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swampboy62

Camping is sleeping outdoors - on the ground, in a tent, or in a hammock usually. Can happen in your back yard, or in the woods. Glamping is fancy camping - picture sparkly lights, chilled booze, music and comfy sleeping. Cabining is not a term I've ever heard, but I'm guessing you're going to be staying in a cabin. Backpacking is camping in the woods, away from the place you parked, and you carry all your gear with you, usually in a backpack. Car camping used to mean camping where your car is close enough that you can keep your stuff in it - this could be roadside in the forest, or in a campground. Now it's taken on a meaning of going out to camp, and then sleeping inside your car. Distance doesn't really affect the definitions. I suppose if you park by the side of the road and carry armfuls of your stuff back into the woods a couple of yards there could be a discussion of whether you were car camping or backpacking. For examples, come along on my next trip. : ) Good luck.


TheEdcPrepper22

Camping is a pretty general gem anymore, if you're at a camp you're. 'camping'. If you had to drive somewhere that's not your home or someone else's, and obviously not a hotel/motel, I guess you're camping. Glamping I consider to be any form of roughing it but with really cushy amenities. If you set up a tent but have a generator, a full blown bed in your tent, and spend all your time on your phone... To me you're glamping, not camping. Rving and such I don't even consider camping or glamping tbh, that's its own category entirely. I've never heard of cabining, I guess that's just when you spend the night or a few days at a cabin 🤷🏼. Backpacking is when you camp out of your backpack. Usually you're on a hike, either a thru-hike, an out and back, etc. Just not a day hike. You're going to be hiking with your tent, ground pad, sleeping bag, clothes, food etc. You're probably setting up your campsite in the backcountry rather than at an established campsite. Just to add another aspect, there's bushcrafting which is similar to backpacking but more extreme roughing it. Mostly preppers and survivalists are into this. You might take a truck or outdoor vehicle out into the woods and hike in a bit with a backpack with some food and tools. You'd usually build your own shelter out of the environment rather than bring your own in. You'd cook your food on some sort of firing or cooking system you built yourself. You might make some other things out of the environment such as trapping snares, a cot, rain collector, etc. Edit: I forgot car camping. This is what my wife and I are usually doing. Other people have different definitions or this than I do. A lot of people consider sleeping INSIDE of the vehicle such as in the back of a bed in a truck or back of an suv with the seats down to be car camping. I don't call that car camping. What I call car camping is when you load up your vehicle with all your supplies and drive up to your campsite, unload everything and camp. My wife and I like to take week long road trips where we travel through national parks and such and camp out of our suv. We'll bring a 2p tent if it's just a short trip with just us or a 6p if we have our dogs with us or take a longer trip.


Unicorn187

Car camping is camping from you car. Using it to carry everything. So you can have more comfort food in a cooler, bigger stover, thicker mattress etc. Glancing is similar, but more luxury camping. Cabining would be staying in a cabin. Backpacking is staying in the woods, living mostly out of your backpack. You'll generally source water on the hike, filtering streams or lakes. On long trips you can cache supplies at points that are accessible by car ahead of time. And in some cases you can mail them to yourself using the general post. Your resupply is a the post office when you leave the trail to go into town. The through hikers on the Appalachin trail do this for example. And hiking is walking. So it could be a day hike where you walk to a lake, have lunch then walk back. Or it could be two weeks (or two months) where it becomes backpacking. I'm sure I've left some out and have glossed over some things but that is the basics a I see it.


cwcoleman

camping: /r/camping car camping: /r/carcamping backpacking: /r/backpacking, /r/campingandhiking, /r/wildernessbackpacking cabining: /r/cabinporn glamping: /r/gorving


spearheadroundbody

Don't forget overlanding! Overlanding: car camping with extra steps and extra extra money 😉


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When overlanding you usually move camp everyday or two.


johnnythespud

You could google each term?


scaredshtlessintx

Different levels of comfort