Winter camping tips

Below zero

Camp  |   Cooking  |   Utensils  |   Tent  |   Breakfast  |   Wet Gloves

Flick over to MJ for some more text and pictures of the trip. Here are just a few nuggets of information from the trip:

• Putting on and off snow chains is best done with no gloves on, better to have cold hands for five minutes than wet gloves for the rest of the trip
• You cannot stop condensation in a tent, you just have to live with it
• Chocolate milk shake powder doesn't make hot chocolate
• Don't believe cooking times on packets
• Snow tires are a good idea, as is decent antifreeze
• Sometimes if you can't understand somebody it might be because they are speaking a different language to the one you were expecting
• New crampons do not improve your foot work.

Cheers, Nick [Dec 2005]

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Alpkit are just a bunch of monkeys shut in a warehouse. The days are long at Alpkit GHQ, we pack orders, chase couriers, balance our books and eat doughnuts. Most of our time is spent doing normal stuff, you know.. the daily grind but we try our best to give you guys a good experience when you come to visit.