can you winter camp in a pop up?
So this is my first camper, and I was just curious can you winter camp in a pop up, or do you risk cracking the vinyl tent, when opening and closing? thanks Ken
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You can do it; I made many winter hunting trips in an older Coleman PU in frigid and sometimes sub-zero weather. I can tell you from experience, though, a properly set up wall tent with a catalytic heater will be much warmer than a PU, air can’t get under a tent. You could use the heater in a PU too, but like a tent, you need air circulation and I wouldn’t run it overnight. If you run the furnace in the PU you need some means of recharging your battery, it can knock the battery down in one night.
I didn’t use a heater and everything froze, food, water, drains, and sometimes the propane stove wouldn’t light. I survived with a bulletproof old Coleman gas stove and lantern. That was my heat in the morning and evening when I cooked breakfast and dinner. The rest of the day I was tramping the hills and wasn’t in camp. I depended on old real down sleeping bags and jackets, not the modern junk mixed with feathers, if I wasn’t running the stove. So if you can take the cold well and have good winter gear, you can do it. I can’t speak to vinyl, mime was canvas. But it had plastic windows and before I dropped the top I’d heat the PU up so I didn’t crack the windows when I closed it up.
I didn’t use a heater and everything froze, food, water, drains, and sometimes the propane stove wouldn’t light. I survived with a bulletproof old Coleman gas stove and lantern. That was my heat in the morning and evening when I cooked breakfast and dinner. The rest of the day I was tramping the hills and wasn’t in camp. I depended on old real down sleeping bags and jackets, not the modern junk mixed with feathers, if I wasn’t running the stove. So if you can take the cold well and have good winter gear, you can do it. I can’t speak to vinyl, mime was canvas. But it had plastic windows and before I dropped the top I’d heat the PU up so I didn’t crack the windows when I closed it up.
