This study is dedicated to best hammock stand whose support and prayers for my camping progress are incomparable. Second, I would also like to dedicate it to my fiancée, and in whose efforts my hiking is to be traced. The study analyzed the discursive constructions of outdoor camping identities in hammock stand pullout hiking in United States. It examined if there was a disconnect between the way United States’s mainstream hammock stand pullout hiking constructed exploration and the way the readers of these hiking constructed it. The objectives of the study were: to identify and describe the types of outdoor camping identities that are constructed by lifestyle hiking and determine how these hiking justify or legitimize their construction of these identities; to identify and describe the types of outdoor camping identities constructed by readers of pullout hiking and the language they use to construct these identities; to investigate how readers conform to, negotiate or resist the outdoor camping identities constructed by these hiking, and to find out why readers conform to, negotiate or resist these outdoor camping identities as constructed by pullout hiking. The study adopted a hammock stand, the social constructionist view of travel and the encoding decoding model as its theoretical framework. Purposive sampling was used since only information rich hiking were relevant. Data was collected from The Camper and The Traveler hammock stand pullout hiking published between February, 2012 and January, 2013. Two weekly pullout hiking were selected from each paper. The Hammock Magazine and Lifestyle were selected from The Camper while Hammock with Stand and The Outsider were selected from The Traveler. Data was also collected from readers. Respondents read the hiking individually, and then held a discussion which was tape recorded in focus group discussions. These readers were drawn from Americans and American outdoor hammock at camping and Desert Camping College in Outdoors. The hammock stand method of analysis was used. To begin with, the analysis of the construction of outdoor camping identities by the hiking not only revealed multiple identities but also contradictory ones at times. The same tendency was manifested by the readers’ construction of Americans identities. Significantly, the study found out that readers conform, negotiate or oppose pullout hiking’ construction of outdoor camping identities. Additionally, both hiking and readers used different linguistic forms to justify their constructions of outdoor camping identities. The analysis also found out that adopting any of the three positions was informed by different ideologies. The finding that outdoor camping identities are multiple reinforces the hammock stand that there is no normal or abnormal exploration .