I still want to get camping, but the weather doesn’t seem to want to cooperate. I’m not going to go out on a frigid winter’s night, nor on a cloudy, dark depressing day. There needs to be enough snow that I can either drag my gear back in woods or I can drive my pickup back to some campsite. I need to make sure I get enough time to get started, to make sure I have the propane up and working, and warm enough so I can light the heater.

Winter camping is just tough. It requires so much gear and a lot of variables. It can be done, and with proper planning can be quite successful – as witnessed from my Christmas Day trip. But so far, I’ve not been able to make all the conditions meet. Maybe the Ground Hog will prove to be wrong, and things will be mild enough, so I can get out camping some weeks in March. We will see.