Check out our guide on how to keep food from freezing in the winter. We ate frozen tomatoes, eggs, chocolate, and all sorts of other things. Your food will freeze if it’s not insulated properly. You also shouldn’t eat snow-it can be contaminated with animal urine, feces, and other nasty things (even if it looks white and clean).
As soon as you pack it down in your pot and get it melting on the stove or fire, it’s shrunk to about one-tenth in liquid form. Snow doesn’t work well as a water source. This is why it’s important to stay hydrated in cold weather-even if you’re not thirsty. Keep in mind that the cold air is very dry, which means that with every breath you take, you’re losing a lot of moisture. Once we were at camp, we had to cut a hole in the frozen lake with an ice auger, scoop out water with our pot, and boil it before we could drink it. The water in our Nalgene bottles frozen in under an hour since they were exposed to the cold air and wind. Here are a few of the things that caught us by surprise:ĭehydration is real. Although we’d spent months researching, acquiring gear, and carefully planning our first trip, we still weren’t fully prepared for what camping in these temperatures would actually be like. We’d camped in 30☏ (-1☌) temperatures before, but -31☏ (-35☌) was a whole new level of frozen. Here in Ontario, Canada, the mercury drops well below 10☏ in the dead of winter-especially up north, which is where we like to camp. We’ve gone camping in -31☏ (-35☌) and it’s not what you might expect And ideally, you need to work your way down the thermometer readings by first camping in 60, 50, 40, 30, and 20☏ weather rather than jumping straight into some of the coldest temperatures your region gets on a yearly basis. You need to talk to other camping enthusiasts who’ve gone winter camping. Even if you have the right stuff, camping in these temperatures can be dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing. Second in importance to gear is your level of knowledge and experience with camping in the extreme cold. Now, if you’ve bought (or are able to rent or borrow) everything you need to go camping in 10☏- which includes a hot tent or a four-season tent and a winter sleeping bag at the very least-then camping is totally doable. In this case, yes, 10☏ is just too cold to go camping. You simply shouldn’t camp in these temperatures with three-season gear. The answer to this question depends mostly on your ability access the right gear.Įxtreme cold camping requires very specialized gear-much more so than the typical summer or three-season gear that most of us already have. For most people, the answer is probably yes-10☏ (-12☌) is too cold for them to go camping.
You can go camping in extreme cold weather, but you better prepare yourself.How do you stay warm when camping in the extreme cold?.
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