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Choosing a Winter Campsite location

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Choosing your campground location for winter camping is very important. Of course you have the usual campground regulations and proximity to other campers but winter camping adds a greater challenge to your vacation. Avoid low laying areas as that is where the coldest air will settle. On the other hand, you also want to avoid high ridge tops where the winds may wreak havok with your tent and possibly create snow drifts. South facing areas will result in more sun and thus longer days - take what you can get! If streams or lakes are nearby, you will be spared from having to melt snow for all your water needs. Although it’s winter, level ground still makes for the most comfortable night sleeping. Lastly be cautious in choosing your site to avoid risk of avalanches. Just keep in mind this criteria next time you are planning your winter camping trip , and you’ll be starting out on the right foot. Sealing your tent Sealing the seams on your new tent is an absolute requirement in orde...
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Winter Camping at Night

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Using a bivouac sack (also known as a bivy sack) with your sleeping bag will increase your comfort while sleeping. Since you will lose much heat to the ground, it is very important to use a sleeping pad, perhaps even two. This will insulate you from the ground and keep you warm. If you have a mummy sleeping bag make sure you close it up so your eyes, mouth, and nose are exposed. Breathing into your sleeping bag, will wet it and decrease its ability to keep you warm. If you have another style of sleeping bag, sleep with a hat on. Don’t close up your tent completely. You may worry about losing heat however a closed tent will allow condensation to form on the tent walls. This will lead to possibly wet clothese, sleeping bag, and gear. Bottles of warm water are useful in a couple different contexts. By putting a warmed bottle in the bottom of your sleeping bag, it will help keep your feet warm while you are sleeping. Also, placing a warm water bottle in your boots w...
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Camping and Wildlife

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While living outdoors camping , you can not help but be surrounded by wildlife. Viewing birds, squirrels, deer, opossum, and other animals are a great blessing and can add to your fun. Of course there are certain things to do when camping to make the experience more enjoyable. Never approach wildlife. Wild animals can be strong and fast. They especially get agitated when defending themselves or when they feel their offspring are threatened. Cornering a wild animal will definately increase their feelings of vunerability so back away slowly. If you’ve got young children along, make sure you keep an eye on them and teach them to call for help if necessary. Sick or overly aggressive animals may be affected by rabies. If you’re in a campground, it’s a good idea to report these animals to a park ranger or someone else in charge. It’s also really important to never keep food in your tent. Throw away all waste product immediately and pack away any leftovers. Hanging it ...
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Winter Camping Food Tips

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 Winter Camping Food Tips - Part One First rule to remember is that while winter camping, you need to pack and eat a lot of food. It is estimated that your body requires at least 4,500 calories each day because of the extra energy needed to keep your body warm. Depending on your health, body metabolism, age, and sex over 5,000 calories may be burned. Paradoxically, your appetite may be less due to these same winter factors. You may need to encourage yourself and those in your care to eat. The best way to do that is to plan an appealing menu. So let’s talk about what to pack. You generally want to stay away from fresh food in the winter. Fresh foods such as fruit and vegetables contain water and will freeze. Dairy product such as cheese and butter are okay. For breakfast, keep it simple. It may be hard enough to get out of your sleeping bag and you’ll want to get warm quick. Instant oatmeal or granola in hot milk is an easy choice. Hot milk can be made easil...
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Top Rated Baby Beach Tents in 2016 – Great & Good

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The most effective beach add-ons that most take pleasure in could be the  baby beach tent , which may be taken on the vista involving fine sand for you to mark one’s own place during first minutes. B-tents from the latest time offer maximum functionality by providing optimum toughness although barely analyzing something more. In a few in the situations these types of distinctly featured tents can also be known because beach huts. The designers of the tents discovered the potential for presenting unique beach ideologies inside marketplaces in a really early stage and obtained from these details too. One can possibly currently discover banana formed or wings designed tents at the same time, to savor that will beach holiday, whilst being in the middle of your almost multi-colored homes. The types of materials useful for the creation of the particular baby beach tent change from bamboo to be able to fiber wine glass etc. Frequently the particular tents are accessorized by simply...
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Baby Beach Tents Reviews: Schylling Infant UV Play Shade Review

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We’ve talked about an affordable baby beach tents, but if you can spend a little bit more, we would definitely recommend you to get the Schylling Infant UV Play Shade. This whole website is dedicated to helping mothers and fathers get the best baby beach tents for their children. We even have tips on how to buy the best baby beach tents money can buy and many more. The first big obvious advantage of the baby beach tents is that you’ll get full UV protection (as far as tents can go at least). The other advantage is that this tent can be used not only for babies but also infants, since it’s a bigger model. This comes at a big advantage because the model you’ll be buying with be good not only for your baby but also for your infant. Baby Beach Tent – Some General Specifications This of all, this  baby beach tent  provides the best UV protection available in the market with a very complete 50+ UPF. This will protect your baby/infant from the sun, so that...
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Baby Beach Tent Reviews – Pacific Play Review

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In our quest to give you the best advice about baby beach tents, we write reviews that may enable you make better buying decisions. The main reasons why we write baby beach tent reviews is to enable you compare features on individual baby beach tents. Our previous baby beach tent review was the  Schylling Infant UV Play Shade Review .  Today, we have decided to write a Pacific Play baby beach tent review. For a more affordable choice, the Pacific Play is a great model. As you may know, using a good  baby beach tent  is a must if you’re looking to go to the beach with your baby. Since their defenses are still a bit low, it’s very important that you make sure they’re protected in that environment. This choice follows our guidelines on choosing a great baby beach tent and still found a quite affordable model at less than $25.  HOWEVER , this model does not feature the highest UV protection available, which is recommended when you’re talking about babies. B...
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