Winter Camping - wish me luck

[M.T. Pockets]

I've done my share of camping since I was a kid, I take my wife & kids camping a lot and I've camped out on countless fishing trips, hunting trips and just for the heck of it. I'm a little nearvous on this one though. Along with two other adults, I'm taking 15 cub scouts & boy scouts winter camping for three days over this weekend.

Now, I'm a practical camper, not a scout. I use firestarters and as many matches as it takes to build a fire. I use a real tent to sleep in, not a piece of tarp over a dugout in the snow. I use a coleman stove and cook up a good meal, I don't cook over fire if I can help it. I've camped during the winter in Minnesota before in much colder weather, but not with 15 kids. I put the older boy scouts in charge of everything but driving. We'll see how it goes.