Snow/Winter Gear Packing Checklist

5 Shirts/Jackets and 4 pairs of pants? Please. explain

5 Shirts/Jackets and 4 pairs of pants? Please. explain

Here's a great interactive gear checklist and pack-weight calculator app that can be a valuable tool... or just fun:

http://www.weighmygear.com

plus you can throw it under your bag if your feet are freezing...

Pee bottle... Gatorade will be on the menu for the first day. lol

So how do women use a pee bottle? LOL

You don't need a piss bottle. Back off your water intake a couple of hours before bed and keep an insulated water bladder or bottle within reach. Just drink if you wake up thirsty. You could keep a water bottle in your bag but I wouldn't recommend the bladder in there.

Yes I do use a pee bottle and yes to the wide mouth gatorade bottle ,and it nice too. if you bunking with 3-4 persons you dont have to wake them in the middle of the night to do your duty.
most time thay dont even know that you are peeing in it,added to that extra warmth too.and i can monitor my intake so i dont get dehydrated too.,yes again
leave no trace is what I practice .and to to run yourself dehydrated before sleep is not good , you need the fuel for your body to stay warm.when its cold out, plus you will loss body heat by getting up and out , if all you have to do is pee , you will loss body core heat to get up and out ,and it will take more body core heat to get warmed up again.when you try to go back to sleep ,I know I sleep better if I am warm.when you only sleep 4-5 hrs I try to get the most of it. in the cold weather camping .

I see all sides of the pee bottle saga. But... if you use a wide mouth gatorade bottle you cant miss. Plus when its dark (and cold), its sooo much nicer to stay warm and pee then get cold. Plus I can fall asleep faster staying warm. By the way, I've used my gatorade portable pottie hundreds of times and never spilled a drop!

Why do you need both a closed cell foam pad and an inflatable sleeping pad? I thought that you use only the closed cell pad when sleeping on snow?????

Are the ratings on sleeping bags a range? So, if you get a -30 degree bag, is that going to be good for that range of tempatures up to 0 degrees. Or, does it mean that any bags with a rating in that -30 to 0 should be adaquate? Because there are so many bag ratings: -30,-15,-10, 0.

piss bottles are good for one thing and one thing only making a mess;if you try and piss into the bottle while still in your bag and miss...eww. Just get up and go. as for leave no trace, it's piss, humans have been pissin on the ground for a few hundred thousand years.

Forget the pee bottle. Load up on the water earlier in the day and back off a couple of hours before bed. Bring down booties and learn how to run to the pisser and return when it is below zero. The first couple of minutes back inside the sleeping bag will be a bit chilly.

so you dont have get out of your tent when its freezing out.

To drink! It's all about survival!

What's the purpose of a pee bottle, heat or leave no trace maybe?

try copying the txt and pasting in whatever text program you have. I did this with Text Edit and it worked fine.

Love your new web page. FYI the last 7 items did not print out for me, Don't know if this is due to my printer or your end.