Winter camping
We are camping in the alpine forest soon. The low is forecast to be 19F overnight. Are there any tricks to keep the water pump from freezing? I was thinking put a candle in the basement storage com...
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Cousin_Eddy wrote:
Question: at 4 am, pitch black, someone starts shooting. About 1 shot per second. 28F degrees out. They were maybe 1 mile away. WTF? They were shooting for like 20 min. Thanksgiving morning. What up with that? How can you see your target? Maybe hunters? Drunks? I dont know.
Were there a bunch of trees around? In some trees (particularly poplars, I think) in cold weather, the sap can freeze and cause sticks or branches to break suddenly, making popping noises. More common in colder weather than 28F, though....
I don't think it's legal to hunt during the night in most states; certainly none that I've ever heard of. A hunter would not be firing shot after shot after shot, either.
