Enjoy it as much as my pops and me did. In our state it's totally fine to just go out of City limits and pop off rounds all day. I myself don't think it should be that easy, but it always has been so growing up I just assumed it was normal.
 

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I feel like I was introduced to my father outdoors somewhere, maybe on the Ranch or in the woods. We were always outdoors. I learned to ride a horse before a bicycle. In fact, I would hardly ride my bicycle because there was no pavement around.

He taught me how to hunt and fish. We'd go camping with is brother and my male cousins. I was always the lone girl. I was not treated differently.

He taught me how to garden and grown things pretty and things to eat. I had dreams of taking over the ranch one day. He still has the ranch, although it's shrunk quite a bit.

My little sister did not enjoy the outdoors. She rarely rode horses, although sometimes it was just she and I riding to the creek. My dad knew I would go swimming in the creek and he told me to always wear something because you never know who's around.

The hired hands used to skinny dip in that creek. I could hear them hooping it up. I'd go skinny dipping in the same creek, too, but I was never bothered. My Dad told the head cowboy to make sure that no one went down the trail if I went into the woods by myself. They guarded me!

I tried to get Dad to go camping a few years ago. He said his camping days are over. His bones don't take the ground real well. I miss that, but I still go camping a lot. And I think about him every time I go.
 
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