First time camper? Here are some tips from Gizmodo's Indefinitely Wild blog

We could write pages and pages of useful stuff about how to camp or which tent to buy. But the lazy way to go (always our favorite) is to point you to a blog researched and written by real camping pros. There's a lot of hard-core wilderness info not really relevant to sleeping in a tent in a newly mown hay field in August (mountaineering? sub-zero sleeping bags? seriously?). Take what you need, and leave the rest. First-timer camping tips from Indefinitely Wild