STAYING WARM While Winter Camping In Norway
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- I am out in the forests of NORWAY to spend my first night of the season camping during WINTER. It is not always easy to stay warm, and I am going through some basics on how to stay warm and dry during your winter nights.
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After some months in Germany I am back in the forests of Norway, close to Trondheim. I will find a spot to camp and show you some of the equipment and techniques I used and learned to stay warm and dry during the cold season. I am not by any means the most experienced winter camper, so if you have any tips for me or anyone else, you can leave them in the comments. For me it is very important to be outside and wildcamp again, enjoy the nature around me, and see if I can find any animals already now.
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I am not very experienced with Winter Camping, so as soon as I had equipment that is efficient enough for colder temperatures I made my way out in a local forest stretch to see how it will work and maybe to hear a black grouse for the upcoming season in April. The black grouse project is coming soon, and I am leaving to still very cold Dovrefjell tomorrow. I mainly needed to prepare for the latter, because many things can go wrong fast in winter times as I had to already learn a lot on Svalbard.
A thing about product placement, advertisement and others: I take sponsors that I believe in and that can help me make more videos. Consider that I am not posting often and that I do have to mark everything with product placement were I use free products. Those are the rules in Norway and I think you should be knowing which things might made their way on the channel for free. In the end you get all entertainment here for free, except for my kind patrons. Without my sponsors I would be unable to go out camping in winter, I nearly froze in fall if people remember. Cheers.
Been many years since I did winter backpacking trips. I had an REI Expedition tent (9 pounds including rain fly) and a 3 pound goose down sleeping bag with a 3/8-inch closed cell foam pad underneath. I also wore insulated underwear and dry wool socks at night. It was below zero F so I wore my wool gloves and ski mask while sleeping. I had my candle lantern suspended from the tent ceiling and left it burning all night. It produced enough warmth to keep the frost off the inside of my tent. Nothing like the surprise of getting up in the morning and accidentally brushing the inside of a frosty tent. Sometimes the candle burned out before daylight and I got cold, wet frost dumped on me anyway. I learned to be careful. I put my boots under the foot of my sleeping bag but they would still be very stiff when I first put them on, but they would not be frozen. I wore my warm parka until I hit the trail and warmed up a bit. Then I would stop and fix breakfast and stow my parka and insulated underwear top. If there was no wind I was OK. If there was wind I would either add a sweater or, if it was cold enough, put the parka back on.
It's better to melt Ice rather than Snow. Snow still has bacteria after its melted meanwhile Ice never had bacteria in the first place
Super video 👍
Thank you :)
I've been camping here for years in Canada, but I have never been brave enough to try winter camping. Hats off to you!
When I look at the extra equipment I needed, there is clearly a line to cross. I always wanted to camp in the snow in Kristiansand, but then it often disappeared before I made it. Now I am leaving for Dovrefjell soon and there is still quite some, it will be an adventure for sure :)
You do realise that a proper winter sleeping pad probably propels you at high speed at least 50% towards Hilmer levels lol. You must have been frrrrreeeeezing before. Can't bear to think about it... Your 'I'm no Morten Hilmer' vid gets new respect.
I never had very good camping gear besides summer times 😅 it makes quite a difference. Going to Dovrefjell this week and hoping my gear holds up well this time. I would be literally unable to do these things without my sponsors, I’m not sure if people really got that 😄
@@GunnarDresler It's expensive stuff! I've been trying to accrue as much gear as I can self funded over the years and it's hard at the costs they come in.
Maybe there are some grants to get for your work out there as well as your sponsorships.
Yeah, pretty expensive sometimes. I would not be able to afford it right now. I have not really looked into grants, so I have no clue really :D
@@GunnarDresler look at grants for creatives, artists, outdoor activities and business start ups. I have never had a winter mat of the best standard they are these days so my empathy for your experience without one is real. Fairly standard self inflating thermarest (secondhand) was as far as my budget went, but that alone was a revelation compared to just foam roll.
Don't be afraid to talk about budget strain, it's very real and sponsors will help etc.
Take care out there
I can at least tell you guys that Dovrefjell was difficult last week, but not in a temperature sense. It was around -8 at night and my setup held up pretty well, it was even a bit too warm at times. That problem seems to be solved for next season :)
Thank you. All the very best. 👍📷😎
Thank you, Rob :)
Good stuff Gunnar, love these kinds of videos as I always pick up tips.
The new sponsor sounds very useful too!
Glad you do. It is of course something else, but there is always space for that. Just getting going again :)
And yes, they have everything from clothing to tour food :)