How was your first campout from book one? I truly hope it was a pleasant, rewarding experience. After you've been camping a few more times and gain more experience, you're ready to spread your wings. Take your lessons learned and put them to good use.

In this edition of Campground Hound, we'll be going over several types of camping. From expensive camping to camping for free. Including information on different types of camping and details of minimalist camping. Whether it's living out of a backpack, minimizing your car camping gear list, or heading into the backcountry for bushcraft.

Minimalist camping helps you move from campground to campground with ease and with less gear to weigh you down. You'll be incorporating multi-use equipment that accomplishes more than one task to eliminate carrying extra gear. And the more lightweight, the better.

Training in wilderness first aid will bring your first aid skills to the next level. Learn the process of assessing an accident scene and the injured to render care. With some more detailed treatment of cuts, scraps, and gouges, whether they're minor or deep and bloody. Prevention and treatment of frostbite and hypothermia, which can happen any time of year. And if evacuation of the injured is necessary to seek medical attention.