Roughing it for urban gadget fiends
By KATE COHEN | July 25, 2006
For city dwellers accustomed to living with iPods, cell phones, and steady wi-fi (not to mention indoor plumbing), a weekend spent camping — or even more extreme, hiking and camping — can send well-adapted urbanites into temporary panic as they recall well-buried memories of a family outing gone terribly wrong when a certain someone mistook an anthill for a sandbox.
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