A gear check is not enough for cold winter camping. You prep for at least two or three weeks with training on how to

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Jan 24, 2023
8:36:06pm

Baron AKA "Dear Leader"

layer, stay warm, what to bring and what not to bring. Not a simple gear check and go campout.

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Baron

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How cold is too cold for a winter campout for Priests?

jrifkin48

1/24/23 8:15pm

Who’s in charge?

kotacoug

1/24/23 8:17pm

Laurels 😈

Nat Gas Man

1/24/23 8:18pm

I’d send my kid. Have done colder for Klondike.

Squirt

1/24/23 8:17pm

We’ve done as cold as -10 degrees with scouts, but priests are wimpy.

Hawk in the 303

1/24/23 8:18pm

That sounds miserable.

FootBackwards

1/24/23 8:18pm

Way back when I was in Scouts

Cougrrrs Roll

1/24/23 8:18pm

Depends on equipment. I have seen kids woefully unprepared for Winter camping

Hoopster

1/24/23 8:19pm

Right. I would do a gear check before letting them in the car and telling them nope if they don't have enough.

P-Boy Squad

1/24/23 8:20pm

A gear check is not enough for cold winter camping. You prep for at least two or three weeks with training on how to

Baron

1/24/23 8:36pm

As a teenager I went snow camping. We snowshoed then dug out snow caves to

rivercitycoug

1/24/23 8:21pm

That was one of our best campouts. It was a blast

crimedog

1/24/23 10:14pm

If you're prepared, and they are, it's fine. I've camped at even colder. The preparation is key, though

jdub

1/24/23 8:22pm

I guess I hacked Hoopster above.

jdub

1/24/23 8:23pm

What skills do 13 yr olds need that winter camping provides?

kotacoug

1/24/23 8:37pm

Resilience. Apparently the youth are in short supply of that.

Baron

1/24/23 8:39pm

Probably the biggest one is how to stay warm in adverse conditions. Every winter I read about people driving

jdub

1/24/23 8:49pm

I’ll never have my kids do a winter campout after what I experienced as a kid.

Dangerous

1/24/23 8:22pm

Same but I don't let my kids go to movies or date redheads. Bad stuff as kid. Can't let it happen again.

Baron

1/24/23 9:11pm

Camping between October and April should be illegal in the church

DKN

1/24/23 8:24pm

It’s cold for the adults but the boys love them! I hate them cause I’m a

Atama

1/24/23 8:30pm

what does your drunkenness have to do with it?

SingleStrapBackpack

1/24/23 8:47pm

They say the alcohol warms you up

jdub

1/24/23 8:56pm

I wonder if his bishop knows he's a wino

SingleStrapBackpack

1/24/23 8:59pm

Was supposed to say “wimp” 😏

Atama

1/24/23 10:22pm

figured but did you really expect me to pass that up? 🙂

SingleStrapBackpack

1/24/23 10:34pm

No. On CB, nothing should be passed up! Any opportunity to make people laugh

Atama

1/25/23 8:19am

A good sleeping bag, layer up with clothes and they'll be fine.

SoValleyCOUG

1/24/23 8:26pm

We’ve done a winter camp out around 12 degrees. The boys loved it. Just

Atama

1/24/23 8:28pm

I went on the ole Klondike camp out as a kid and it sucked but mainly because I had a terrible attitude.

cougarfanatic

1/24/23 8:29pm

Cold camping blows. What are we trying to prove? Hated it as a kid and hate it

Mr. Rumsfield

1/24/23 8:31pm

What are they going to do when they're not huddled in a tent or snowcave?

vagabonder

1/24/23 8:32pm

We have done -30. One parent made her kid sleep in the cabin. Kids mocked him appropriately.

Baron

1/24/23 8:34pm

Have camped with scouts in 10 below. Good gear and good food = good times.

AFAlaskaCoug

1/24/23 8:34pm

Count Cougar

1/24/23 8:35pm

That’s nothing. Try Klondike at Bacon Park in the Uintas in February.

RdF3

1/24/23 8:37pm

Oh the memories this brought back...loved making and racing sleds there!

Brute66

1/24/23 9:43pm

Haha I figured someone on here would know what I was talking about.

RdF3

1/24/23 9:51pm

Totally fine if they have decent gear.

Gunga Galunga

1/24/23 8:40pm

That is totally fine.

trueblue04

1/24/23 8:42pm

That's not even cold.

dmatt

1/24/23 8:44pm

A few tips for making winter campouts more safe and enjoyable

jdub

1/24/23 8:47pm

Retort meals and bring your own are the easiest especially if really cold and want to minimize dishes.

Baron

1/24/23 8:51pm

What about that dumb noisy space blanket my parents always had me put in my bed roll?

RdF3

1/24/23 8:52pm

Yeah, those are great.

jdub

1/24/23 8:53pm

#4 is huge. And you can tell the boys that over and over. And then the next

bluesloth

1/24/23 9:31pm

We took several trips to Strawberry with the scouts

Paysoncoug88

1/24/23 10:10pm

Winter camping is miserable. No useful purpose in the year 2023.

shoganai

1/24/23 8:51pm

This was my view as a kid. I went with a group who did it right and it was a blast and the kids love it and

Baron

1/24/23 8:52pm

There is no correct way to sleep outside in the winter.

shoganai

1/24/23 8:54pm

Not surprising at all.

Baron

1/24/23 8:55pm

RE: Winter camping is miserable. No useful purpose in the year 2023.

jdub

1/24/23 8:52pm

We had -5 one year and everyone cheered when they heard the temp in the morning.

ochobeeguy

1/24/23 8:51pm

Advice on Winter Camping from hydrologist and cold expert Randy Julander…

Billie Ruben

1/24/23 8:55pm

8. Camp next to a lodge, where the leaders and the freezing boys can end up

Florwood

1/24/23 9:48pm

Is someone in the group experienced with snow camping, caving? If so, possibly, but not on a whim

Bob Vance

1/24/23 9:13pm

Probably shouldn’t go off the low is lower than 40

Skeptical Optimist

1/24/23 9:17pm

Last weekend we took the deacons

eyebleedblu

1/24/23 9:22pm

We've done snow forts with the young men for the past few years

volleyjiver

1/24/23 9:25pm

Some of my fondest memories from Scouting are snow cave camping

HandwovenBox

1/24/23 9:39pm

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