Winter RVing in the Rockies?
I stumbled onto the Canadream site and found that they rent winterized Class C motorhomes for winter camping. It never crossed my mind that this was possible, but I guess it is! (There is no way I w...
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If you are looking to spend time in major ski and winter sport locations, your choice of campgrounds will be more limited without reservations but there is always walmarts. Allstays was pretty accurate for opening times.
As for clothing - we spent a lot of time in Iceland early winter last year outside looking at the Northern Lights and picked places to stay the night well away from town lights and just wore very basic mild-winter street wear and layered as much as was necessary. When the show is really on, and the whole sky is alight, you could be naked and not notice the cold. At least having a motorhome right there, once you have enough photos, you can sit inside and look out the windows. Be really lazy and just leave the camera outside clicking away every couple of minutes. Show is generally over before midnight anyway.
Our motorhome is double-floored and all water systems are in the heated living quarters so fairly easy to manage. Grey tank is outside though so had to be left open if it got too cold.
There are a couple of apps we used for predictions and while they are not 100%, you soon get to know the forecast indicators that are likely to give a good display.
As for clothing - we spent a lot of time in Iceland early winter last year outside looking at the Northern Lights and picked places to stay the night well away from town lights and just wore very basic mild-winter street wear and layered as much as was necessary. When the show is really on, and the whole sky is alight, you could be naked and not notice the cold. At least having a motorhome right there, once you have enough photos, you can sit inside and look out the windows. Be really lazy and just leave the camera outside clicking away every couple of minutes. Show is generally over before midnight anyway.
Our motorhome is double-floored and all water systems are in the heated living quarters so fairly easy to manage. Grey tank is outside though so had to be left open if it got too cold.
There are a couple of apps we used for predictions and while they are not 100%, you soon get to know the forecast indicators that are likely to give a good display.
