3 Days Winter Wild Camping – Sleeping under Tree – Cold Weather Hike
3 days bushcraft trip and enjoying really cold weather. Previous hike was so much harder where temps pended under and over the freezing point. Had a great time in the moody winter forest with nice food and great views. Planned to eat the big hunk of meat the first day but it took me 3 days to try to get it to thaw in the cold. And the mince was not frozen to begin with but was very frosty when i tried to cook it. It was so many years ago we had cold weather like this and I almost forgot how to deal with it. The dry air is a blessing for sure. Im really glad with my new sleeping bag combo. It may not seem optimal, I tried before the more common combination of the Tropen together with the Defence4 but this one is great on the outside because its big and the only square one they have in production, and has great water resistance. The spacious way I find very comfortable as I am a crazy tosser and turner when i sleep. So its more like you have the defence4 inside a bivy where you can move. I was very warm and comfortable in the cold. I never insulated more from underneath or used my hot water bottle as was the plan. Getting both bags to fit inside the defence4 compression sack was great bonus. As I write this rain is pouring down my windows and ice on the lakes is gone. Next time I will be back with the cold. Enjoy
As always materials for crafting etc is brought to site and not harvested on location. Please follow the Swedish Allemansrätt if you go camping in Sweden. Lately a lot of sites where i park my car to reach trailheads has been piled up with litter with foreign language on it left last summer/fall. I just cant understand people from down in Europe traveling up to Sweden, with the sole purpose of experiencing wilderness, and they just leave trash in plain sight when they leave. I mean.. at least burn it if you got a fire anyway, so plastics don’t reach water ways or hurt animals. Bottles, plastic bags, old tables and even depressing looking old sofas. Unbelievable. Lately land owners have put up locked road barriers and thats sad I think because we always had a free open landscape open to anyone. Leave no trace.