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• Wool Clothing

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 102
  Wool has long been the traditional favorite of outdoorsmen – it’s warm when wet and durable for its weight. Wool is a natural fiber composed primarily of keratin, a protein found also in hair, fingernails and animal hooves. Sheep serve as the primary source of wool for clothing.  Wool has several qualities that ...
  1 day ago

• Building a fire in the winter

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 107
  Build a winter campfire using these components: The Platform. Step 1 is paying attention to base the fire is going to sit on.  Whether you are trying to promote Leave No Trace techniques and establishing a protection layer between the fire and the ground or shielding the fire from dampness or trying to keep it up ...
  2 days ago

• First Timer’s Guide to Snowshoeing From Snowshoe Magazine

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 102
  What’s So Great About Snowshoeing? The sport is easy to learn, virtually inexpensive (compared to other winter sports), poses little risk of injury and is a great way to exert energy during the cold winter months. According to research provided by Snowsports Industries America, 40.8 percent of snowshoers are women ...
  4 days ago

• Removable Pulk Sled Poles

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 102
  By Jason Loomis of Loomis Adventures I recently began using a new pulk sled, the Pelican Snow Trek 60. For those unfamiliar, a pulk is a a toboggan used to haul gear like tents, sleeping bags, and food over snow usually pulled by a person on skis or snowshoes. They are very handy for getting larger amounts of ...
  5 days ago

• Benefits of Snowshoeing

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 102
  Over the last few years, there has been tremendous growth in snowshoeing, with participation up 43% from 2006 to 2009, according to the latest SIA Intelligence Report. This growth reflects a shift toward affordable, healthy recreational activity. Did You Know… 46% of snowshoers are women 12% of snowshoers are ...
  6 days ago

• Winter Poo – Pack it out

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 102
  What to do, with your winter poo? In spring, the poo, once hidden from view, becomes exposed and soon contaminates nearby waterways. In winter, it’s best to pack it out, otherwise, you’re leaving behind frozen waste for the next visitors. Leave No Trace (LNT)  outlines three options for solid waste, in order of ...
  1 week ago

• Frostbite

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 102
  Frostbite occurs when an individual’s skin or those tissues beneath his skin freeze. Frostbite most often develops in the face, ears, nose, feet, and hands of someone who is exposed to the cold for a length of time or even severe cold for just a few minutes. Frostbite causes the fluids that exist in the body’s ...
  1 week ago

• TENT IN SNOW —(A mountain climb series by SparkyLeigh on...

  
  Backcountry Compass — Authority: 135
  TENT IN SNOW —(A mountain climb series by SparkyLeigh on Flickr. Winter camping near Mt. Rainier after over three feet of snow has fallen over night. - Backpacking, Hiking, & Camping Gear
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• Cold vs. Hot Tent Camping

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 102
  Tim Jones has a nice article entitled “Cold Can Be Warm: Two Ways to Winter Camp” comparing cold and warm camping, otherwise known as hot tenting.  From Tim’s article: “ Cold camping means camping without a heat source, relying on a tent or tarp to shelter you from wind and falling or drifting snow, and warm ...
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• Snowshoeing Gaiters

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 107
  As an avid snowshoer I know how important gaiters are to keeping snow from slipping in-between your pants and the top of your boots. Snow gaiters can keep both your pants and feet dry when you snowshoe in the deep stuff. Gaiters for snowshoeing are usually longer than hiking gaiters and typically extend up near the ...
  1 week ago

• WinterCampers.com at Dead Vly

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 107
  I merged  pictures from our winter camping trip to Dead Vly with Walt Michael’s hammer dulcimer tune “Hawks and Eagles” using PhotoStory for Windows.  Matt did one of these last year and I liked the results.  I didn’t do as much panning in the photos and the photos move by fast (5 seconds or less) because I ...
  1 week ago

• Winter Camping

  
  New York Outdoors Blog — Authority: 119
  Click here for everything you need to know to enjoy winter camping. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: camping , winter camping
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• Dead Vly January 17

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 107
  Our initial plan was to camp on the shores of Buckhorn Lake, also known as Fiddler’s Lake, which is located in the southern Adirondacks.  It was a convenient meeting area for campers coming from Holland Patent, Barneveld, Sprakers, Carlisle and East Berne.  Skip and I arrived 1st with the intent of scouting for a ...
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• Winter Camping at Bennett Lake

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 107
  Martin Luther King weekend has become a traditional WinterCampers.com date on the calendar.  Matt, Len and Mark kept this tradition alive and were joined by a promising rookie named Rick.  The quartet set out with plans to bushwhack their way up Moose and Baldhead Mountians in the Stoney Creek area.  With Google ...
  2 weeks ago

• What can you learn from winter camping?

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 102
  Tim Jones over at EasternSlopes had some pithy items in one of his articles “ Lessons From A First (Winter) Campout”. Read the article, but I extracted the lessons taught by Winter Camping as individual items. We are all essentially responsible for ourselves and we all need to carry our fair share. Sometimes ...
  2 weeks ago

• Freezer Bag Cooking

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 107
  Freezerbag cooking is ideal for winter camping.  It’s lightweight because you prepare all your dried ingredients  at home and prepackage them in Ziploc bags. You only need a single pot to boil water in, enough fuel to boil the water, and a fabric cozy for your bagged meal (a spare garment will work in pinch). ...
  2 weeks ago

• Setting Up The Tipi

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 107
  We often ‘hot tent’ using a Kifaru Tipi .  The set up process involves clearing a large area of snow – or at least leveling the snow as much as possible. Then we stake out the tent. Insert the center pole and lift the Tipi. Setting up the woodstove and chimmney. Home sweet Tipi. ...
  2 weeks ago

• You might be a winter camper if….

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 107
  You don’t find the word crampon funny… or maybe you do.  
  2 weeks ago

• Building a Reflector Fire

  
  WinterCampers.com - Celebrating the winter camping experience. — Authority: 107
  A reflector fire is really any fire that has some sort of flat surface behind it to direct the heat back out past the fire. This surface is erected behind the fire and pointed, for example, at the face of a tent, lean-to or other shelter. This back reflector can be made out of a few large slabs of bark, several ...
  2 weeks ago

• Winter camping at Mont Blanc glacier (mer de glace), France by...

  
  Backcountry Compass — Authority: 135
  Winter camping at Mont Blanc glacier (mer de glace), France by RvDario on Flickr. Campfire sparks streak into the sky on this cold winter night.
  2 weeks ago

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