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Baffin island cold camping....12 days in April 2009
in: Trip Reports
by: Umiujaq
on: Jun 29, 10:11am
my favourite book
in: Books, DVD's & Magazines
by: Happy Camper
on: Jun 27, 7:44pm
Opinions on canvas tent features
in: General Winter Camping Discussion
by: chimpac
on: Jun 26, 7:01am
Fish pics
in: Winter Trekking Ice Fishing
by: steven
on: Jun 26, 5:50am
Type of snowshoes
in: Snowshoeing Discussion
by: steven
on: Jun 26, 5:44am
Winter fashion trend
in: General Winter Camping Discussion
by: steven
on: Jun 26, 5:33am
Where to go?
in: Back Country Skiing Discussion
by: steven
on: Jun 26, 5:25am
Tarp Shelters
in: Homemade Gear
by: chimpac
on: Jun 25, 11:38pm
Banter Boys Hot Tent - a peek inside
in: Winter Camping Photos
by: Georgi
on: Jun 17, 9:21pm
Spanish River - Winter 2009
in: Winter Camping Photos
by: Scott
on: Jun 16, 6:44am
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Welcome to WinterTrekking.com
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Equipment Feature:
Sleds & Toboggans Traditional winter camping is not ultralight camping. Carrying everything on your back for a cold camping trip is next to impossible on a deep snow trip on snowshoes, since you will wallow, and sweat and get soaked. For a hot tent trip it is of course impossible to carry all gear on your bac...
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Snowshoeing Feature:
Traditional Snowshoe Designs Sometimes, the Ancients design the perfect piece of gear that cannot be improved upon. Traditional snowshoes are an exquisite functional thing of beauty, and they are NOT old fashioned. They are still by far the best choice for many snow conditions and trekking styles. They are light, provide ex...
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Safety Feature:
Cutting Tools In our Equipment section we described the use of axes, saws, ice chisels and augers, in a corresponding subsection.
Axes:
Safety using an axe requires proper training and practice. If you are now an adult and never had the good fortune to be trained with an axe as a child, like man...
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Clothing Feature:
Hand Wear There are many warm synthetic shelled gloves and mitts on the market, but none of these works around the fire when you have to reach in and pull a pot out, or lift the hot stove door to adjust the fire, or reach into the woodstove to adjust blocks and add new ones. Synthetics will melt. No sy...
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Backcountry Skiing Feature:
Boots & Bindings OK, no matter what you have read in ski magazines, or heard at the ski shop, the 3 pin 75mm Nordic Norm boot and binding system is not old fashioned or dead. In fact it's the leading back country touring ski boot-binding system. Mountain folks have always known this, but for most of the popula...
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