A little late season camping

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Some light campin over the weekend...The BATAC is a sweet camp knife...good size for food prep and stuff....

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Awesome pics, but what do you mean late season???

This is the beginning of the best part of camping season! Cold weather camping rocks.
 
MustardMan said:
Awesome pics, but what do you mean late season???

This is the beginning of the best part of camping season! Cold weather camping rocks.
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Cold weather where you live is warm weather for the rest of us.

When the temp is below 0 degrees is becomes unpleasant to say the least. That's not to say I don't camp now but . . .
 
I grew up in PA, and have definitely camped below 0 degrees. It also gets quite a bit colder in the N. Georgia mountains than it does in Atlanta. I'm hoping for temps close to zero at the upcoming New Year's hammock hang on Springer Mountain in Georgia, and then the winter hang at Mount Rogers in VA, if I can make it. I've done sub-zero in a tent, but it will be first time pushing that low in my hammock. Ought to be tons of fun.

I'm dying to move out of Atlanta and go somewhere that gets real winters again. I want to go somewhere so cold I'm using snowshows and a pulk sled to do my hiking. THAT would be some quality time in the outdoors...
 
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I hear ya man, some of the best camping/hunting I have done is up in Montana in -50 degree weather. There's nothing like coming out of our tent in the middle of the night to take a leak and worry that Mr. Johnson might freeze and break of in your hand.

That is one of the reasons I can't move from where I live. I have experienced Christmas south of the equator and it just isn't the same without snow.

Good to see there are other crazies like me that camp in the cold just because you can.:cool::thumbup:
 
One of the jobs I'm applying for is in the middle of nowhere in Montana... man would that be sweet, get some real cold for once. PA was a lot better than Georgia, but you really had to wait and wait for a good weekend to get REALLY cold, and sometimes you'd go entire winters without dropping into serious cold.

-50 is more insane than I've gone, but I'd love the challenge. Might have to leave the hammock at home for that one ;)
 
Man, if you pulled out a hammock in -50 I would bow and worship you for sure.

The only thing colder than that I have experienced is -70 one week in Idaho, but I wasn't camping in that. In fact the news said stay inside because people were going out to get their mail and dropping dead before they made it back inside. I am sure Skunk would have some good stories about that.
 
I've heard of guys taking hammocks to -25, which is pretty impressive. It takes a lot of gear to keep your butt warm hanging suspended in the air at those temperatures. And I do love me some gear...

One guy built a fireproof tarp / hut that could be pitched around his hammock, and heated it with a wood stove. I think he went even colder than -25 with that. Pretty impressive!

Low 20's is the coldest I've gotten hanging between trees in the foothills in Alabama, but I hope to fix that this year.
 
Seeing this makes me want to go camping. Thanks for sharing.:thumbup:
 
Looks like a lot of moisture in the air, but it looks like you all had a great time. Wish I could get out for some late season camping.:grumpy:
 
I guess i cant complain... i live in coastal cali and it didnt really drop below 50 degrees at night..but i brought my 2 year old daughter so this was kinda a trial run....but i brought a multitude of hats for ya'll
 
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