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Ken Libbrecht’s Field Guide to Snowflakes describes all the different types of snowflakes in detail, including annotated sketches and photographs.  The text describes how snowflakes grow and form. The taxonomy of snow is categorized succinctly here. If you want to go outside and really look at snowflakes, this is your book.
You can also find an [...]

Today’s article, “Winter camping-lessons in the real world“, is from Tim Jones writing about his recent winter camping experience in the Concord Monitor on February 29.  Tim relates making a couple of mistakes common to us all:  starting our trip too late and attempting to travel too far in the snow. He discusses using his [...]

Mike Waters, who well known for his reporting of Syracuse Basketball, wrote an article on dressing for winter camping entitled “Out Cold - Today’s High-Tech Clothing And Gear Make It Easier To Stay Warm And Dry When Camping During The Winter“.  The article discusses layering, use of synthetic fabrics, avoiding overheating, sleeping bags, keeping your [...]

Today’s winter camping article is entitled “Tips for Winter Campers” By Peter Antos-Ketcham of the Green Mountain Club. The article appeared in the Rutland Herald (www.rutlandherald.com) on February 10, 2008. The four page article is organized along topics such as:

Dress like an onion
Stay comfortably cool
Fuel your body
Know where you are going
Keep an eye [...]

I have been using various search engines to scour the web for recent articles on winter camping. I will be adding these articles to our Winter Camping Articles.
The most recent article is “Getting The Kinks Out-Winter Camping Requires Practice” by Tim Jones. I exchanged emails with Tim to secure his permission to use [...]

USAToday used to run a weekly column entitled “Hot Sites” and WinterCampers.com was one of the three featured sites for this week in 2005. Here’s what they had to say along with a thumbnail photo from a 2002.12 trip to John Pond.

“Enter the world of outdoor enthusiasts that would rather battle sub-zero temperatures than [...]

I have attended two Leave No Trace training classes: a weekend Leave No Trace trainer taught through the Green Mtn Club in Sept 2001 and a week long Master Educator class taught by the Appalachian Mtn Club through the ADK in Sept 2006. In both classes the participants were required to teach some [...]

When I was teaching/coaching at Columbia HS, I had Matt and Ken in class and on my track team that I was helping Len coach.  Quite a way to see the country. 
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A year or so ago I received an email from WinterCampers.com member Skip with a long list of recipients. One of the names caught my eye - Jim Clayton. I knew a Jim Clayton in college at SUNY Oneonta. Jim and I lived in the same dorm and had similar “outdoorsy” interests. [...]

Janet Rice-Bredin reported in her blog of the 8th annual Deep Freeze winter camping expedition began this week in Sudbury, Canada. Every February, people from all over Ontario and some from New York State spend 8 days camping on a remote northern lake. They load their gear which is tied to sleds and toboggans onto [...]