It used to be called "roughing it" or "getting back to nature." Contemporary seekers speak of "environmental awareness" or "the whole-earth experience." By whatever name, the grail of the great outdoors lures more and more thousands of Americans each year to an increasingly jampacked yonder where too often the awareness is of crowded humanity and the call of the wild has become the bawl of a transistor radio.
Station wagons and six-wheel camping behemoths descended last week like panzer divisions on state and national parks and forests; private campsites, with such names as...
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