It Is The Time Of The Time Of Year For Camping Out So Be Well Prepared
Although its most certainly not always the time of the season for loving, you can rest assured that it is always the time of the season for camping. High quality 4 season tents ensure that one can always go camping no matter what the weather is saying. Some people like to camp in the warm weather when there is no fear of hypothermia or frost bite. However, there are drawbacks to only camping out in the summer weather.
For starters, summer camping is full of disease carrying bugs. While you might not get frost bite in the summer, you might get Lyme disease, West Nile, or Malaria. In addition to this, you have to worry about poisonous plants. Trust me, you can’t enjoy your vacation when your body is riddled with the effects of Poison Ivy or Poison Oak, and don’t even get me started on allergies. On top of all this, you also have to worry about dangerous animals. In the winter, bears will crawl into a hole or a cave and go to sleep. You can walk through an entire forest in the winter months without ever coming across a bear. However, these same bears are out foraging for food all spring, fall, and summer. Cross a bear that has kids and you’ll wish you never went camping at all.
Most people will recognize that winter weather camping is much different than summer weather camping. Plants and bugs are not a part of the winter camping experience. The only plants still living in the winter are dormant or are waiting for you to cut them down for Christmas. You’ll also notice that bugs just aren’t around when its cold out. Have you ever had to do a tick check after a nice wintertime sledding event?
Of course the cold months do have their drawbacks as well. For starters, you have to worry about freezing to death. However, this can easily be accommodated for. All you will need to beat the cold is a good selection of 4 season tents, a warm sleeping bag, and appropriate clothing.
Most folks will have to consume more food when winter camping. People burn many more calories when they are trying to stay warm versus trying to cool down. This being said, most of us eat too much anyway, so the extra calories burned will be a welcome addition to the trip.
Locating clean drinking water can also be tough during the winter months. Water is the most important item to think about when camping. While you might not think so, water is just as important in the winter as it is in the summer. Taking care of this issue just requires some extra thought. Obviously you won’t be able to quickly and easily get drinking water from a frozen lake.
Some tips to get around this is to bring pots to boil snow or to take some sort of ice pick with you. Attack the ice with your pick and make it yield the clean drinking water over to you.