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...moments too late to prevent a vicious murder. Off to the side of the road, clutching his bloody head, stood Charles Boothroyd, 55, a Hartford, Conn., machinist. Near by, fatally wounded, lay Mrs. Jeanette Sullivan, 40. In a ditch was a crumpled tan Volkswagen with sleeping bags and a tent lashed to its top, its interior littered with toilet paper, pillows and sun caps. Missing was Mrs. Sullivan's 14-year-old daughter Denise. Boothroyd and the Sullivans had been sightseeing at Dead Horse Point, a towering promontory that commands a magnificent view of the Colorado River canyon...
...stove, grub box, cots, air mattresses, an air pump for the mattresses (one model gets its puffs from the automobile exhaust pipe), charcoal grill, folding toilet ($11.95) and canvas bathtub ($17.50). If the car battery is in good shape, the camper can also load up a small refrigerator, tent heater, fluorescent lamp, electric smoker for chicken, and coffee maker-all of which can be wired like an umbilical cord into the dashboard cigar lighter, a versatile instrument that can do almost anything but whistle Tenting Tonight...
Loading Up. If he is wise, the camper with a new tent will set it up first in his own backyard, cook a little something on his stove, light his lantern and pump up his air mattress. "Everyone should do his staff work before he starts out," says Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Lemuel Garrison. "Too many people think they have inherited Daniel Boone's knowledge as well as his spirit. They haven...
...despite all the warnings, there are still a few hundred unfortunate run-ins each year with the bears that roam the parks. Animal lovers simply do not believe that it is dangerous to feed the bears, often forget that leaving food or candy in a tent is an outright invitation to any beast within sniffing distance. Trouble is, they look so cute, and they seem to be smiling a happy welcome to visitors-but too few campers realize that a bear hardly ever smiles: he just looks that way all the time, even when he is rummaging through a garbage...
...absurd concessions to civilized living-the one overwhelming fact about it is that the great mountains and forests of the U.S. are such indestructible marvels, and so mysteriously instructive to man's nature, that even the most unabashed dude and his togetherness-mad neighbor in the sprawl of Tent City return from a camping trip stronger for their experience...