Winter Overnight Tips

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Winter Overnight Tips

• Use daylight efficiently
• Keep a clean camp
• Rehydrate and eat for warmth
• Stay warm and dry
• Enjoy the long night

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Use Daylight Efficiently

• Put on headlamps before dark
• Do your business while you can still see
• Make camp before nightfall
• much easier to pitch tents prepare food
• allow 2 hrs daylight to build snow shelter
• Consolidate small, dense, and white objects

3
Keep a Clean Camp

• Imagine your camp after a 2 foot snowfall
• Put things away before you lose them
• Practice Leave No Trace
• Dont get sloppy with human waste

4
Rehydrate and Eat for Warmth

• Melt ice or snow for following day
• consider two stoves for a party of 3 or more
• fuel usage is 6 personmeals/quart or more when
  melting
• Start and finish with a hot beverage
• cocoa or (herbal!) tea with sugar
• tea bag or snow cleans your cup
• hydrate or die!
• Thick, hearty soups are great
• starch base (pasta, couscous, instant rice,
  potato buds)
• add protein, fat, and flavor (beans, meat, tvp,
  cheese, butter)
• Take food and drink to bed

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Stay Warm and Dry

• Keep busy, dont stand around
• Poofy down jackets rock (keep dry)
• Get in tents/shelters ASAP
• Dont sweat in your sleeping bag
• Sleep with boot liners and water bottles
• Fergodsakes get up and pee!

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Enjoy the Long Night

• Catch up on sleep
• Books, playing cards are great
• Keep track of your headlamp
• Candle lanterns rock (careful with fire)
• Get up early and start the day