12 nights a year

[Caminante]

Take 2, month 6.

Slept out both nights this weekend Friday night was nothing but sleet and freezing rain as evidenced by the icicles on my tarp (they are heavy). I had knocked most of the white stuff off of the panels at this point. I believe the low was ~27F. Saturday afternoon the skies cleared up and last night was clear and cold, down to 12-14F depending on who you ask (no thermometer with me). I used my 20F down UQ + 30F CS UQ (5 oz CS) and that worked great. My 20F down TQ was getting maxed out even with me wearing a fleece shirt and REI Revelcloud jacket + fleece pants. Still, I slept great.

[massis]

As planned I got out for a night in the local woods last friday. Temperatures dropped to below 25°F with windchill somewhere around 10-15°F.
My setup went smoothly, had a comfortable dinner in my chinese Helinox clone chair. Buffalo Special 6 shirt & Fjallraven Barents Pro winter pants kept me nice and warm.

Most of my body was nice and toasty throughout the night, except for my feet. Somehow I just couldn't get my feet warm, while I'm the kind of guy that takes of his shoes & socks first thing after work, to run around barefoot.
Eventually I think I figured it out: my footend was too low, which caused my entire body to slide towards the footend, so my feet were sticking out beyond the Wooki (0°F) UQ. Next time the footend is going up even more!





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[cneill13]

I got out this past weekend for a Season 2, Week 5 hang in the North Georgia mountains.

It was a high of 26 on Saturday, pretty cold for Georgia. I lived in Chicago for 17 years and saw some wicked winters but could never seem to get "used" to the cold.

It was a beautiful sunny day. The streets were a mess with the snow and ice so I took it easy getting to the campground.

Crossing a bridge, we came to our camping area. Car camping at its best.

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We had the place all to ourselves as I expected.

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I set up my hammock by this picture-perfect mountain stream.

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I wanted to take a picture of my hammock without the tarp in place but the wind kept blowing snow out of the trees into my hammock.

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We took a short hike before dinner on a trail by the stream.

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We made it back to camp right before dark to get the fire rolling.

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Then we put the pot on the fire. Lodge cast iron-fired chicken tortilla soup.

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It got down to 14 degrees overnight but I was toasty warm.

Gear: HG Burrow 20 degree OQ with two extra ounces of down in the foot box.

Woobie blanket (poncho liner quilt) put inside my Burrow. Made a huge difference.

JRB Nest QU. I then layered a Costco quilt on top of the UQ. It was good for another 10 degrees of warmth.

UGQ Winter Dream 12' tarp

2QZQ UQP - I really like this addition

Another awesome night in the woods.

Carl

[johnspenn]

I got out this past weekend for a Season 2, Week 5 hang in the North Georgia mountains.

It was a high of 26 on Saturday, pretty cold for Georgia. I lived in Chicago for 17 years and saw some wicked winters but never seem to get "used" to the cold.

It was a beautiful sunny day. The streets were a mess with the snow and ice so I took it easy getting to the campground.

Crossing a bridge, we came to our camping area. Car camping at its best.

WC-bridge.JPG

We had the place all to ourselves as I expected.

WC-woods.JPG

I set up my hammock by this picture-perfect mountain stream.

WC-Stream.JPG

I wanted to take a picture of my hammock without the tarp in place but the wind kept blowing snow out of the trees into my hammock.

WC-hammock.JPG

We took a short hike before dinner on a trail by the stream.

WC-hike1.JPG

WC-hike2.jpg

We made it back to camp right before dark to get the fire rolling.

WC-fire.JPG

Then we put the pot on the fire. Lodge cast iron-fired chicken enchilada soup.

WC-fire2.JPG

It got down to 14 degree overnight but I was toasty warm.

Gear: HG Burrow 20 degree OQ with two extra ounces of down in the foot box.

Woobie blanket (poncho liner quilt) put inside my Burrow. Made a huge difference.

JRB Nest QU. I then layered a Costco quilt on top of the UQ. It was good for another 10 degrees of warmth.

UGQ Winter Dream 12' tarp

2QZQ UQP - I really like this addition

Another awesome night in the woods.

Carl

Looks like a great campout Carl! Where did y'all go?

[cneill13]

Looks like a great campout Carl! Where did y'all go?

The place I emailed you about. One of my favorite car camping spots.

[P-Dub]

I have NEVER wanted to go winter camping until I started looking into hammocks....

Now it seems completely do-able!

[Bayou Russ]

While all y'all are in snow we're in fog. Mid-60's last night and pea soup along the south end of our pasture.


Had the cur dogs along and one wants to get into hammocking, he may get this ENO after I get a Hennessy or warbonnet with bug netting, skeeters were hot all night



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[michigandave]

Another month down after a 3 day winter trip in northern Michigan. Right now I'm batting 100%! We had lots of snow so the pulk was required. 2 nights of hanging with lows down to 0 and a great hang spot overlooking an ice covered lake.

[Nobby8126]

2 of 2. Another birisk night reaching -3C. Took along a mate so as you can see a lot more kit was taken mainly the 4 sleeping bags he used.

Top night talked politics and addressed the state of society (a few beverages may have been involved) then ate steak while the cowboy kettle done its thing. Top night image.jpgimage.jpgimage.jpgimage.jpg

Really need a better camera for low light.

[Karla "with a k"]

Last night made my 13th month in a row - camping at least one night a month. Thankful for a Wisconsin January thaw!