Top 10 Benefits to a Good Camping Trip by Stray Together

Who doesn’t love a good camping trip? If its a spring or summer night you get to feel the warm air stream in through your window on your sojourn out. If it’s the winter time the cool crisp air, of the November or December evening night guides you on trail walks and helps you keep your wits about you. And in any season, you have the companion that is the mountains, the rivers, the valleys, the verdure of the forests, and essence of these wild places that we love, and can never visit often enough. So whether you like to camp alone or with friends or during spring and summer or winter and fall, here are some of our favorite reasons, for you and anyone you know and love, to head outside, pack a sleeping bag, and appreciate more of the outoors.

1. DEEP BREATHS:

Outdoor air is 2.5 times cleaner than indoor air. Higher air quality = higher levels of oxygen for your brain and that means higher generation of the neurostransmitter and the favorite feel good drug, serotonin.

2. SUNSHINE:

Outdoors you get bright natural light. Natural light increases both serotonin AND melatonin levels. Which means, better sleep, and a better regulated sleep wake cycle. So sleep that makes sense to your body’s natural circadian rythms. Giving you a more well rested body and so a healthier body.

3. Natural Sunlight

Artificial light sources disrupt our natural sleep/wake cycles. Time away from our daily distractions out and under the sun allows for our bodies to escape the distractions of our lives while absorbing more vitamin D. Vitamin D is involved in generating neurotransmitters that help create feelings of well-being, it is also a vitamin associated with building healthier bones. Natural sunlight helps everyone feel better.

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4. YOU GET TO BE ACTIVE:

hike, walk, run, fish, kayak, have fun while you’re out there and your body will thank you. Exercise will also increase serotonin levels 🤸‍♂️👍

5. SLEEP:

A good camping trip can mean being able to catch up on good restful sleep. The time away from city, and suburban lighting, also means a view of our natural world that we all need to appreciate more often. It could also mean trying your hand at astrophotgraphy. Taking pictures of the night sky, before enjoying, sweet rejuvinating sleep.

Time outside exposese children to safe levels of diverse bacteria and strengthens their immune systems

Photo by Imani

6. SOCIALIZATION:

Getting together with friends is a really good reason to go on a camping trip. you’ll be able to spend quality time, planning the trip, traveling to your destination, putting camp together, and deciding how you would like to spend your time in the outdoors. If you have any questions, make sure to check with local governing bodies, to ensure your spending your time in a way that is both safe and fun for everyone.

7. TIME AWAY:

A good camping trip is time away from our busy lives. It’s a good time to get caught up on reading. Turn off your phone and enjoy the experience. Respectfully take photos, bring your journal, bring your sketchpad, enjoy your time out, and appreciate your time away from daily life to be able to return to it with ways to reflect on your camping trip.

8. NEW CHALLANGES:

Camping gets you out there. It gets you outside in new environments sometimes with new people and with them you may have to troubleshoot problems, learn how to cook food outdoors, how to get a fire started, to steep coffee, pitch a tent and piece together a living space and how to safely interact with the outdoors while coexesting with wildlife.

You’ll realize the value of time spent outside, being a human, hopefully with other humans. (And once you get the hang of it, that’ll help produce serotonin for a lifetime).

9. Travel

Have a camping spot you’ve been itching to get your tent out to? Camping can offer a diverse experience all around the world or from your own backyard. Just make sure to do your research to make sure you have a fun and safe camping and travel experience.
Photo by Victor Larracuente

10. It’s An Experience

Camping is an experience. We get to reconnect with something ancient in ourselves while connecting with friends and family. We get to experience the natural world and interact with it, seeing forms that the earth has carved through millions of years. You can take photos of it, make art from it, be better informed to engage with your life through your experience away from it. Time away remotely means more deeply connecting with the present moment, as we’re not looking for the nearest reason to escape the present moment.

If you get to, anytime soon, plan a trip, and make sure to tag us

@stray_together 🌲🌊⛰🍂

Osman MansarayJanuary 27, 2021Comment