The best part about winter is that no one else is outside. You get to walk around and breath in the crisp air and just enjoy the world. No people, no problems
I’ve tried winter camping twice. Both times I was cold, wet, and miserable the entire time. Cold, wet, and miserable are things that I try to avoid, not seek out.
Winter camping can be pretty hard but with practice you can really enjoy it. Its a balance of adjusting layers based on temperature and activity level and changing your layers as needed when sweaty or wet.
Also you need a pretty good sleeping pad alongside the warm blankets/sleeping bag.
Yeah, I had a cotton sleeping bag, and a cardboard ground pad. I was a poor kid, going with my boy scout troop. I have thought about doing it again with the right gear, but decided against it. I’ll be sleeping in the snow when I attempt to summit Mt. Rainier, but otherwise those two experiences were miserable enough that I don’t really want to seek out that experience.
I think it was more of a gear issue. I knew what to do, but I was poor and didn’t really have the right clothing or gear. I’ve thought about trying it again now, but those experiences put me off enough that I’m not going to try again until my Mt. Rainier summit attempt. For that trip I expect to be miserable the whole time anyways, so if I am, no love lost.
Yeah, late Spring, Summer, or early Fall camping is a lot more enjoyable than being freezing cold during Winter. Dragging out tons of gear just to keep yourself from literally freezing to death isn’t that fun IMO.
Unless you live in a place like NYC. It’s still cold as shit, but you have to be outside in order to get anywhere. Putting on an arctic level jacket just to walk to the subway, and then having to take it off because the subway car is 70F but then having to put it back on when you get outside because it’s freezing cold, but then having to unzip it while walking around because you’ve built up body heat and it’s stupid humid out, even though it’s like 25F is just flat out annoying. Also, once you get to your destination there’s no place to put your coat.
Being out in fresh snow in a desolate area is definitely captivating though.
The best part about winter is that no one else is outside. You get to walk around and breath in the crisp air and just enjoy the world. No people, no problems
I’ve tried winter camping twice. Both times I was cold, wet, and miserable the entire time. Cold, wet, and miserable are things that I try to avoid, not seek out.
Winter camping can be pretty hard but with practice you can really enjoy it. Its a balance of adjusting layers based on temperature and activity level and changing your layers as needed when sweaty or wet.
Also you need a pretty good sleeping pad alongside the warm blankets/sleeping bag.
That sounds like a lot of work just to sleep outside.
Yeah, I had a cotton sleeping bag, and a cardboard ground pad. I was a poor kid, going with my boy scout troop. I have thought about doing it again with the right gear, but decided against it. I’ll be sleeping in the snow when I attempt to summit Mt. Rainier, but otherwise those two experiences were miserable enough that I don’t really want to seek out that experience.
Skill issue
I think it was more of a gear issue. I knew what to do, but I was poor and didn’t really have the right clothing or gear. I’ve thought about trying it again now, but those experiences put me off enough that I’m not going to try again until my Mt. Rainier summit attempt. For that trip I expect to be miserable the whole time anyways, so if I am, no love lost.
Yeah, late Spring, Summer, or early Fall camping is a lot more enjoyable than being freezing cold during Winter. Dragging out tons of gear just to keep yourself from literally freezing to death isn’t that fun IMO.
Here people go out to enjoy winter
Unless you live in a place like NYC. It’s still cold as shit, but you have to be outside in order to get anywhere. Putting on an arctic level jacket just to walk to the subway, and then having to take it off because the subway car is 70F but then having to put it back on when you get outside because it’s freezing cold, but then having to unzip it while walking around because you’ve built up body heat and it’s stupid humid out, even though it’s like 25F is just flat out annoying. Also, once you get to your destination there’s no place to put your coat.
Being out in fresh snow in a desolate area is definitely captivating though.