The Washington Trails Association published a short list of Snow Camping Tips presenting advice on Setting up Camp, Cooking, “Using the Facilities” and Sleeping. You can read their post here or here.
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Algonquin Outfitters in Oxtongue Lake is hosting their 15th annual Winter Fun Day on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2009. Winter Fun Day is designed to introduce people to non-motorized winter activities like snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, skate skiing, sledding, winter camping and dog sledding. This year’s event will include driving a dog team, helping build an igloo, [...] Paths, Peaks & Paddles in Rochester, NY is teaming up with Williamsville Community Education to present a Winter Camping 101 class. Come out and learn how to camp in the winter. Over the a course of 5 Wednesday evenings you will learn how to: travel, camp, cook, prepare meals & be warm. Then take [...] John Lee is a freelance writer from Canada who contributed an article on igloo building to The Dallas Morning News. John joined 5 other winter campers who spent 5 hours building two six foot igloos for their overnight stay in Garibaldi Provincial Park in British Columbia’s Coastal Mountains. The article has three nice pictures depicting [...] What is a Quinzee? A quinzee (also quinhzee) is a combination of an igloo and a snow cave. Quinzees are suitable in marginal snow conditions, or when a crust is not available for igloos, or when there is not enough deep packed snow for a snow cave. On the flip side a quinzee won’t last [...] Researchers at the Department of National Defence (equivalent to USA’s DARPA) have developed the Torso Heating for Dexterity in the Cold system, a close fitting battery-powered vest with a built-in thermostat. Rather than covering the hands with a heated glove, the vest increases the wearer’s core temperature to the point where the body can keep [...] Rebecca over at Rambling posted her trip report to Yosemite with the Yahoo! online group “NorthCA_Hiking”. Many of us have been lurking members of outdoor groups, but she joined this group as a 1st time participant for their scheduled Winterfest 2009. Her trip report is excellent and she has a nice set of photos [...] The Backyard Bushman (Brian Andrews ) has a nice five part series on his winter camping trip Tahquamenon Falls in Michigan’s Upper Pennisula. Tahquamenon Falls is a public campsite, but deserted during the winter. His series is interesting because he has a lot of nice photographs on their setup, the water falls and he [...] We had a variety of tents and sleeping systems with us this past weekend. Below Skip wakes up in his bivy with freshly fallen snow around him. We are going camping this weekend and I am pumped. I have some new equipment to try out: homemade primaloft pants, a new tent, and new gloves. But it is also special that we will be camping not just under a full moon, but the biggest full moon of 2009. This Saturday night, Jan. 10th, [...] |
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