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in: Homemade Gear
by: Moondog55
on: Sep 4, 3:20am
How much white gas fuel?
in: Winter Camping Gear
by: Moondog55
on: Sep 2, 11:56pm
In need of a new white gas stove
in: Winter Camping Gear
by: Moondog55
on: Sep 2, 11:46pm
12th Annual Winter Camping Symposium
in: General Winter Camping Discussion
by: Bridgit Maruska
on: Sep 2, 4:53pm
Any advice on how to deal with iced-up mukluks?
in: Winter Camping Clothing
by: Moondog55
on: Sep 2, 2:12pm
Securing sections of stove pipe?
in: Winter Camping Safety
by: redneckdan
on: Sep 2, 10:47am
Just stopping by to say hello
in: General Winter Camping Discussion
by: canoecountry
on: Sep 2, 10:44am
stove pipe thermometer
in: Winter Camping Gear
by: mjh
on: Sep 2, 10:21am
First post in Sept 2010
in: General Winter Camping Discussion
by: redneckdan
on: Sep 2, 9:46am
Henry Held (Henry's Shoe Repair) - We lost a craftsman
in: Winter Camping Clothing
by: lynx
on: Aug 29, 9:07pm
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Welcome to WinterTrekking.com
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Equipment Feature:
Sleds & Toboggans Traditional winter camping is not ultralight camping. Carrying everything on your back for a cold camping trip is next to impossible on a deep snow trip on snowshoes, since you will wallow, and sweat and get soaked. For a hot tent trip it is of course impossible to carry all gear on your bac...
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Snowshoeing Feature:
Traditional Snowshoe Designs Sometimes, the Ancients design the perfect piece of gear that cannot be improved upon. Traditional snowshoes are an exquisite functional thing of beauty, and they are NOT old fashioned. They are still by far the best choice for many snow conditions and trekking styles. They are light, provide ex...
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Safety Feature:
Cutting Tools In our Equipment section we described the use of axes, saws, ice chisels and augers, in a corresponding subsection.
Axes:
Safety using an axe requires proper training and practice. If you are now an adult and never had the good fortune to be trained with an axe as a child, like man...
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Clothing Feature:
Hand Wear There are many warm synthetic shelled gloves and mitts on the market, but none of these works around the fire when you have to reach in and pull a pot out, or lift the hot stove door to adjust the fire, or reach into the woodstove to adjust blocks and add new ones. Synthetics will melt. No sy...
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Backcountry Skiing Feature:
Boots & Bindings OK, no matter what you have read in ski magazines, or heard at the ski shop, the 3 pin 75mm Nordic Norm boot and binding system is not old fashioned or dead. In fact it's the leading back country touring ski boot-binding system. Mountain folks have always known this, but for most of the popula...
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