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Tim Jones has a nice article entitled “Cold Can Be Warm: Two Ways to Winter Camp” comparing cold and warm camping, otherwise known as hot tenting. From Tim’s article: “Cold camping means camping without a heat source, relying on a tent or tarp to shelter you from wind and falling or drifting snow, and warm [...] We often ‘hot tent’ using a Kifaru Tipi. The set up process involves clearing a large area of snow – or at least leveling the snow as much as possible. Then we stake out the tent. Insert the center pole and lift the Tipi. Setting up the wood stove and chimney. [...] A group of five made a winter camping trip to Nistowiak Falls in Northern Saskatchewan. The trip was organized by Mark Lafontaine who wrote an account on his blog at http://wildpaddler.blogspot.com. Bryan of Bryan’s Boat Building & Paddling Blog wrote two accounts: a description of the trip and lessons learned from the trip They pulled [...] |
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