Ice fishing is well known, but not something most of us encounter or see. Get a hot beverage, a heavy blanket, and a sweater. And what he wears and his techniques for staying comfortable in these frozen-turkey conditions are useful lessons for anyone who camps in the cold. Parked near or even on the thick ice, it’s his changing and recovery room. Second, he explains in great detail exactly how he stays warm and toasty or at least has a plan ready on how he’s going to warm-up, and be toasty.Ī huge part of Ken’s warm and toasty plan is his Four Wheel Camper Fleet. First, he clearly has a deep and unrelenting passion for the outdoors, and fishing. The answer, as Ken explains, is two fold. How and why would anyone subject themselves to the kind of cold? Even if you have down feathers and aren’t one to duck high heating bills, enduring another long and dark winter might become an egg-too-tough crack.įrom our warm Florida nest, Ken Barry’s extreme cold weather camping and ice fishing stories read a bit like Mark Watney’s time on Mars. Once you fly south for the winter, it’s hard to go back to wintering up north. What’s that weatherman? Snowmageddon? Snowpocalypse? Snow-my-goodness? Snow-what! Bring it. Just a few years ago we lived in Pennsylvania, and we were quite accustomed to the annual wintery onslaught. Of course, we weren’t always so thin-skinned. How he stays warm and comfortable is an important lesson for anyone interested in extreme winter camping.Īs snowbirds who drive south the moment we smell cold, the mere idea of driving onto a frozen lake to ice fish sends chills through us big enough to set off distant seismographs. In the deep cold of Minnesota winter, Ken Barry takes his Four Wheel Camper to frozen lakes and goes ice fishing.
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