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Ah, the great outdoors – you get fresh air, peace and quiet and solitude. It’s a great place to unplug and relax. While camping is a great way to enjoy the outdoors it can also be idyllic for making out. We don’t recommend finding a make out partner while camping (unless it’s at a campground). There are a few ground rules to follow.

1) Make a Campfire

A nighttime campfire is romantic. If there’s not a drought warning (listen to Smokey – forrest fires are unromantic) make a contained campfire to snuggle up next to your make out partner. Bonus points if you make s’mores; negative points if you tell ghost stories.*

2) Check Your Sleeping Bag

You don’t need any new friends from nature joining you on your make out. Check your bag before slipping in with your partner to make sure no bugs or other critters have decided to join you.

3) Secure Your Tent

Again, you don’t need new friends, i.e. critters, joining you. Make sure the tent is secure. You also want to make sure the tent is soundly put up – a fallen tent is a total boxdryer.

4) Keep it Down

Just because you’re out in the woods doesn’t mean you should make a ton of noise. You don’t want to attract animals, park rangers, fellow campers or serial killers.

* We love ghost stories, but they totally take us out of the mood while camping. All we can think about then is how the amorous couple is always getting killed off in horror movies.

It’s summertime (shut-up Summer Solstice) and for many that means camping/hiking or doing something of the sort outdoors. Hipsters are not immune to the call of the wild/outdoor music festival and will also make the weekend (or weekday if they’re unemployed) trek out to go camping or hiking. Instead of stocking up at REI or “roughing” it like other people do, hipsters put their own little spin on the camping.

1) Outdoor Music Festivals

When Bonarro or the Reading Music Festival roll around you will most likely find a sea of hipsters “camping.” Why rent a hotel room when you can keep the party going all night long?* While hipsters will bring sleeping bags (and occasionally tents) with them to sleep in, the emphasis isn’t on sleeping outside, but on continuing the party, thus they bring copious amounts of alcohol and drugs.

2) Call of the Wild

These hipsters are truly roughing it. They may have recently read On the Road or Into the Wild and they want to test their mettle in the great outdoors. They think camping will help them creatively and that they will “find” themselves. Alas, these hipsters are the least able to handle camping and end up clawing their way back to civilization half-starved and melancholy. But when they get back into a city they’ll totally tell a different story of “finding” themselves.

3) Parents Cabin

Most hipsters are in truth trustafarians and thus live off of their parents teet. Many of the rich thus have weird chi-chi hunting lodges or summer homes. While this technically isn’t roughing it or even really camping a trustafarian hipster will tell you it is. Usually this sort of hipster will then go on a diatribe about how they hate their parents and then wreck the house.

* We actually 100% approve of this.