How to stay warm with out electricity?
I check the long term weather forecast for our mid-April trip. The first stop at Great Sand Dunes NP in CO is in southern CO but at an elevation of about 8,000 feet. We can expect low temp at night ...
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Regarding the post about clean dry clothes when sleeping in the cold. It doesn’t surprise me that people don’t think of this. I learned that back in Boy Scouts from a buddy’s dad who was In the army. It stuck with me and if notfor that fellow I don’t know where I’d have learned it back then.
Other parts of this thread are out of hand. There’s no explaining to some folks....or maybe we’re just weird. Yes, we use heat sometimes in the camper at night, but also been known to just shut the heat off at night in freezing temps (not super cold temps) and just turn it back on in the am. The weird part is it feels nice to wake up in a freezing cold camper, throw some coffee on, run the furnace for a bit to take the chill off. Maybe it’s because I still enjoy camping.....
The other part is it depends what you’re aclimated to and your metabolism. When I was working on the Slope in the winter, I’d come home to 40-50deg weather and it was shorts and tee shirts. If it was above like 10deg onthe job and the sun was up, it was hoody’s and jeans, leave the arctic gear in the truck. But when we lived in Phoenix, going to the mountains snowmobiling had me bundling up like I was in the Arctic.
Other parts of this thread are out of hand. There’s no explaining to some folks....or maybe we’re just weird. Yes, we use heat sometimes in the camper at night, but also been known to just shut the heat off at night in freezing temps (not super cold temps) and just turn it back on in the am. The weird part is it feels nice to wake up in a freezing cold camper, throw some coffee on, run the furnace for a bit to take the chill off. Maybe it’s because I still enjoy camping.....
The other part is it depends what you’re aclimated to and your metabolism. When I was working on the Slope in the winter, I’d come home to 40-50deg weather and it was shorts and tee shirts. If it was above like 10deg onthe job and the sun was up, it was hoody’s and jeans, leave the arctic gear in the truck. But when we lived in Phoenix, going to the mountains snowmobiling had me bundling up like I was in the Arctic.
