Gear Organization for Warmth in a Cold Camp on Your Alpine Climbing, Backpacking, or Camping Trip
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“A place for everything, and everything in its place.” Maybe some of you have heard this colloquialism about organization. Around my house, with two boys who (as you read this) have recently turned nine years old, it is most often in reference to cleaning up their rooms.
But, the same principle holds true in a tent.
When we are out in nice and/or warm conditions, it really is just a matter of trying to not misplace things. Again, something that is easier said than done for nine year olds. Misplaced things - at worst - become lost things and - at best - eat up time when we are searching for them. And even if we get the best-case scenario of lost time, the impact of that lost time could mean very little, but it also could mean a lot. If we are, say, trying to hike over a pass and beat the afternoon thunderstorms or trying to get up the snow slope before thawing and sunlight make it wet and sloppy, lost time could mean increased risk.
Again, that’s in nice conditions. When things get really cold, there is another benefit to keeping our gear well organized: we can minimize the amount of time we need to spend outside of our sleeping bags or quilts (maybe searching for that misplaced thing) which means an increased ability to stay warm. The cold, after all, can be an unseen by ever-present enemy of an enjoyable time in the outdoors.
I won’t go too much deeper, here, as I try to keep the blog posts from being redundant to the videos. (If you’ve been reading the blogs, you know.) But, if I think about where I usually am in the tent when I need an item, I know where to put it; and if I know where to put it, and put it there every time, I don’t have to waste time looking for that dread misplaced item.
A place for everything, and everything in its place.