Winter Hammock Camping

**TheFirePitGuy** · 01-27-2015, 17:32

Originally Posted by Shug

No heat)))))))
Shug

-40F are you kidding me!!! That's hard core...big time...impossible to comprehend...don't know what more to say about that.
I bow to your greatness Sir Duke of Downyness

**Greybear077** · 02-02-2015, 16:14

Thanks for all the great comments.You all have convinced me to work towards getting winter gear, it might take a while but now I know what I'm working towards. Thanks everyone. By the by, I don't think I will get to the crazy of -40. Zero will be good enough for me.

**JCinPA** · 02-02-2015, 21:52

Nope, I'm out. Three season for sure. I was considering this again until this morning when I woke up to this in Chicago.

By the time I got to this I decided you guys are all bat-guano crazy. Who'd want to camp in this??

Looking forward to the MAHHA! That will be the start of my seasons. Probably done by Thanksgiving.

**cougarmeat** · 02-02-2015, 22:06

Here is a record of my planned kayak/hammock camping trip in the Seattle area one April.

SmallJeepInSeattle.jpg

**bkrgi** · 02-02-2015, 22:10

Originally Posted by JCinPA

By the time I got to this I decided you guys are all bat-guano crazy. Who'd want to camp in this??

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Crazy you say..... geesh I am headed out tonight to hang in the snow and cold

**snidetripod** · 02-02-2015, 23:27

Nuff said?

**MAD777** · 02-03-2015, 06:26

-40! Shug & strungout, I cannot imagine how that felt, but it sure looked beautiful out there from the warmth of my couch! And, I want to have strungout with me when I need a fire! I don't even understand how wood can burn at -40 degrees!

**cjayflo** · 02-05-2015, 10:03

I will add that winter camping can mean a lot of different things depending on your area. I "winter" camped this weekend here in Tn. Last late summer I "Tennessee winter camped" in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Its all relative.
Camping in deep snow is a separate animal from the rest of the year.

**OneClick** · 02-05-2015, 11:08

Originally Posted by cjayflo

I will add that winter camping can mean a lot of different things depending on your area. I "winter" camped this weekend here in Tn. Last late summer I "Tennessee winter camped" in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Its all relative.
Camping in deep snow is a separate animal from the rest of the year.

So true. Winter to me is only two things really:

1. White
2. Cold, as in 20s for a high at best

My last trip was a letdown with wet melting snow. So I'm giving it another go this weekend. 8"+ on the ground and 4-8" on the way while I'm in the piney woods!

**GoatHanger** · 02-05-2015, 17:49

I'm doing a little out and back on the AT the 20-22nd. I really hope it's cold. Farmers almanac says snow flurries that weekend for the northeast. Not really cold enough for a 0° TQ, but it'll be the first "real" chance to use it so I'm taking it anyway.

I envy those of you that live where you regularly see zero and below. I have to travel for that. It rarely gets to zero in my immediate area.