Seems like an overreaction to some good-natured teasing.

Floridians are evidently a Little too  thin skinned for cold camping anyway. It has been below  zero here all day with a stiff wind. I have been out skiing twice and am going to go one more time when the  full moon gets a little higher but it sure is nice to come and sit in my lazy boy by the fire in between.
Jon

Thin skinned? Perhaps.......Concoctions? Nope, not even a little. I did run a trapline for quite a few years in Washington, the U.P. of Michigan and downstate. I sold fur which I put up on the Seattle fur exchange as well as local dealers in Michigan. About the only thing I haven't caught has been wolves (which I didn't try for) and I failed at Marten trapping despite giving it a good go. Tough? Sure, you have to be to run a line. The one thing you have to have as a trapper is what I call grit. The ability to wade through the mess and keep on going day after day month after month. I have lots of good stories but if I share them it just provides fodder for the MT haters.

I felt compelled to reveal a little history lest I be a Florida guy telling folk to not let others discourage them from getting out. Oh well.........For me its not so much being uncomfortable in tent (by all means have a excellent down bag and piles of thermal gear) but its the amount of time spent in the tent I would find discouraging. 12 or 13 hours in a nylon tent would be punishment itself regardless the temps.

As for me.......I would embrace the winter if I lived in the north. I would ski, snowshoe, snowmobile, trap, hunt and fish like I have done my entire life before moving to Florida and cold would be a reality to overcome and wouldn't stop me from pursuing the things I like to do. Didn't stop me before wether it was predator calling at 2 in the morning on a zero degree night or huddled behind some one else's shanty while the wind was honkin 40 MPH and spindrift collecting in the hole every 10 minutes.

my thread was mostly for ideas on how plausible it would be to achieve. it wouldnt be a dead of winter thing, maybe a november or march endeavor.

the idea was to use one of those insulated shacks, the pop up style ones. bring foam for a floor and fish and sleep in the same building.

being that i have a month only baby, its probably just a lot of talk at this point, but i thought it sounds fun.

i lived in northern wisconsin growing up and still live in central wisconsin. i icefish a lot, i hunt, i camp, i look for deer antler sheds, and shovel my neighbors driveways because i dont feel that should have to come out in the cold. im used to dealing with cold.

mastertangler wrote on Jan 6^th, 2015 at 1:22am:


Yeah, well, most of us that live up here are well aware of that 'lifestyle'.  It is not uncommon - it's quite typical in fact.  So, it looks like your unique MT . . . . just like everybody else.  Obviously, Keillor was lost on you.