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Here are some winter camping pics from the last few days I thought might interest you all.
I got in late as the road was closed in one place for a while. So it was dark and I didn’t want to go far…I just set up camp at the old forest service campsite.
I quickly threw this tarp setup together on my ski poles and fired up the stove. It was a little chilly out there, but not too bad…maybe -10 c? Still, I wanted to eat some hot food.
It was actually dark when I took this, I just didn’t use a flash and used about a 20 second exposure. The door of the stove was open so the tarp’s lit from the inside a bit.
Here’s another view from the other end:
And here’s one featuring the Pickard…might help for scale I thought. I am 11 inches tall so this is a very small camp.
A little later I had the stew going. I sliced up a potato, two carrots, a small red onion and a pound of beef, and put it in water.
I don’t actually know how to cook so this was a bit of a question mark for me. But it turned out well.
The next day I did some skiing with my new Gladerunner pack, reviewed elsewhere.
I tool a lighter setup with me, just enough for a good comfortable overnight. Later in the day I took the avalanche shovel and built up this shelter, again using the tarp:
The snow was a strange consistency that I don’t normally encounter, almost like there was eight inches of tiny hail pellets on the ground with a thin crust on top. Not like powder, not like corn, not like mashed potatoes. Just odd and hard to build with. I would not have trusted any quinzee made of this snow, for instance. You can also see the river I camped beside...used a lot of water from there. Had to chuck my pot in on a length of cord to fill it as the banks were huge snow drifts that had repeatedly frozen and I didn't want to stand too close. Would have been hard to get out!
The next day I gave one of the walls a whack with the shovel and it fell apart like nothing…so it never took on that “shovelled snow” sold structure you normally get. Strange stuff! I guess the crystalline structure had already collapsed from repeated heating/cooling cycles or something.
Here’s the view inside:
And crouching at the foot of the bed:
Stew again!
I got in late as the road was closed in one place for a while. So it was dark and I didn’t want to go far…I just set up camp at the old forest service campsite.
I quickly threw this tarp setup together on my ski poles and fired up the stove. It was a little chilly out there, but not too bad…maybe -10 c? Still, I wanted to eat some hot food.
It was actually dark when I took this, I just didn’t use a flash and used about a 20 second exposure. The door of the stove was open so the tarp’s lit from the inside a bit.
Here’s another view from the other end:
And here’s one featuring the Pickard…might help for scale I thought. I am 11 inches tall so this is a very small camp.
A little later I had the stew going. I sliced up a potato, two carrots, a small red onion and a pound of beef, and put it in water.
I don’t actually know how to cook so this was a bit of a question mark for me. But it turned out well.
The next day I did some skiing with my new Gladerunner pack, reviewed elsewhere.
I tool a lighter setup with me, just enough for a good comfortable overnight. Later in the day I took the avalanche shovel and built up this shelter, again using the tarp:
The snow was a strange consistency that I don’t normally encounter, almost like there was eight inches of tiny hail pellets on the ground with a thin crust on top. Not like powder, not like corn, not like mashed potatoes. Just odd and hard to build with. I would not have trusted any quinzee made of this snow, for instance. You can also see the river I camped beside...used a lot of water from there. Had to chuck my pot in on a length of cord to fill it as the banks were huge snow drifts that had repeatedly frozen and I didn't want to stand too close. Would have been hard to get out!
The next day I gave one of the walls a whack with the shovel and it fell apart like nothing…so it never took on that “shovelled snow” sold structure you normally get. Strange stuff! I guess the crystalline structure had already collapsed from repeated heating/cooling cycles or something.
Here’s the view inside:
And crouching at the foot of the bed:
Stew again!
