I have gone on winter camping trips with Rob since seven years ago in January 2002. The picture below depicts Ian, Mark and Rob at a rest break during the hike into Puffer Pond. Ian is hydrating, which is good, Mark is looking pretty chipper, and we can see Rob, although he has his back [...]
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Adventures and Life went on an large group winter backpacking trip on a section of the Ice Age Trail (which stretches across the entire state of Wisconsin) in Kettle Moraine State Park Northern Unit. Incredible terrain, big rolling moraines with the trail often following the ridgelines, big sweeping “kettles” or giant rounded indentations, often with [...] There are a lot of reasons to go winter camping – the joy of being outdoors, fresh air, wholesome exercise and…. if one is desperate for a hug one can always sharing their love with a mature white pine! Rich Staats from ridethebeav.com said Thanks for the link to ride the beav. Great Site! I’ll be checking this out regularly. Ed from foulhooked.blogspot.com commented Thanks for more blogs to clutter my reader too. Thanks for the reminder…we were on Greylock 3 weekends ago and I still haven’t put up pics, lol. Thanks for more [...] Tjamrog’s Weblog “Living large while walking the big Trail” describes a 5 day winter camping trip snowshoeing across Moosehead Lake pulling a waxed bottom, wooden toboggan loaded with a 17 pound, 9 x 12 Egyptian cotton tent, the box stove, 5 lengths of stovepipe, and the tent fly and three boxes of food, a [...] There are disadvantages to being tall. Being the 1st to snowshoe down a trail with snow covered limbs is one of the problems. Below Matt clears the trail for those that follow. We usually associate winter camping with snow camping, but Jack Bauer at Mountain Photographer describes his 3 day 2 night trip with no snow through the Great Sand Dunes National Park. The description of his trip is brief, but the pictures are worth viewing. I have never given tent color much thought when purchasing a new tent. Unlike buying a pair of pants, there aren’t color options when selecting a particular tent model. However, there is a lot of thought that goes into the selection of a tent color by the manufacturer. This is from Oware, who makes tarps [...] Alaskan Adventure posted pictures of their snow camping trip in the mountains to ski and snowboard. Life, Adventure and Fitness skied 6.5km into Mash Lake for winter camping two nights and XC skiing. Opening the door, walking outside posts “How long does a night last, anyway?” about her sleepless night winter camping. [...] There are benefits to winter camping in an Adirondack Lean-to. Foremost, is that you don’t have to carry your shelter with you. They are spacious; although each lean-to can be different typically there is adequate room for 5. The lean-to provides a level, dry platform for changing clothes, setting up a stove, mixing food, or [...] |
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