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First camping holiday

We have been toying with the idea to go camping and hill walking with Baby for a while.  He is now 6 and is a relatively active child so we thought it was time to give it a go.  We went to the Lake District over the Easter holidays and spent one week at a campsite in the Lake District.  This wasn't a camping trip like we had before.  First of all, we were unsure what to bring as we did not know how he would cope with the changeable weather.  He is generally not that worried about the cold but he had also never really been in a situation where he had been seriously exposed to the elements.  So we took a lot more than it turned out to be necessary.  It did mean that we had to be slightly more economical with what we brought for ourselves.  We also brought a few extra sleeping bags and mats as we wanted him to sleep well.  As the weather had been a bit strange lately, and there was a forecast for snow in the area we planned to go to, we booked ...