# A DopeFest proposal (Camp Cecil) . . . (suggestions wanted). **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 20, 2003, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-proposal-camp-cecil-suggestions-wanted/220165 "2003-12-20T13:44:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-proposal-camp-cecil-suggestions-wanted/220165/1 "2003-12-20T13:44:26Z")
An honest proposal for the Teeming Millions: Would you be willing to go to a Dopefest, anywhere, where you went _camping_ for a weekend? And I’m kicking around about the idea. What if, someone planned a Dopefest in a national forest like Glacier or Yellowstone, figured out a couple of scenic hikes, a bonfire or two (and a few beers and steaks), maybe **Bad Astronimer** on hand for some stargazing [sub]Good Sir, what form of currency may I bribe you in[/sub]? Would you go? I’m thinking that once I get back from a little three-month ‘business trip’ overseas, I’ll have some time I can use to plan just such an event. Drop me a line here if you’re interested. Also, what would you want to have with you/at _Camp Cecil_? Totally out of the blue, I’d pick June or July for a tentative date. When it’s warmer, and a little more pleasant outside. Tripler Like I said, I’m kickin’ around the idea. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-proposal-camp-cecil-suggestions-wanted/220165/2 "2003-12-20T13:45:42Z")
Make that _Bad Astron **o** mer_. Sorry! I’ll add a six pack of any cold, carbonated beverage to your fee. Tripler Damn keyboard operator. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-proposal-camp-cecil-suggestions-wanted/220165/3 "2003-12-20T13:47:09Z")
Camping? Nah. Let sleeping bags lie, I say. ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-proposal-camp-cecil-suggestions-wanted/220165/4 "2003-12-20T14:00:47Z")
Hey, sounds like a fun idea. I love to camp. misstee – who is willing to help **Tripler** ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-proposal-camp-cecil-suggestions-wanted/220165/5 "2003-12-20T17:01:51Z")
You…you mean…outside? _gazes in horror through the windows_ ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-proposal-camp-cecil-suggestions-wanted/220165/6 "2003-12-20T17:09:01Z")
How often do you camp _inside_? ---
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-proposal-camp-cecil-suggestions-wanted/220165/7 "2003-12-20T17:29:25Z")
Nah, there is no outside. It’s just a myth that parents use to scare their children. “If you don’t stop whining we will go _camping_ next year!” ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-proposal-camp-cecil-suggestions-wanted/220165/8 "2003-12-20T17:32:29Z")
I can’t imagine this group without a dedicated connection and coffee IVs. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-proposal-camp-cecil-suggestions-wanted/220165/9 "2003-12-20T17:53:51Z")
Glacier: Grizzlies: check. Yellowstone: Grizzlies: check. How about somewhere in Colorado? The US Forest Service offers [cabins](http://www.fs.fed.us/r1/gallatin/index.php?page=recreation.cabins.gardiner.round_lake)and [lookouts](http://www.fs.fed.us/r1/gallatin/index.php?page=recreation.cabins.bozeman.garnet_mountain) In some states (I stayed at a few last year). I couldn’t do a rockies trip in 2004, but Northern Minnesota is a lovely place 😃 **Ginger** , they actually sell campfire \*espresso \* machines! ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-proposal-camp-cecil-suggestions-wanted/220165/10 "2003-12-20T17:58:55Z")
If it’s at Glacier (Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park), showers at my mom’s are within driving distance. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-proposal-camp-cecil-suggestions-wanted/220165/11 "2003-12-20T18:02:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tusculan \* > \*\*Nah, there is no outside. It’s just a myth that parents use to scare their children. \*\* That’s what I thought. _huddles in the comforting glow of his monitor, stroking the Ethernet cable and mumbling “My precious…”_ ---
**Author:** ![purrplebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-proposal-camp-cecil-suggestions-wanted/220165/12 "2003-12-20T18:25:38Z")
In a tent, sleeping on the cold, hard ground, and perhaps no way to get up off said ground in the morning? Not a _chance_. My bones being some 25 yrs older than the rest of me, that’s not happening. In a cabin out in the sticks, with hopefully indoor plumbing? Sure, count me in, if the timing works. Glacier is too far away, and therefore out of my budget entirely. Somewhere Conus is a lot more likely. What about Big Bend National Park? I can drive there in a matter of hours. 🙂 Seriously, count me as a definite maybe, depending on location, dates, etc. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-proposal-camp-cecil-suggestions-wanted/220165/13 "2003-12-20T18:31:34Z")
Wait. You mean _outside_? With bugs and wild animals and plants that can make my skin break out and stuff? No thank you. Robin ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-proposal-camp-cecil-suggestions-wanted/220165/14 "2003-12-20T18:41:09Z")
I have never in my life been camping. I told my husband this 20 years ago and he said he’d take me. Still hasn’t happened. I’m not at all interested in sleeping outside, being a month away from my 50th birthday, but I’d do cabin camping. However, considering I hope to be transferring on June 1, what with the move and all, there’s no way I could do anything this year. But it sounds like a lot of fun, and I know I’m strong enough to survive a few days sans internet. Seriously. Quick sniggering!!! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-proposal-camp-cecil-suggestions-wanted/220165/15 "2003-12-20T18:51:16Z")
: sniggers quickly : ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-proposal-camp-cecil-suggestions-wanted/220165/16 "2003-12-20T19:27:30Z")
That sounds _great_, **Trip**! As long as it’s, like, real close to me, I’m in. Moderately far, an I’ll have to run it by the Activities Director. Make sure she doesn’t have Plans. Look for plans for a very low-key (car) camping Fest with attached picnic (and book swap!) in the Adequate State of Ohio sometime this Spring. (The end of May? Early June?) Well, not you personally since you’re booked. Unless you’re back by then. And the plans gel this year. ---
**Author:** ![Yumanite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b487fb/32.png) [@Yumanite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumanite)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-proposal-camp-cecil-suggestions-wanted/220165/17 "2003-12-20T19:38:35Z")
Heck yeah! I’d actually go out of my way for that kind of Dopefest. I’d be OK with pretty much anywhere in the west, although I might actually be able to help with organization if it’s in one of the four corner states. I vote for somewhere with hot springs. ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-proposal-camp-cecil-suggestions-wanted/220165/18 "2003-12-20T21:08:24Z")
The **Bluesclan** loves camping, but the parks you mention are a bit far for us to get to. If you ever want to do some tropical beach camping, though, let us know! ---
**Author:** ![Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horrifying_Howler_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-proposal-camp-cecil-suggestions-wanted/220165/19 "2003-12-20T22:03:19Z")
I love camping, I think it’s a swell idea. We should go winter camping and we could go dog sledding, and make on of those snow shelters, and we could make hot chocolate. ---
**Author:** ![whistlepig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/73ab20/32.png) [@whistlepig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whistlepig)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-proposal-camp-cecil-suggestions-wanted/220165/20 "2003-12-20T22:10:16Z")
I’m in, particularly since I’m halfway between Glacier and Yellowstone. javascript:smilie(’:D’) There are some forsest service cabins available for rent, even in summer near Yellowstone and others in Montana. Whistlepig [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-proposal-camp-cecil-suggestions-wanted/220165.md?page=2)