A foil packet of potatoes, salt pork, and carrots, buried in the morning campfire coals, will result in a perfectly-cooked meal by the time you re- turn from a four-mile hike. Homesickness can have physical symptoms that are shockingly similar to a real sickness. The s’more, classic campfire treat, can trace its origins as far back as the 1920s. Black bears can run at speeds of up to 35 miles per hour. When attending a co-ed dance, even if well-populated, it’s possible to feel very alone. After a few hours, a campfire can reach tem- peratures of 900 degrees Fahrenheit or more. Dancing is more difficult than the people on TV make it look. The canoe was derived from the word “kenu,” which means dugout. The first human campfires occurred nearly two million years ago. When you sit alone for a very long time at a dance at which you don’t even want to be, you’re happy to talk to anyone who approaches. Even if it’s a girl. Teen dances in the 1950s were sometimes called “sock hops” because dancers were required to re- move their shoes to protect the varnished floors of the gymnasium. A complete stranger can feel sadness about a duck she never even knew. Camp songs can come from many different sources: folk songs, spirituals, novelty songs, rounds, action songs, and more. Slow dancing is different than other kinds of dancing. To prevent foot blisters while hiking, rub a bar of soap on the inside of your sock, especially at the heels and toes. Things besides physical exertion can make you feel sweaty. The needle of a compass determines its direc- tion by aligning itself with the magnetic North of the entire planet. Portable stoves are handy and reliable for cook- ing during wet weather, when firewood is at a minimum, or when you’re just too tired to build and maintain a campfire. Despite the fact that your mouth should be fully-acclimated to the taste of mouth, other people’s mouths do not taste like your mouth. A “shooting star” is actually a chunk of rock, or meteor, that burns up while entering the Earth’s atmosphere. You can like one person enough to make it sad to leave a place you don’t even like at all. There are over 115 species of pine trees in the world, 35 in the United States alone.