ab257 wrote:
We have a single slideout that we pull in for really cold weather with a roller awning to keep the snow off the top of the slideout . Having a lot of wet ski gear and clothing will make you appreciate the extra room. If you are boondocking at a ski resort without electric hook up, you will be relying on your propane furnace to keep you and your basement water tanks warm. Solar will keep your lights on, refrigerator and furnace fan running, maybe run your heated tanks. A generator will help for cloudy days, but not for long term boondocking. You should also get thermal windows.
Great tips, thanks! Thermal windows - meaning dual pane?
ab257 wrote:
But I think a Wave Catalytic heater is what you want if you want to stay really warm. With little fans to blow warm air into your basement so you don't have to run your furnace all day and night (have to keep it warm during the day so your pipes and tanks don't freeze). Search some conversations here about Wave heaters.
I've seen those mentioned, thanks for reminding me. Just need to modify a propane hookup for them, right?
ab257 wrote:
Long term cold weather campers have a larger external propane tank that they get a service to fill on site so they are not pulling out the 30 pound tanks every few days.
You mean, pay for a gas company to drive out to your RV and fill you up? Even in a parking lot?
ab257 wrote:
We keep our skis in a rocket box on top that we access from a 8 foot step ladder we also use to clean snow of the roof.
I wondered about this. I thought after a ski day, throwing them in a wetbath near the door could be OK. But maybe that's too much unnecessary moisture inside?
ab257 wrote:
If we stay at a campground near a ski resort we leave the pink antifreeze in the water lines and use the campground rest rooms and not worry about the Basement temperatures.
Aren't most recent TCs heating systems set up to heat the basement along with the rest of the cabin as is? I mean, if you're heating the inside, the basement is heated too, automatically. And if you're at a campground, presumably you have a hookup, so why NOT heat everything?
