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A Collection of Winter and Wilderness Survival Quizzes

Looking to test your wilderness survival knowledge?  Try these quizzes on Wilderness and Winter Survival.

Wilderness Survival Skills for Safe Wilderness Travel covers the gamut on survival skills including basic rules for survival, basic concepts, preparing for your trip, gear, a survival kit, survival knife, building shelter, building a fire, finding [...]

Winter Hiking Skills Workshop, December 1

Maine AMC will hold a  Winter Hiking Skills Workshop at the  South Portland Library on Tuesday, December 1.  An experienced crew of AMCers will give you the low down on clothing, gear and techniques for safe and enjoyable winter hiking.

Attendees will get the scoop on the Maine Chapter’s Winter Hiking Series which includes 22 [...]

More Quinzee Instruction

Who needs a tent for winter camping? Ottawa Outdoor Magazine provides an illustrated, instructional article “How To Build A Quinzee” by Allen Macartney covering what is a quinzee, digging a hole and filling it in, snug in any temperature, customizing the domicile, and cautionary notes.

If you are interested check out the article [...]

Four-Season Tents

BackCountry.com published a Tent Buyers Guide to help de-mystify walls, seasons and vestibules and seasons for 3- season tents, 4-season (winter) tents and family tents.  I extracted the relevant Winter Camping information below.

Defining Features

- All vents can be closed during storms. – Tougher materials than three-season tents. – Multiple guy-out points [...]

Adirondack Lean-tos

The Lean-to is an open faced camping shelter found throughout the Adirondack Park back-country areas and along the Appalachian Trail. They are also found in the Nordic European nation of Finland, although in Finland they are called “laavus” instead. These Finnish lean-tos serve as temporary housing for people on hiking, camping or fishing expeditions out [...]

Who Needs High-Tech Sleeping Pads?

Chad models his Neon Pocket Air Mattress (in it’s original packaging)  that he used on the recent Chimney Mtn camping trip.  This was Chad’s 1st winter camping trip with us so he can be forgiven for not overspending on gear. But Chad, if you want to continue with us you have to start buying lots [...]

Winter Outdoor Expo November 20-22

MidWest Mtn is hosting a  Winter Outdoor Expo from Friday, Nov. 20th through Sunday, Nov. 22nd,

Featured presenters and programs include:  Lonnie Dupre, On Thin Ice to the North Pole;  Mike Farris, I Was an Everest Zombie!;  John Huston and Tyler Fish, Skiing to the North Pole the Hard Way;  Rod and Sharon Johnson, 12 [...]

Snowshoes would have been nice….

while climbing up Snowy Mountain.  Sparky and Jay post-hole their way up Snowy Mountain.

Individual Camping Items

If you find it inconvenient to troll the local grocery or pharmacy looking for individual items of food and/or personal care you can now order them online while planning your next winter camping trip.

Minimus.biz touts themselves as “The World Leader in all things travel-sized and individual-sized.“  Their web site offers beverages, domestics, food, [...]

Leonids Camping Trip

A few years back on this date in November 2001 Jim, Rob and Len set out for Long Pond for a nice dark view of the Leonid Meteor Shower on what was a very chilly November weekend. Rob took one for the team while gathering fire wood and had to sop the blood up with [...]