lows below freezing, bad idea to camp?
Hi folks. We have a camp trip to NV Beach which this weekend Friday-Monday which I planned months ago. NV Beach is near S. Lake Tahoe(6300 ft elev)and is a dry camp site. Well winter came early th...
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MNtundraRet wrote:
We just winterized this last weekend. It happened to be 75F the day we did it. But with weather getting "iffy" at this time of year in Minnesota better to be safe than sorry.
We will continue to camp until the middle of October. Most parks here turn off water and close dump-stations by then. Last year we had snow right after the first weekend in October. The water-spigots were frozen closed.
We bring water from home and just operate without running water. No problem camping that way, and using two electric-heaters is cheaper than wasting propane on the furnace to try and keep tanks and pipes from freezing. The MH is also used in the spring this way until weather warms up enough to be stored with water un-winterized.
Not me. But then again I am in southern MN. The balmy area of the state.lol I don't winterize until it gets below freezing for several hours a night.
