WinterCampers.com

“Weekend Warrior; Camping in the Cold: A Game of Survival” by Joe Glickman in the NY Times Published: March 13, 1998 relates the author’s winter camping mishaps, mistakes and successes.

BackPackingLight offers podcasts on a variety of backpacking topics with an emphasis on traveling light.  I subscribe to their podcasts via iTunes and found this older discussion on winter camping.  You can subscribe to their podcasts here.  They also have a companion article to the podcast which stresses key points:

Keeping warm without getting wet
Eat, eat, [...]

Winter campers are usually kind hearted, caring and forgiving.  However, upon occasion they can also be a bit vindictive.  What can happen if you promise to join the group and don’t make the trip?

Pictures from the entire trip are here.

We have discussed doing a winter camping trip in the Yellowstone area with WinterGreen
Dogsledding.  “Out Cold-Winter in Yellowstone Highlights Extremes” relates author Rich Landers’ experience cross country skiing and winter camping in Yellowstone.  The article appeared Friday, March 7, 2008 in The Spokesman-Review and can be read here.

I don’t check the Backpacker Magazine web site frequently as it doesn’t seem to be updated very often.  On my last visit I was surprised to see a web site overhaul.  Perhaps the changes at WinterCampers.com prompted web site envy?
I found the new site to be visually more attractive and easier to navigate.  According to [...]

I have read figures that one can lose between 20-40% of your body heat through your head alone.   Although 13-16% of the body’s blood volume is in the head at any given time it is a very exposed structure.  The problem is that the head is only about 10% of the body surface area.  [...]

Winter camping: reflections on living in the wilderness by Peter Morgan MD from the Canadian Medical Assoc Journal /APRIL 19, 1980/VOL. 122.   The author takes a week long winter camping trip in the Canadian Shield and describes his adaption to a winter-camping way of life.  The  article can be read here.

I didn’t buy much winter camping gear this year but the one purchase I made has been a pleasant surprise. The Columbia Kazoo Hat has become my regular snowshoeing and winter camping hat.  The fleece lined hat provides a baseball cap style brim with long ear flaps.  Since I routinely wear glasses the brim is [...]

One of the greatest winter camping adventures has begun again in Alaska.  You can go to www.iditarod.com to track all the action.  If you ever want to try some dogsled camping of your own there are several outfitters that offer trips.  Some of the crew from WinterCampers.com went to Minnesota several years ago for a [...]

The Spearhead Traverse is a two- to four-day backcountry ski trip into the unpopulated alpine realm that awaits just beyond the boundary ropes of Whistler Blackcomb, in British Columbia. The epitome of high (and cold) lonesome, it’s a journey of glacier crossings, impossibly fresh snow and winter camping in tents and huts.  The trip was [...]