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How do you make winter backpacking more enjoyable?
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Nov 15, 2011 at 8:58 pm #1802266
The last five, six years, I've been doing more group trips in the winter. Learned a few things from our N Ca group, as before, I was self taught like my summer trips. Others around really help pass the time, if going solo, I stomp around camp then when I go to bed, I have my headlamp and read a little. I've started using those chemical heat packs put into my boots or down booties, although I think another sit pad used just to place my feet on when sitting around the kitchen would help.
DuaneNov 16, 2011 at 10:49 am #1802418Wow, these are all great ideas, thanks.
To clarify, I have done a bit of winter backpacking, I'm more curious as to the nifty tricks that make things more fun. Here's a list of the more novel ideas so far:
1) Hot water bottles in the shoes – brilliant!
2) Digging a hole in the snow in front of your tent for cooking and feet dangling – nice!
3) The TiGoat wood stove – I so wish!
Nov 16, 2011 at 10:44 pm #1802648Hike in the dark. Make dinner at 4pm, keep trucking for 3-4 hours, stop, make camp, make soup, eat soup, sleep.
Get out and do it, the only way to realize it isn't a big deal.
Nov 21, 2011 at 1:07 pm #1804101One of the ways I make winter camping enjoyable and memorable is to take my Backpacker's Pantry baking oven components (fiberglass "yurt" hood, pot lid W/ BP's aneroid baking thermometer lid handle, diffuser plate).
Baking a 3-cup size Bisquick roll with a jelly center is great and many cake and muffin mixes require no raw eggs. Milk can be mixed in a Nalgene or bike bottle and added if necessary. Oils, always important in a winter diet, can come from melted stick margarine, which travels well in the winter.
You can't imagine how grateful fellow snow campers are to have you bake up a dessert.
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