Winter Camping Thread

>>921723
I've done some haphazard bullshit car winter camping, and there's not much to it except pack a lot more food and warm clothes and shit to burn than you expect.

I'm going out for my first full up winter time backpacking trip in a few weeks. I've been hiking towards the end of fall and the beginning of spring, but never this.

It's going to be in the Shenandoahs so it won't be anything like what you did (no sleds, probly get to 10F at the lowest extreme at night, 40f days) Still excited though.

>>921756
nice, its a pretty fun experience, alot more work than normal camping. What are you doing for shelter?

>>921762
Not sure yet. I might take my REI two man tent, maybe just take my whole US army modular sleep system (would probly supplement the bivy sack with a poncho/tarp). Suggestions? I don't really have or want to spend the $$ on a four season tent.

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Built this for my tent. (Az fag i get really cold really easily) going to test it tomorrow night, hopefully in a light snow.

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>>922134

>>922134
>>922135
huh, that's pretty interesting anon. Did you design that yourself? Aren't the candles going to burn out quickly? let us know how it works

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>>922138

No there's a ton of youtubes and instructables on these, i just didnt use wood at all and i elevated the tealights to keep heat off the cookie sheet. Im trying to make it as safe as possible for tent use. In theory the tealights should burn 4 hours, which should be enough because of how much I have to piss throughout the night. I'm a car camper that loves his beer kek.

I'm up for it, but this year's winter has been very mild so far.

>>922260
is that your rig? if so would be interested to see a few more pics

>>922265
I wish, eventually i want to build something close to that. Im still rolling tents.

>>922134
>>922135
Curious, what do you do in order to ventilate the tent and prevent carbon monoxide buildup from the burning?

>>922394

It was windy as fuck to the point my tent + rainfly + tarp was still drafty, so I cracked a vent on the door.

>>922138
If it had better, longer lasting candles, with better flames, then tealights it would've worked better. As it was it only took the edge off the cold which is what I expected. It worked really well as a sock and hat dryer and a hand warmer though! It was pouring rain and about 33-35 degrees so it was highly irritating it didnt just start snowing and save me the drip drop noises on my tent.

Low of -18 (F) here tonight, so I do believe I'll sleep inside

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yea winter camping is fun. this was on one of the few snow days we´ve had so far, had some ligth snow that melted as soon as it hit the ground the other day, more please

does anyone have suggestions for what to eat while camping in the cold that you normally wouldnt in the summer?

>>923796
Hot foods.

>>923796

Heavy ass steaks year round.

>>923809
This guy knows what's up

>>922134
What part of AZ? Flagstaff here.

>>923826

Camped in cherry az.