Ten Years of Go Camping! Calendars - No Ken it’s actually twelve - Yikes....

The whole Go Camping! calendar/planner started out as a pretty simple idea. In my “How to Design Build and Outfit You Own Camp Kitchen” book, I have a section that encourages people to set down and look at a calendar and actually plan out those camping trips they have always wanted to, but never quite seem to, get around to doing. In this way one could take what basically had always been just a dream and move it a little closer to actually happening by ‘scheduling’ it on a planner. By the way, it’s my experience that the first step in getting from thought to reality is writing it down.


Then I thought what if I were to do a calendar featuring some of the images I have taken. Perhaps that would motivate and inspire others to do the same. Lead by example, so to speak. So that’s what I did and, by the way, that was two hard drive crashes ago. Combine that with the imperfections of that memory drive inside my head ( which is anything but hard and has crashed many times ) and what I end up with is sometimes confusion and inaccuracy.


The first calendar was actually in 2009! While the original version died in one of my crashes, I found a download PDF on my website. I didn’t realize it but I still have the PDF for it on my website along with every one since then. Somehow in 2014 I mislabeled that as the fourth year when in reality it was the sixth. Thus every subsequent year I would just up the number by one in the text when editing. This goes to show us that when you build on a mistake it’s always going to be wrong! Here are links to all of them jut in case your curious:

2009 - Our first one featured wildlife photos.

2010 - Second one featured wildlife too but there were a few links in it to some videos where the stills came from.

2011 - More wildlife but I actually show you the actual clips of video that generated the calendar images.

2012 - Arizona Scenery  - the November image is my all time favorite, West Clear Creek in the fall.

2013 - I must have been real busy in this year as all you get here is blatant advertising of my various products.

2014 - Back to really nice scenery except for April where I featured a meal we were cooking. Looks good though. ;-)

2015 - Scenery and wildlife in this one with an explanation video as well.

2016 - Dido

2017 - Scenery and wildlife and you get a video of some of my 2016 camping trips. Everything from hunts to festivals and such.

2018 - This was the camping vacation special featuring our eclipse trip. Got to see this one if you haven’t already.

2019 - Sort of a ‘best of’ collection of past campouts.

Be sure to have a look at any linked videos you come across as that will be interesting viewing too.

For me looking at all these images really drives home the significance of scheduling your trips, writing down what happens on those trips and taking pictures and videos. When all is said and done, every year you add to that magnificent data base of camping memories. I watched my grand kids go from babies to hunting buddies over the last twelve years shown here.

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Download it, use it and get started making some great camping memories. You’ll be glad you did.

Go Camping! - Ken