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• A Sleeping Pad Stack for Winter Camping

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 125
  I recently discovered the combination of using an inflatable pad on the bottom and a closed cell pad on top for winter camping.  It seems a bit counter-intuitive to use the inflatable on the bottom but it ends up acting like a balloon and floating the closed cell pad off of the cold snow. Inflatable pads provide ...
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• Leonids Meteor Shower November 17/18

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 125
  The Leonids meteor shower will be the night of November 17/18, especially visible  during the morning. North American observers should especially try to view the morning of Tuesday, November 17 in case of unusual activity leading up to this peak. The moon will be completely out of the picture and will not cause any ...
  2 days ago

• Chimney Mountain/Puffer Pond

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 125
  Chimney Mountain (lat 43.6878157, lon -74.2304438 ) sits in the southern part of the central Adirondack Mountains just southeast of the town of Indian Lake near the intersection of NY28 and NY30. Chimney Mountain truly is a “geologic oddity” favored by rock climbers and spelunkers.  A fault line ...
  4 days ago

• What is a 4 Season Tent?

  
  sectionhiker.com — Authority: 125
  Mountain Hardware Stronghold 10 Person Base Camp Tent One of our regular section hiker readers recently asked "What is the difference between a 4 season tent and a 3 season tent?" Its a good question because the distinction is blurry. Moreover the phrase "4 season tent" is a misnomer since it refers to winter ...
  4 days ago

• NYS DEC Offerring A Becoming an Outdoorswoman Workshop

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 125
  Winter Workshop Gives Women the Chance to Learn Outdoor Skills Such As Ice Fishing, Snowshoeing, Cross Country Skiing, and Winter Camping New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Pete Grannis today announced the second annual winter “Becoming an Outdoorswoman” workshop will ...
  4 days ago

• Outside Survival Quiz

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 125
  Outside Magazine published their Outside Survival Quiz .  It asks 14 general purp ose survival questions covering being lost, water crossings, 1st aid situations, poisonous plants, search and rescue, etc. I am not sure the subway or car repair situations belong in an Outdoor Survival, but these quizzes are ...
  5 days ago

• Journey Into Winter

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 125
  Beep over at Hammock Forums had a great post on gear assessment as he was getting started winter camping.  I contacted him to allow the post to be duplicated here.  You can read the original post and commentary here . Beep’s post goes thus: “I want to set the record straight from the start. Though I live in ...
  5 days ago

• Compass Skills

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 125
  The main functions of using a compass are: - to tell which direction you are traveling – your heading - to tell which direction an object is from you – its bearing - to keep you following a straight line of travel - to help orient a map and align it with the actual land - to perform triangulation and determine ...
  6 days ago

• Winter Camping, Hiking, and Backpacking Resources

  
  sectionhiker.com — Authority: 125
  Winter camping, hiking, backpacking and mountaineering are not without peril. If you have never done them, its best to receive some training from your local outdoor club or a professional guiding service before you try it yourself. I just started last year myself after a three day Intro to Mountaineering Class with a ...
  6 days ago

• Building An Igloo With Wet Snow

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 125
  Snow shelters such as igloos, snow caves and quinzees other an alternative to tents for winter campers.  Snow shelters are quieter and offer the benefit of warmth, as body heat causes temperatures to rise in the cozy interior. In the article “ How to build an igloo with West Coast style ” Jackie Christie reports ...
  1 week ago

• REI Offers a Free Free Winter and Snow Camping Class

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 125
  Wednesday, Nov 11 7:00p at REI Arcadi a, Arcadia, CA The Winter Camping Season is here! If you are planning on heading out in cold or snowy conditions, there are  things you need to know before you head out on a winter excursion.  An REI Expert will share  must-have gear for extra comfort and tips that will make ...
  1 week ago

• Winter Camping Poo: Pack it out

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 125
  What to do with your Winter Camping poo?  Burying it in the snow isn’t acceptable.  The best solution is to pack it out.  There are a couple of options: A Wag Bag or colored ziploc bags. The Wag Bag is now called the Go Anywhere Toilet Kit.  It is designed to be used on its own to pack-out human waste. Wag Bags ...
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• Snowshoe Magazine’s Snowshoeing 101

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 125
  Snowshoe Magazine is located in Denver, Colorado and promotes the growth of the sport of snowshoeing by bringing snowshoeing to a mainstream audience, plucking people from their couches and placing them in snowshoes, and providing a reliable resource. They provide PDFs of how-to articles and trail ...
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• Staying hydrated while winter camping

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 125
  Snowshoeing is strenuous exercise and one will likely sweat despite the low temperatures-especially if carrying a heavy winter backpack. Heavy exertion in cold, dry air uses up to 2-4 quarts/liters of water per day. Pack plenty of water and stay hydrated by drinking often.  If you wait till you are thirsty you are ...
  1 week ago

• Tipi Camping

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 125
  Hot or cold tenting?  Each style of winter camping has it’s proponents. Hot tenting usually involves packing a wood stove along with a more substantial tent – since one is spending time in the heated tent and it is not just a sleeping berth.  Hot tenting may entail bringing your gear on a sled, toboggan or ...
  2 weeks ago

• Winter, and the sledding is easy

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 125
  Sometimes it is nice to know in advance that the trail will be level, smooth and possibly re-packed by skiers.  That’s the time to load up your sled and make the trip in a little easier. No one had XC skied on the trail recently, but there was a firm base underneath somewhere. An easy trip in….
  2 weeks ago

• Waking up in the Tipi

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 125
  We took our Kifari Tipi on our Ely, MN dog sledding winter camping trip.  While some people slept in here and others just spread their sleeping bags out here….. the rest of us slept inside the Tipi with the stove causing us to ponder – why would they do that?
  2 weeks ago

• Avoiding Heat Loss

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 125
  Our bodies lose heat in five ways.
  2 weeks ago

• SkiPulk’s Snow Clipper

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 125
  We have mixed experiences using sleds to transport winter camping gear.  In the right circumstances a sled offers advantages over backpacking.  It easy way to move a lot of gear – up to 18,000 cubic inches and 200+ lbs – more than one can comfortably stash in a backpack. So if you are setting up a base camp, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tubbs Flex Snowshoes

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 125
  Tubbs introduced their new Flex Series snowshoes . This series is a complete departure from their traditional aluminum frame snowshoes – they are made of injection molded plastic that is thin enough and strong enough to give the snowshoes a distinct flex to roll naturally from heel to toe. These snowshoes are ...
  2 weeks ago

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