Well I love winter camping, but have decided along with some friends to try it the Conovers' way (see "The Snow Walker's companion", their great book). They have many ideas taken from old style and native techniques, but the linchpin is using a lightweight cotton tent with a wood-burning stove. This way we will have all the advantages mentioned before, plus a heated lighted tent, even in the middle of the Boundary Waters. Total weight for our 4 person tent plus stove = 31#, not too bad when you divide the it up. Now all we need is a "real" winter here in MN to test the setup, so we are hoping for -30 or colder this year... Sarah O. PS maybe we should try stuffing the stove into a kayak for shoulder season kayak camping, too. I think it would almost fit? > << Here are a few advantages of winter wilderness camping: >> > > GREAT, Chuck, bet you get other advantages from the list. Of course you > neglected to mention the bit about freezing your tushie off! I was horrified > about the thought of sleeping under a tarp - not even tent walls???? EEEEK. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Nov 30 1999 - 19:06:17 PST
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