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Personal Hygiene: The Paper Shower

Keeping clean while winter camping is a challenge, especially on multi-day trips. One method is to use pre-packaged cleaning wipes. The standard “wet wipe” contains a high alcohol content and are primarily design to wipe your hands. An alternative is “The Paper Shower”.

Paper Shower is a combination wet and dry towelette pack. The moist [...]

Layering for a Winter Hike

When taking off for a hike during the winter one always has decisions to make.  Do I start off wearing extra clothes knowing that in 10 minutes I will have to stop and shed layers?  Or do I start off with fewer clothes knowing that, once hiking, I will warm up comfortably.  In either case [...]

How To Get Winter Camping More Frequently

Careers,  family responsibilities, home ownership and lives in general provide a myriad of excuses for not winter camping.  To help get out winter camping more frequently consider adopting some of these suggestions.

Set an annual goal. One winter I set a goal of getting out once every month from November through April.  Six very different [...]

WinterCampers.com Recipes

A sample of  goodies from the Ziploc Bag series?

Pudding in a Bag

Instant Pudding Powered Milk Mint Cookies (chopped) Water Ziploc Freezer Bag

Place pudding mix in ziploc with chopped mint cookies. Add enough powered milk as per amount of milk needed. At camp add necessary water to bag. Seal bag and shake to [...]

Make Your Next Winter Camping Trip More Enjoyable!

Hard to believe, it sounds a bit odd, really – tips for making your next winter camping trip more enjoyable? Isn’t that the reason you are going winter camping in the first place – to have fun doing something you love?  Here’s a list to help you be sure you’re getting the most out of [...]

A snowy cook fire

There were a “few” snowflakes in the air as we made a cook fire against this huge boulder.  The meal that night was Brats – easy to prepare and no clean-up.

The Sawvivor saw can be seen hanging from the tree.  Two thumbs up for the Sawvivor!

Below Mark, Len, Jason, Rob and [...]