Query by ohhiloveeyouu: Where can 17 year olds go camping in michigan without adults?
My friend and I would like to go camping without having our mothers and fathers for a tiny get away. We are 17 and 16.
We want to stay in Michigan and don’t want to go pretty far away from the grand rapids region.
We are trying to keep on the cheaper side but with entertaining issues to do.
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Answer by buzzdogear777
Properly, you could appear for a local state park to camp in that has stuff to do around it.
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Question by Jill: What is the ideal way to hold a video camera charged on a camping trip?
I’m going camping for five days and I want to make a documentary about it for a school project. Having said that, getting in the middle of the woods, there is no electrical energy. My video camera only has about six hours of battery life. Really should I invest in much more batteries and have them all charged or is there some sort of odd solar factor I could charge it with? Or is it just not really worth the hassle?
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Answer by Angus
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7 Responses to “In which can 17 year olds go camping in michigan devoid of adults?”
GO TO GRAMPA’S AND GRAMMA’S
even in the parks you will need someone 18 or older to be with you, sorry, go to a wooded area, around a lake and take along your sleeping bag, maby the farmer wont catch yall..
Bring extra batteries, lithium lasts longest and get a portable solar charger.
http://www.rei.com/product/800146
Power monkey’s are good, if you charge the battery on that before you go, that can then charge you camera when it runs out! It also comes with a solar charger when the battery pack runs out!
If you have the money, bring one or two spare batteries. Nothing will be so reliable as a fully-charged battery. I like solar, but it’s going to mean extra size and weight, and you might not be able to charge if the area is wooded, or the weather is cloudy.
Six hours is a lot of video, by the way. When you edit it down, you probably want only the best 10 or 15 minutes, or people will get bored.
I always carry an extra battery, fully-charged, for my Nikon still camera. I also carry an extra set of batteries for headlamp and GPS. Good solar chargers are quite expensive. You are going to need the right adapter for the kind of battery that you use and did not discuss the kind of battery you will be charging. If you are car-camping, there are inverters that draw electricity from your generator for re-charging.
Roderick is really onto something for you.
Your final product when edited should be 10 MAYBE 20 minutes max. No-one enjoys watching hours of pointless unedited random clips.
You want “tails” on both ends of your clips, a few (2-3) seconds ahead of the “action”, and the same after the “action”….Makes editing a little easier.
Keep clips 8-10 seconds…up to 20 seconds for rapid, interesting, action. You can go longer if you intend to edit a clip to fast motion. As an example, taking a 5 minute clip of an interesting section of trail, with the intention of speeding it up to 15 seconds in editing (time lapse effect).
Sooooo…After considering all of this, it never hurts to have a spare battery (use a marker and record the date you purchased it right on the battery itself). I generally record between 1 and 1.5 hours of video to build a 15 minute presentation on a hike/canoe trip. Some footage may be used in other presentations.
Two batteries (and enough memory for a couple hours at highest res) should be plenty and provide insurance against accidentally discharging the battery. Also, avoid the biggest drain of all…reviewing clips. Everyone wants to see the clips you just shot…make them wait until after it is edited.
Camcorder batteries are fairly high power units, a solar charger with enough output to charge one would likely be pretty spendy. If you are careful, your one battery is plenty, two is insurance.