To heat a tent on a cold night, fill a bucket with stones piping hot from the camp fire. Invert and cover with bucket. Good as a stove. [[80]]
CHAPTER VII
HOW TO CHOOSE A CAMP
Securing Permission—Church Grounds and School-yard Camp Sites—Municipal Camp Sites—Autumn and Winter Camping—Water Supply—Wells and Springs Doubtful—Selecting a Camping Site—Disposal of Refuse—Latrines—National and State Forest Camps, General Regulations—State of New York Regulations—New York State Parks and Forest Preserves—Adirondack and Catskill State Parks.
Securing Permission
It will be obvious that the camper should not camp or even park his car on or in front of private property without asking permission of the owner or occupant of such property. Of course, where the motor camper is in a wild and uninhabited region it may not be practicable to seek permission, and in such a case he may take a chance on trespassing. But as a rule this cannot be advised as either right or wise.
So many motor campers in the past have abused the hospitality of farmers by carelessly and even wantonly breaking down shrubbery, leaving rubbish, injuring trees and otherwise comporting themselves as nuisances that in some sections the farmers are hostile to the motor camper and so the decent, law-abiding man has to suffer for the sins of the vandal. [[81]]
Notwithstanding the abuse of hospitality on the part of some motor campers, the good citizen and gentleman will not find it difficult to deal with the average farmer, who will be as quick to appreciate fair and courteous treatment as he is ready to resent the misconduct of those who abuse his hospitality.