Winter Warmth

Lets say that you are dogsledding across Canada, or backcountry skiing in the Wind River range in Wyoming, or Mountaineering in the Brooks Range in Alaska or even climbing Mount Everest, what do all of these activities have in common?  If you said that it is stupidly cold and miles away from any nice toasty furnaces then ding ding ding! The winter is an incredible time to get out and play in the backcountry with just one problem, if you don’t know what you are doing it is stunningly easy to get trench-foot/frostbite/be cold and miserable/die. Thats why we made this video explaining the winter weather layering system that NOLS uses. Now no layering system is perfect and everyone has their own personal preferences and systems for staying warm in the backcountry but after 45 years of field testing NOLS has a pretty solid layering system. Disclaimer: no matter what layering system you bring winter camping, you will probably still be cold and miserable at some point.

You could avoid the whole dying thing though.