Top 7 Winter Camping Mistakes & How to Sleep Warm! | Essential Tips for Comfy Nights

hi I'm stina and as you can see winter has definitely arrived here in the North of Sweden so what wouldn't fit better than talking about winter camping now when the snow and cold has arrived who doesn't want to sleep comfortable in their tent even though it's freezing temperatures with my 20 years of winter camping experience I would today tell you the seven most common mistakes campers do on winter camping and I will also tell you what you should do to feel the most comfortable when sleeping in a tent in winter so who am I to tell you what to do and not to do I'm stina and I live here in Swedish L land in at the arst Circle in a small town called ymok and together with my partner mati I run an outdoor company doing tours all year round but our busy season is the winter that extends over 6 months per year up here in the North North during this time we take people out on dog sling tours with our huskys and our tours are not ordinary tourist Arrangements but rather challenging adventures and Expeditions in a quite extreme environment and we do a lot of winter camping so let's dig in with the first of the seven most common mistakes we see people do when sleeping in a tent in Winter mistake number one let's start with the sleeping system and what's underneath you the sleeping pad many campers go out with a sleeping pad that isn't warm enough or suitable for cold temperatures you must check so you have a sleeping pad that is made for the temperatures you're going out in it's not going to be a comfortable sleep if you go out with a one or two Seas SE a mattress and it for example is -5° C outside even though your mattress look thick the ground is cold and the cold would go up through your body if the L layers underneath you isn't good enough we ourself prefer to use these inflatable types of sleeping mats and if you want to complement with a thinner eom mat something like this you you can have this either underneath or on top of your inflatable mattress and I think that's make a big difference also helps a little bit from condensation on the madess mistake number two having a two cold sleeping bag it's a common problem that you overestimate the temperature grading on your sleeping bag and most people will need a warmer sleeping bag than the temperature rating tells sleeping bag ratings usually show three temperature values Comfort limit and extreme and for a beginner it's easy to think that the limit temperature is good enough but the limit temperature is just a limit and you wouldn't feel warm in those temps our experience is that you should choose a sleeping bag that has a comfort rating that is actually a bit lower than the temperatures you are expecting another observation is that women usually feel colder in the nights than men do there's also other factors that can make you feel cold and it's for example if you are very tired hungry or wet and in those cases you also need more insulation to feel warm also what clothes you're wearing when you're sleeping will play a big part in your comfort a really good tip to get um more comfy sleep if it's really cold is to get a fleece or a marina W Inlet we use these These are homemade fleece inlets and they actually raise the temperatures with about 10° in the sleeping bag so it's a very easy and cheap way to get a good night [Music] sleep mistake number three stepping into the sleeping bag if you're cold and freezing you should never uh tuck down in a sleeping bag if you're cold even though it feels like a really good thing at the moment because I know who doesn't want to step into a warm sleeping bag if you're cold uh well you have to remember the sleeping bag doesn't produce warm in itself it's just insulation you can compare it with h for example in summer time you have a cold drink and you want to keep the drink cool and what do you do then yeah you put it in an insulation bottle and it's the same with a sleeping bag if you're cold going into it you will just insulate the cold and it would take a much longer time before you get warm my best tip is to do a little workout before you step in you can jump around or for example go and fetch some firewood for the campfire in the morning or do something active to get your temperatures raising so you're warm before you tuck in for the night another comy tip is to take your water bottle and boil up some really hot water fill it up in the flask and then put it down in one of your wool socks and lay it in your sleeping bag like a little heater but Shake carefully so the lid is on so you don't get water all over in your bag that is [Music] nice mistake number four wearing wet and sweaty clothes in the sleeping bag it's a really common thing that you go to bed in some of the clothes you've been wearing during the day that are not really dry so always bring uh extra pair of long wool underwear that you keep dry all the time to use in the night it's very important that you have dry material closest to your body and if you have that it's actually possible to dry out your other um other damp layers uh in the night you just put it on top of the dry one and then it would dry out during the night I myself uh wear wearing many layers of wood clothes uh in my sleeping bag while winter camping and I like to have them loose fit to get the most warmth as possible to sleep in your outer layer clothes is not a good idea because most outer layer clothes has like a shell material and it doesn't breed but you can for example take your jacket and put it on top of your sleeping bag like an extra insulation or you could put it under your sleeping bag between the sleeping mat and the sleeping bag to extra insulation from [Music] beneath mistake number five not using a hat on your head your body is like a thermos flask and most of the heat goes up out through your head so always bring an extra hat I prefer to use a beanie in the KN because they are not bulky and they are slim fits so that's nice and uh the beanie should always be dry and it's nice if it's softt I think and but uh the materials is very important it's never bring a cotton beanie because cotton always feels cold in freezing temperatures uh I also sleeping usually sleeping in a wool hoodie and then I put the hoodie up because then the hoodie also protects my neck and give the neck some extra warmth so I think that's nice mistake number six breathing in the sleeping bag how nice doesn't it feel to just tuck down your head and face into the sleeping bag and you can feel the heat from your breath going spreading out in the sleeping bag and it get nice and comfy well that's a really big mistake it will feel warm for the moment but very fast it will be damp and wet in your bag and you will feel cold exhaled air contains a lot of moisture you can see if it's now it's not super cold outside but when you're cold outside and you breathe you can see the air coming out from your mouth and it's moisture uh you can do an easy test uh yourself to see if you just take a pie of cloth and uh put it close to your mouth and breathe for a while then you will see how damp it gets directly instead wear hat as I told you before and I used to take the Hat down in my forehead proper like this and I have the hoodie up and then you also strap all the elastic straps in your sleeping bag around your head so if you strap them tight enough you will only have your nose and mouth exposed for the cold air and this will also keep all the warm air in your sleeping bag from sneaking out so yeah [Music] last but not least mistake number seven closing all ventilation in your tent uh just as with your breath in the sleeping bag you will exhale a lot of moisture in your tent so keep as much ventilation open as possible in the night we for example don't even close the inner tent properly in Winter we only keep it like this even though you have all ventilation open in your tent in the night you will if it's cold you will get um layer of condensation and frost inside of your flyer and for that we use uh vtic cloths you know the ones you use when you're making dishes and in the morning when you wake up you can easily uh swipe off the frost from the walls so this was all from me and I hope you will get a lot of comfortable winter camping experience in the future and if you have more good tips don't hesitate to share them in the comments and don't forget to subscribe and give a thumb up to this video uh if you like more videos like this and you can also check out our Channel and there you will find a lot of videos from our adventures and Expeditions I also want to say a big big thank you to our supporters that support us through patreon buy me a coffee or super thanks or in any other way um we spend a lot of time uh filming and edit these videos and your support give us at least a little payment for all the time we're spending making these videos and we make them outside of our usual working schedule so yeah a big thank you if if you like to support 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Length: 12min 15sec (735 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 12 2023