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Beginner's Guide to Winter Camping: A Seven Part Series
Rocky Mountain Editor and survival blogger Steve Howe gets you out of the house on your first winter camping trip with this seven-part how-to guide.
High Camp, 17,200 feet, Denali, Alaska. pic: howephoto.us
Part I: Get Outside! You Are Not a Groundhog!
Part II Gearing Up for Your First Winter Overnighter
Part III: Planning Your First Winter Camp-Out
Part IV: Taking Your First Winter Overnighter
Part II Gearing Up for Your First Winter Overnighter
Part III: Planning Your First Winter Camp-Out
Part IV: Taking Your First Winter Overnighter
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just in the pic above there is over $1500 in tents and $1500 in packs and climbing gear!
hahaha nice RICH hardcore winter camping!
Come to Northen Michigan and go camping with us and our fishing poles and bivy sacks... total value $99 + the cost of bait! hahaha
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Posted: Mar 01, 2010 Really Hardcore
Thanks for putting these articles out ... it came this week and this weekend is my first winter campout / mountaineering campout. Should be a lot of fun with new snow expected. Donner Summit here we come! Sierra Mountaineering Group!!!
Posted: Feb 18, 2010 Tom
Thanks for this series. I enjoyed snow camping as a youth and now live in MS. We don't get much snow here but some of the cold weather info is useful here too. Keep the info coming!!!
Posted: Feb 16, 2010 Ken
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