Camping And Hiking Gear

Why is it so hard to find available campsites on reserveamerica.com?

I want to go camping this summer and it seems I have to make the reservations through Reserve America, either online or over the phone. Everything is just about booked up, but I know these campgrounds cannot be that full. Also, it appears that not all the sites are listed. Any ideas? Do I have to go through Reserve America?

camping/cabin rental in the north east (ca/pa/ny)???

me and my friends are planning to leave on the 22nd of aug and come back on the 24th. we are looking for some place to rent a cabin...hopefully a secluded are right near the wilderness..we live in new york city so we want to get away from the city rush and just hang out somewhere quiet. we would like to go somewhere within a 6-7 hour driving range. we usually go to jim thorpe campgrounds in pa but getting tired of that. we like to go hiking too. we checked out a couple of places on reserve america but they were already reserved for the dates we plan to go.so if any of you know some good places to rent a cabin, hike, bbq, drink beer and just have a good time please let me know. thanks a lot.

Would this actually work for camping in the snow?

I have a camping/hunting catalog from 1907. I assume it is a nostalgia/reprint. In the catalog they sell these HALF tents called "Masgouche" tents. The tent has a back, and half of a roof, and it sort of has sides. It is depicted in an illustration. In the illustration, the tent is set up in the snow. In front of the tent is a MASSIVE fire consisting of two logs about as big as one man could move in front of the tent. They are held in place by two long metal strips which have been driven into the ground. You see two more massive logs in reserve, I guess for the middle of the night, when the first two logs burn down. Would this actually work? Given that you are in a place that you could chop trees down and burn them at will ( can't do that in California) could you sleep in the snow warmly with this sort of "reflector" tent if you had two six foot long logs that were about a foot and a half in diameter burning in front of you? It depicts the person using the tent as having what looks like a rubberized ground cloth (I guess to avoid melting snow) and one blanket, and he is sleeping in total comfort in what looks like Canada or North America with a foot of snow on the ground.

why is America building detention camps across the U.S?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtt1AIiXUjw recient story

The Govt. is throwing up detention camps all over the United States. Many say it is because they are scared of an uprising.

Not sure if it is because trillions of disappearing out of the National Reserve.

Or Obama's plan to begin mandatory Servitude for those 18-25

Or they are going to abolish the 2nd amendment

Or in case of a financial crash. (may not happening now because wall street got their money, they were threatening to crash us if they didn't get it)