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Bush camping scene with four men from the Phillips Glass Plate Negative Collection, Powerhouse Museum.

“First Sunday in camp, Lady Evelyn River"  A camp site in a forest, with a tent, a man standing and another preparing a meal. Hats and boots are drying on the stumps of saplings that had been cut to support the tent. One of a set of photographs from a trip to "Gow Ganda”, MayContinue Reading

Hunters outside tent in the bush

Victoria Rifles officer in front of tent, ca 1915 Notman Photographic Archives – McCord Museum

My tent in Dutch Creek of Glacier National Park during ten straight days of torrential downpour that literally left streams flowing all around our “spike” camp.  My spot under this massive evergreen (which I spent about 45 minutes in selecting) stayed dry throughout the entire hitch.