A Love for The Outdoors
I have always enjoyed going camping. My parents often took me camping in the beautiful state of Michigan as I was growing up. I remember learning to tie my shoe in our family tent. In fact, the same green tent you see at Land Ops base camps is our old family tent from Michigan purchased over 45 years ago.
Basic Necessities
Over the years I have often wanted to take friends camping with us. Although they liked the idea of camping in the middle of nowhere, they would often want to venture only as far as the local campgrounds. This is because toilets and showers were always close at hand. The problem is, when you want to truely go out and adventure, the basic necessities are nowhere to be found. It was not uncommon for friends to beg off because, although they like the idea of adventuring, they really had a hard time going where there would be no real bed, shower or toilet.
Resorts Introduce Glamping
Glamping which stands for glamorous camping was started by resorts that provide an outdoor experience, but with the basic necessities and hotel hospitality close at hand. Glampers still sleep under a canvas tent, but instead of sleeping on the ground in a sleeping bag they actually sleep in a bed. Glamping resorts can offer some very unique glamour services such as spa massages, wine tasting, five star meals and more. This is because the glamping sites are generally permanent tent structures somewhere on their resort property. Some glamping units even have electricity.
Adventure Glamping with Land Ops
We've taken the glamping idea and applied it to mobile adventuring and exploring. The Land Ops base camp is typically setup out in the middle of nowhere. This has always hindered our friends from attending who were less inclined to go because of the "roughest" part of roughing it, no facilities. Sleeping on the ground didn't appeal to them either. So we've smoothed out the roughest part and we've spiced up the fun part too. We don't just go camping, we have a unique playbook of off road geocaching exercises, puzzles and games. Land Ops is a like a rolling science fair of navigation, radio and computer technology.
Glamping with Land Ops is NOT meant to bring a hotel resort into the middle of the desert or mountain range where we conduct our events, but it's the best hospitality you will ever get in the middle of nowhere. In our Glamping Suite, adventurers will stay in a large tent that is tall enough to stand up in, sleep in a bed with real pillows and bedding (not in sleeping bags), shower in a private tent, and use their own private flush toilet. Breakfast is served daily.
Don't worry, we still make you do a few rough things like cook your own hobo pies and roast marshmellows over the campfire.
Land Ops combines geocaching, off road adventuring, exploring, glamping and adventure documentaries all in one weekend event. Membership is FREE. Some events are FREE and some require PAID admission. There also two types of glamping packages. See more details on our Land Ops glamping page.
Now our friends join us as we explore the hidden trails and treasures of our land.
As I like saying, be sure to make it nothing less, than absolutely, an adventure of a lifetime.
Chris Doering
Land Ops
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Many will be equipped with the GoPro HD Hero as pictured here. This is a wide angle HD cam for action segments. 
