Not trying to compete with the great winter camping website, Wintertrekking.com, just a place where our members can share their experiences while the canoes are stored away and the water remains solid.
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New Winter Camping section added
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great addition to the site. Thank you.
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Thanx Robin. For those of us not part of wintertrekking.com, this is going to be a great addition.
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Robin - That's great! Especially since the last winter trip I went on was planned via this forum. My guess is we'll quickly see a report from Greenfrog; who posted a wonderful video on a recent trip to the southern Adirondacks that he, Bioguide, Coldfeet, bcelect and I were able to all make.
That's all for now. Take care, thanks for the new addition to an already great site and until next time...be well.
snapper
That's all for now. Take care, thanks for the new addition to an already great site and until next time...be well.
snapper
Thanks.
Sometimes I worry about diluting the original purpose of this website by introducing new sections. After viewing Greenfrogs excellent winter camping trip video https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf1VYbVKmn7ilaAYe2mEDoQ and recognizing a bunch of folks as members here I went ahead and added the new winter camping section.
One of the things I like most about winter camping is the fact that a lot of wc gear can be used to extend your canoe tripping seasons from early spring to late fall.
Anyway, I hope our members take advantage of this new section and we hear great trip reports from fellow canoetrippers
I will move the section to a new part of the forum at a later date.
Sometimes I worry about diluting the original purpose of this website by introducing new sections. After viewing Greenfrogs excellent winter camping trip video https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf1VYbVKmn7ilaAYe2mEDoQ and recognizing a bunch of folks as members here I went ahead and added the new winter camping section.
One of the things I like most about winter camping is the fact that a lot of wc gear can be used to extend your canoe tripping seasons from early spring to late fall.
Anyway, I hope our members take advantage of this new section and we hear great trip reports from fellow canoetrippers
I will move the section to a new part of the forum at a later date.
I recently described winter camping as "a lot like canoe tripping, but with more underwear"
Sorry BV it came up unlike.
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Robin,
Since most of us can't paddle now, I think this topic is just fine.
Turtle
Since most of us can't paddle now, I think this topic is just fine.
Turtle
And a lot it is done where we would be canoeing.
I know that winter camping threads would be enjoyed by this Louisiana native.
We don't really get weather that most of you think of as winter.
So unless we travel, reading and viewing reports of winter camping are the best way to vicariously experience true winter.
Today was 75, with a low tonight of 56. Can only dream of snow.
Looking forward to being taken along through y'alls posts.
We don't really get weather that most of you think of as winter.
So unless we travel, reading and viewing reports of winter camping are the best way to vicariously experience true winter.
Today was 75, with a low tonight of 56. Can only dream of snow.
Looking forward to being taken along through y'alls posts.
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Thank You Robin, great thread. Now we are an all around Four Season site.
I didn't take out my camera last weekend So I have nothing to post in that department but I was there. It was a great learning experience and next time I will cull my gear down to two sled fulls. Trailing one plastic sled behind the other is an experience both uphill and down.The trick is to keep them really close together, otherwise, the first one makes the turn but the second one wants to go straight.
I didn't take out my camera last weekend So I have nothing to post in that department but I was there. It was a great learning experience and next time I will cull my gear down to two sled fulls. Trailing one plastic sled behind the other is an experience both uphill and down.The trick is to keep them really close together, otherwise, the first one makes the turn but the second one wants to go straight.
I got home late tonight from work. The highway had changed, as it always does between 4pm and 5pm, into a parking lot. I got off onto an alternate parking lot and crawled through an industrial section full of steel and steam. Our daughter lives nearby in a slowly gentrifying inner city neighbourhood. I surprised both her and her dog with my visit. I caught her in the middle of another of her landscape paintings. I secretly wondered how she could reveal wildwood splendour on a canvas, while just outside her door spirit crushing concrete and cars crowded for attention. Her dog curled on my lap, and we drank tea while the busy outside world evaporated. Too soon I was on my way again, heading for home with spirits lifted and heart lightened. When I got home I found my wife totally demoralized by work and workload. Her office is preparing to dump a lot of work and worry on her, and so I gave her a pep talk and as many hugs as necessary to rejuvenate her. And we made plans for a fun weekend of doing nothing extraordinary, just plain and simple things fully loved and wonderful.
Which leads me to my point; we're practicing our hygge, and have been for many years. In fact it's been a part of our lives before we'd ever heard of it. I'm sure you've read about this newfound Scandinavian thing.
http://lifehacker.com/how-to-get-thr...h-c-1791001000
I recently read just this morning: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince...nter-1.3943048
Hygge seems a perfect fit with winter camping ( as it is also with canoe tripping). The good and simple things in life, fully appreciated and embraced, while the winter storms howl outside the tent flaps, we can hunker down to another cup of coffee and one more fireside story. Put another log on the fire.
Which leads me to my point; we're practicing our hygge, and have been for many years. In fact it's been a part of our lives before we'd ever heard of it. I'm sure you've read about this newfound Scandinavian thing.
http://lifehacker.com/how-to-get-thr...h-c-1791001000
I recently read just this morning: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince...nter-1.3943048
Hygge seems a perfect fit with winter camping ( as it is also with canoe tripping). The good and simple things in life, fully appreciated and embraced, while the winter storms howl outside the tent flaps, we can hunker down to another cup of coffee and one more fireside story. Put another log on the fire.
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I welcome the addition
Thanks Robin, this is great.
Thanks Robin much appreciated. Hope to uploads pics from that ADK trip last weekend. So much to do so little time.
Very sweet, hope to have something to add to it soon!
Thanks for sharing that. Truth is that I first realized hot tenting on the east coast was possible when I was researching Bog River Flow and found Robins youtube videos. Pictures are posted here for easy viewing. https://natureintoaction.com/
Hopefully, I'll find some time just after ice out to use the hot tent on the canoe and do some trout fishing. Somewhere I read that historical ice out in the Adirondacks is April 23rd. So, it could be a last minute location decision based on open water availability.
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It was great meeting Snapper, GreenFrog, bcelect, and others on this trip. I only attended for the day with a young friend of the family (I'll be heading out for a solo trip next week). Here is my video take on this trip:
https://youtu.be/cLqCIddgRFs
https://youtu.be/cLqCIddgRFs
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