How 4-season are 4 seasons Lances?
Ok, so lots of questions. First off, let me introduce myself. I've got 3 kids who will all be off to college in the next 5 years or so. My wife and I have always loved traveling and we are avid s...
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JimK-NY wrote:
This whole idea sounds like a nightmare to me. I have to ask, why?
I would not want to take a trip with 2 adults and 3 teenagers jammed into a small RV even in the Summer. In Winter with temps down to the teens, that is likely to be a miserable experience. You have already heard about some of the issues; e.g, trying to heat the RV, moisture and condensation issues, RVs that are really not well insulated or designed for that sort of use. At the end of a ski day, where are you planning on putting all of that wet gear, skies, boots, clothing?
If you do attempt this insanity, I highly recommend you stay at a campground with hookups. At least you will have electricity to run the furnace and you can even substitute space heaters instead of the furnace. Regardless of the insulation, you are going to need plenty of heat so that you can bring in lots of outside air to try to fight the humidity problem.
Again, why even consider this? The cost for a handful of trips a year is going to be much higher than overnight stays in hotels/motels or even nice resorts.
The only way it can be done is with supplemental heating. IE, Hooked to electricity. On my 1181 it has a large pull out drawer which I removed for cold camping. I put one of those small cube heaters pointing straight in and nothing froze. the floor was even warmish. A small fan was clipped to the bathroom door for warm air to the cab over. A Vortec electric heater was then used as the main heat for the TC unit. It never shut off. The propane heat was really only used at night but it ran every minute with the exception of about 10 / 20 seconds when it would get to temp. 2 30LB tanks lasted 4 days doing it this way with above modifications. The first trip the propane was gone 1.5 days.
One more point is that I never went to a campground that far north over that cold of a season, there are none open as far as I know. We would camp in dads driveway over Christmas in Rome NY and it was bitterly cold. The snowbelt in NY is about as cold as it gets south of Canada. It can be done but it's a ton of work but it wasn't all those years ago...
