Maybe, Maybe not.

Anyone who wants in can get in, just let me know.

Trygve
Please let me in.

CB

Haha, you may never get out.

Winter...that's the season with the snow and the cold...right?

Yes! I am looking forward to these dicussions. Here is a picture of my ancestorial BigZig's deer camp. Taken in 1936 somewhere near Brimson, MN.

Haha, you guys are just here cause you're my Posse.

That's really not that different from what we use these days.

Cool Big Zig. We lost our land lease in WI this year, so I got a Big A$% Cabelas for deer camp. My kids call it the Circus Tent. Just got off line looking at small hot tent options. Trygve, you said a buddy has a Snowtrekker(Empirecanvas),what size does he have for you guys?

CB

Trygve! Thanks for the invite! Sounds Cool!

The 2-3 person Shortwall. At least, that's what it looks like on the website.

OK. I've never had the winter camping bug, but I didn't start tripping to the BW until I was...well...pretty old. What's the allure for you winter campers?

Complete and utter solitude.

Lake Trout.

The stars at midnight in the middle of a lake on a crystal clear night when it's 20 below zero.

I love cold weather and I wish it was winter for 8 months up here, instead of 6.

Skiing.

Wolves.

Thanks for setting this up Trygve!

Looking forward to giving winter camping a try this year!

Trygve Do you recall what size stove he uses?

Four-dog ultralight II.

Thanks Trygve!

Last time I camped in the winter I froze my balls off!

I looked at those Tit stoves awhile back, I thought they were pricey then, now they have doubled because of the war. Spome place dont even list them anymore because no one is buying. One site had them for almost $800 for a Tit box stove. I will stick with my kni-co for awhile longer.

CB

Thanks for the invite. It's been awhile since I've been winter camping, but I hope to get out this year.

A little off topic, but I still have a tipi that I stayed in for a few months in the early 1980's. I cut several balsams for poles last winter. This year I debarked,sanded them and put a mixture of linseed oil and turpentine on them for a preservative. This really isn't to mobile, in fact it isn't.

I'm planning on putting it up on my property near Grand Rapids Minnesota just for the fun of it. I will post some photos of the poles later and if I get the tipi up this year I'll post some of those also.

This year I'm not sure if I'll buy a hot tent or just do some cold tenting.

I can't remember if it was this site or another, but the Winter 2006 Boundary Waters Journal has an article on some hot tents.

Chuck 09-27-07 I thought I had some better photos of my balsam fir poles that I cut last winter. Then this summer I put the perservative of them. I would have had the tipi up already but I'm going to enlarge my building area before I put it up. I don't want to put it up and then take it down again right away. I found some old pictures of me debarking some balsam and tamarack poles back in the fall of 1979. The pictures of the tipi are around 1982 or 1983 and it was set up across the road from the Isabella Ranger Station.

Yah CII They had a review of SnowT,kifaru and baker style from Frostriver in Duluth. He really liked the snowt,but it is still hard to swallow 1g for a tent. Maybe I am being too tight. Ma I would love to have one. I guy on myccr.com transformed an old canvs tent into a snowt style with the internal frame. He used an Eureka Timberline 6 frame and cover it with the old canvas tent( cut and sewed back together of course. Looked great. I am trying to get the mrs to help me start sewing.

CB

kifaru got the idea from the Indian tipis of old for their sil-nylon hot tent.

That TL-6 idea is great!

thanks for the invite Tryg!

Yah that got me fired up too.

Trygve

Looks like it is getting some legs.

CB

This is great, looking forward to this new forum will help us get thru the winter months on the site. Thanks Trygve for getting it started. I've got lots to share and learn as well.

Thanks for the invitation Trygve. Just got back from a trade show in Chicago. Glad to be back. Izzy

Eel pout season. ;)
Not sure when I'll get to winter camping up there, but I would like to.

Thanx for the invite Tryg,
Isn't "winter camping" just another term for "survival"???!
I may be survi...er...winter camping soon when we head for the Flat top montains on Oct 19th for an elk hunt. I see Loveland Pass had some snow last week. Better pack the chains!

Winter camping is not just another term for survival. However the percentage of making a mistake becomes much more critical. Like you probably shouldn't be finding out you left the extra fuel in the the truck or forgot to pack extra socks.
WT is great for many reasons. No Bugs (at least not very many that bug you), never rains, and you don't have to walk very far to get water. Plus there are many more bonuses.

Trygve,
Thanks for letting me in. Hope to learn much about winter camping and go around here (North Dakota).

What a great idea! I haven't been winter camping in years.From 83 to 86 I was stationed at Ft. Wainwright Alaska where I was assigned to a recon platoon(foot not aerial)needless to say I did extensive winter camping in Alaska.Some of the gear we used was a ten man circular tent with no floor(pine boughs)a yukon stove(similar to a outfitter stove but ran off of jp-4(gas)and was very dangerous because the burnerplate for stove sat on top in a hole and could be knocked over,then you have lit fuel squirting in the tent)never happened to my platoon but heard of it happening to others.We hauled our gear around in a pulk-like sled called an ahkio. We used these tents as a base camp that we would return to after doing patrols(on skis or snow shoes).When on patrol or recon we would use our type 3 arctic sleeping bags with a base of pine boughs and sleeping mat over that and then just your bag.I could write for hours on my experiences in the far north.But anyway I recently bought a cabelas bighorn 2 with stove and vestbule and floor liner and can't wait to show my 16 yr old son the beauty and joy of winter camping! Thanks to Trygve for starting this post! Roy