Your car is your Baselodge

[KingGrump]

The triangular point in the front grinds into my crotch.

Is that a good thing or bad?

 

[johnnyvw]

how about a regular folding chair that you use for home?

I have a dryguy bootwarmer that also plugs into the 12V... but maybe throw some handwarmers into your boots, so it will warm up by the time you get to the parking lot?

I guess you missed the fact that I got a Kulkea heated boot back. The boots were nice and warm when I put them on, but after 2-1/2 hours my toes were colder than I felt like dealing with. And yeah, a simple folding chair is what I have in mind...I just don't have any. Thinking something like this one...

$20 at Lowes

 

[Steve]

That looks like mine. It's awesome. Folded up on it's side it slides right into the back of my car. Pad keeps it from getting too cold.

 

[James]

You want a plastic seat. It’s cold out.
I know someone who’s using one of those bath tub stools. Doesn’t fold.

 

[Steve]

Metal chair has been fine. Padded. It stays in the car, doesn't get that cold. (Of course it hasn't been that cold yet this winter.)

 

[tch]

OK, I need some ideas/cheering up. I've only skied pretty local this year and I'm finding the "no lodge" part hard.
- putting ON ski boots at car is OK. But taking them off at end of the day when they're cold and I'm cold...sux. I really miss changing and booting up in the lodge.
- lunch is hard. Yesterday, I ate outside in a snow shower. I was cold, the picnic table seat was wet, snow got in my face...yarg! B/c parking is not close, I would have had to walk 200-300 yards to get in my (small) warm car and eat.
- weather has not been extreme...but I've been cold and unable to go in, sit for a minute, and warm up. I am generally pretty robust, but I'd not realized how much I depended on a short warm-up every 2 hours or so.

So anyway, I fully realize these define first-world problems. But anyone got any hacks to make this all easier?

 

[Wilhelmson]

OK, I need some ideas/cheering up. I've only skied pretty local this year and I'm finding the "no lodge" part hard.
- putting ON ski boots at car is OK. But taking them off at end of the day when they're cold and I'm cold...sux. I really miss changing and booting up in the lodge.
- lunch is hard. Yesterday, I ate outside in a snow shower. I was cold, the picnic table seat was wet, snow got in my face...yarg! B/c parking is not close, I would have had to walk 200-300 yards to get in my (small) warm car and eat.
- weather has not been extreme...but I've been cold and unable to go in, sit for a minute, and warm up. I am generally pretty robust, but I'd not realized how much I depended on a short warm-up every 2 hours or so.

So anyway, I fully realize these define first-world problems. But anyone got any hacks to make this all easier?

I have always refused to use chemical hand warmers but now i put the warmer packs in my boots when i leave the house and they get pretty warm. Then i use them in my gloves to feel a little warm. I have a big jacket no shell this year.

I have to pull the liners out to get the boots off but i persevere.

But it hasnt been that cold yet maybe 15 degrees in the am was the coldest but it warmed up quickly.

We have been eating at picinic tables and i browse the store or get a hot drink ifni am cold. I found a wall heater in the old lodge. There is a lot of indoor space if needed Eating in the car with 2 sometimes 3 kids is funny and the interior is trashed but its a 2013 so i dont care

 

[DanoT]

- weather has not been extreme...but I've been cold and unable to go in, sit for a minute, and warm up. I am generally pretty robust, but I'd not realized how much I depended on a short warm-up every 2 hours or so.

So anyway, I fully realize these define first-world problems. But anyone got any hacks to make this all easier?

I've posted this before: If I didn't have an RV for boot changing I'd get an insulated pop up (10 seconds) ice fishing tent, portable Buddy propane heater, chair and mat.

That won't solve the need for a warm up every few hours but how about wearing an extra layer?

 

[Doug Briggs]

I've posted this before: If I didn't have an RV for boot changing I'd get an insulated pop up (10 seconds) ice fishing tent, portable Buddy propane heater, chair and mat.

That won't solve the need for a warm up every few hours but how about wearing an extra layer?

What brand/model tent do you have? We used a couple at the top of the race course last week. I didn't know these were a thing. Insulated with a Mr Buddy sounds like it would make winter camping pretty cozy.

 

[Doug Briggs]

I have a truck camper so I don't own or need an insulated tent but they are available from Amazon Canada:
I did see a video where a guy compared a Buddy heater in a non insulated vs insulated tent and he said the heat up time was noticeable with the insulated tent.

I looked them up and saw a wide range. I mis-read your previous post when I posed my question.

 

[DanoT]

What brand/model tent do you have? We used a couple at the top of the race course last week. I didn't know these were a thing. Insulated with a Mr Buddy sounds like it would make winter camping pretty cozy.

I just deleted my post because the link to Amazon.ca didn't work, but I see that you have found the Eskimo tents anyway.

 

[Doug Briggs]

@Dano, I'll be looking for the video on insulated vs uninsulated, too.

 

[DanoT]

Earlier in this thread I joked that if you buy an insulated ice fishing tent and then they Covid close the skiing; you'd be all set to spend the rest of the winter ice fishing.

 

[DanoT]

@Dano, I'll be looking for the video on insulated vs uninsulated, too.

It was a vid from a youtube winter camping guy who was trying out his first insulated tent, but I do not have a link.

What I do have is two layers of a Thinsulate knockoff sandwiched between to layers of fabric and 2" thick hardwalls insulated with extruded polystyrene, so R10. It works very well.

 

[mdf]

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- weather has not been extreme...but I've been cold and unable to go in, sit for a minute, and warm up. I am generally pretty robust, but I'd not realized how much I depended on a short warm-up every 2 hours or so.

So anyway, I fully realize these define first-world problems. But anyone got any hacks to make this all easier?

I have these gloves -- expensive but really warm: https://chavalusa.com/

Or maybe go whole hog?

 

[johnnyvw]

OK, I need some ideas/cheering up. I've only skied pretty local this year and I'm finding the "no lodge" part hard.
- putting ON ski boots at car is OK. But taking them off at end of the day when they're cold and I'm cold...sux. I really miss changing and booting up in the lodge.
- lunch is hard. Yesterday, I ate outside in a snow shower. I was cold, the picnic table seat was wet, snow got in my face...yarg! B/c parking is not close, I would have had to walk 200-300 yards to get in my (small) warm car and eat.
- weather has not been extreme...but I've been cold and unable to go in, sit for a minute, and warm up. I am generally pretty robust, but I'd not realized how much I depended on a short warm-up every 2 hours or so.

So anyway, I fully realize these define first-world problems. But anyone got any hacks to make this all easier?

I'm not skiing anywhere my car would be a long walk. That limits which areas I go to, but so be it...better than sitting out the season

 

[Doug Briggs]

It was a vid from a youtube winter camping guy who was trying out his first insulated tent, but I do not have a link.

What I do have is two layers of a Thinsulate knockoff sandwiched between to layers of fabric and 2" thick hardwalls insulated with extruded polystyrene, so R10. It works very well.

I just realized I put my latches upside down! Oh well. That's not going to get changed.

 

[Dwight]

I just realized I put my latches upside down! Oh well. That's not going to get changed.
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Not quite the same thing as mounting bindings upside down or backwards, so you are good.

 

[noncrazycanuck]

now packing a heavy plastic crate in the suv trunk (an old dairyland milk crate).
loose stuff goes inside it for trip to hill. empty it on arrival and stand on it to get the skis out of the box. (now needed for a new higher vehicle)
then serves as a seat to put the boots on. End of day reverse the process.

Bonus is every thing in it is dry by the time I'm home, the solid tupperware box I used to use always had water in it.

 

[motogreg]

I slapped a cargo carrier like this: https://www.harborfreight.com/500-l...-carrier-66983.html?_br_psugg_q=cargo+carrier with a board on top into my minivan's hitch, perfect height for sitting, doffing boots, etc, put a plastic bin on top and twas the right height for a campstove for hot chocs for the kiddies. Paired with some camp chairs and a portable propane firepit we were sitting pretty....