My dad started taking me hiking plus camping when I was outdated enough to carry a heavy backpack.
I loved it back in those mornings because both of us lived in a state with few dangerous predators, since both of us lacked bears, wolves, plus mountain lions in our certain area of the country.
The worst things both of us had to fear in the woods were lyme disease carrying ticks plus poison ivy. But don’t get me wrong either, because those are both extreme problems in their own right. Some people are harshly allergic to poison ivy plus others are susceptible to fatal cases of lyme disease if they catch it from a tick bite. On the other hand, I’d rather take my chance with ticks plus poison ivy after living down south for a few years where there aren’t just black bears, but also alligators plus even crocodiles in some remote places further inland. I quit camping when I lived down there because the woods were either right on swamp lands or near swamp lands. Then there were the venomous spiders plus rattlesnakes as well. Thankfully I’m back up north again plus camping all of the time. I even recently bought this special portable air conditioner that is designed to take in camping tents or to use inside a vehicle to supplement or replace an ailing air conditioner. The portable air conditioner has many hoses so it recycles outdoor air to cool its compressor, making it much more energy efficient than the single hose portable air conditioners. The fact that I can use it in both my tent plus my truck made it a extreme win in my mind.