Cold weather Overlanding tips
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Yarjammer
Wellreadneck
I add a buddy heater, extra gloves, extra wool socks, layering appropriate clothes, and slightly more firewood than I think I'll need. My meals are also much simpler since my hands may have less dexterity without gloves while prepping/cooking. I second the snowboarding pants recommendation. They are armored in the knees and butt, making them perfect for camping pants (I spray the crap out of them with Nikwax each year before the season begins).
In the winter I wouldn't think of leaving without a second, capable vehicle.
In the winter I wouldn't think of leaving without a second, capable vehicle.
Mass_Mopar
Don't Litter
For me, the beer just changes to Guinness
Mr Buddy heater is great for taking the edge off the tent before shutting it off and going to sleep
I also ratchet down my risk tolerance. It's way too easy to get into a situation where ice ruins your day, like it almost did for me last year. More exploring by foot, less by Jeep.
Mr Buddy heater is great for taking the edge off the tent before shutting it off and going to sleep
I also ratchet down my risk tolerance. It's way too easy to get into a situation where ice ruins your day, like it almost did for me last year. More exploring by foot, less by Jeep.
For me, the beer just changes to Guinness
Mr Buddy heater is great for taking the edge off the tent before shutting it off and going to sleep
I also ratchet down my risk tolerance. It's way too easy to get into a situation where ice ruins your day, like it almost did for me last year. More exploring by foot, less by Jeep.
Very nice. How do you get your dog in and out of the tent?
Mass_Mopar
Don't Litter
She's only 55 lbs I just carry her up and down the ladder. She's used to it now, took a few times for her to learn.
Hilldweller
SE Expedition Society
Cold weather; seems like a memory.
Global freakin warming is messing it all up for us in Georgia.
We moved here from Florida to have seasons. It was 86 degrees yesterday.
Here are our last two big camping parties. January and February. In the mountains. Where it used to be snowy in the winter.
Flipflops and shorts. Unbelievable. Bugs. You need bug spray in February now.
Camping season is over for us when the evening temperatures get above 68 degrees.
Well, that's about now.
Gunna hafta move to Montana.
Global freakin warming is messing it all up for us in Georgia.
We moved here from Florida to have seasons. It was 86 degrees yesterday.
Here are our last two big camping parties. January and February. In the mountains. Where it used to be snowy in the winter.
Flipflops and shorts. Unbelievable. Bugs. You need bug spray in February now.
Camping season is over for us when the evening temperatures get above 68 degrees.
Well, that's about now.
Gunna hafta move to Montana.
IdaSHO
IDACAMPER
86??
No thanks.
We still havn't seen above 55 degrees yet, and Im perfectly fine with that! :ylsmoke:
We have found over the past few years that our prototype IDACAMPER2.0 is insulated well enough that if it is above 40 degrees outside, there is little to no need to even fire up the heater. A couple of adults, and cooking dinner in the evening is more than enough to get the interior temps up to 65 or so in just a few hours. And overnight the interior temps hover between 60 and 65. Thats even with a coupld of windows cracked, to help with the additional moisture we deal with this time of year (rainy season)
No thanks.
We still havn't seen above 55 degrees yet, and Im perfectly fine with that! :ylsmoke:
We have found over the past few years that our prototype IDACAMPER2.0 is insulated well enough that if it is above 40 degrees outside, there is little to no need to even fire up the heater. A couple of adults, and cooking dinner in the evening is more than enough to get the interior temps up to 65 or so in just a few hours. And overnight the interior temps hover between 60 and 65. Thats even with a coupld of windows cracked, to help with the additional moisture we deal with this time of year (rainy season)
Hilldweller
SE Expedition Society
You ain't kiddin. I had to fire up the air conditioner yesterday. Earliest I've ever done that.
Shorts, sunburn. Didn't lose my tan this year at all.
bigskypylot
Explorer
Mass_Mopar
Don't Litter
There's a whole thread on this topic in the roof tent subforum. My favorite solution was a hallway carpet from the hood up the windshield to the roof, toss a bone in the tent and the mutt runs right up and jumps in...
Hilldweller
SE Expedition Society
My buddy's son just got his masters from Montana State and he's heading out there this spring camp for a few months. I'd like to head up again....
I'd go to Glacier though. Bozeman's gotten too big.
bigskypylot
Explorer
Yes, I agree. I'm out of state for contract work right now and headed to Wyoming for work and then when I get back to Montana, it'll probably be Red Lodge, Ennis or Kalispell.
Ya I read that. On my 13' tundra it sits too low to get him in that way (which in turn helps me lift him in and out). I'm hoping once I finish my rack for my 02' that I can get him up that way.
