[TedDoesntTalk]

If you have not camped overnight yet, do that first a bunch of times ... without the hiking and backpacking. Some people call it car camping because you are not far from your car.

This will teach you what you need and what you’ve forgotten to bring without much risk.

You will also learn what kind of meals you want to prepare and carry, which is really important.

[grogenaut]

Along with car camping is walk in camping where you have to go a few hundred yards from the car. Enough to make it inconvient to haul a keg or large cooler. Can get some nice spots that way. And you can practice w the backpack and have backup of the car if needed