Campground Games

I remember as a kid going camping with my parents to an area called Tacoma Creek. We spent the better part of our childhood playing in the Colville National forest, either by riding our motorcycles or hiking around. Like most kids you eventually get A.D.D. and start inventing campground games. Who hasn't been part of the ever popular "Snipe Hunt".

We have all probably played hide and seek, some version of baseball, cards or whatever game was unique to your family. It was a different time back then I guess when the games actually made sense to me. Recently I have discovered a brand new collection of campground games that I just don't completely comprehend. Hopefully my friends and fellow bloggers can provide me with alittle clarification to the below listed newly discovered "campground games".

*** Doggy Poop Bag Pitching

Trying to decide if this is an environmental version of lawn darts. Here is the basic game play that I have deduced so far.

1) Patiently wait until your dog takes a poop

2) Using a non bio-degradable bag, bag up the newly deposited poop

3) Look for the nearest dumpster

4) Walk in the other direction and find the most stickery bush

5) With at least (3) complete rotations of your arm in a circle, hurl the poop into the sticker bush

6) Make sure that it is securely hooked onto the sticker bush at least 5 feet into the stickers so that some poor campground host gets to tear up their arms retrieving it

7) Give yourself 5 points and walk away

***Piling Rocks on Picnic Tables

This I have decided is the Canadian version of Stonehenge, just on a personal level. For this you will need the following items: Minimum of 5 rocks of varying sizes, 1 public picnic table, and no feelings of responsibility for leaving the table unusable until it is cleared by someone else.

Object of game: Annoy campground hosts that have to clear every single table of the above mentioned rocks.

No degree in art is required, just the willingness to stack rocks in any random order on the table tops primarily. Fortunately we get the over achiever rock stackers who even cover the benches.

**Bread Bag Tab War

Kind of like 52 pick up with cards, only with the bread tabs off of every bag that might have one. (side note: Does anyone know if you can tell what might have been in the fore mentioned bag by the color of the tab, green- is hamburger buns, red-hot dog buns, etc)

Flicking these little jewels (that are almost impossible to pick up with the little grabbers provided by the lovely state of Washington) all over the campsite. Still wondering if there is suppose to be a pattern made or if it is a distance sport. Please advise if you know.

Anyway, I just figured that now that we are retired we just have not been in the loop regarding the new popular campground games. All of our kids are too old for us to have to invent such games for and they have yet to produce spawn that might someday invent games all on their own. If any of you have become aware of a new book or Internet site that might clarify these new games, please provide me with a link.

I would hate to think that this is just people littering. Not in our Washington State Park.