Camping List for Cold Weather

 Applicable to Payson in October[65-70/45-41night], or the Rocky Mountains in July. Sedona in May [75day/52night]. Note: Oct 16 in Christopher Creek is 61/41. Need fleece hats for the night!!

[Temperature ranges of 70s-60s in the day, to 50s-40s at night]

Prepare yourself for complaints that this was a terrible idea, from the local child population, early in the morning, and in the cold evening.

The best antidote is hot chocolate milk, a working propane camp-stove [or even better, a rocket stove] is a must-have.

And wool socks. Adult size is fine, stuck indiscriminately onto children, pulled up like medieval hosen. And hats. They all need something keeping their ears warm. And those puffy winter coats for the mornings, and the nights.

Cold Camping List [days 61-70, nights 41-46]

Chuck Bag (Personal care) Put each category into a labeled gallon ziploc bag inside of the chuck bag. It makes it very easy to quickly find things, when the call for bandaids or hair ties goes up.

1. Light
1. Flashlights/Lanterns. Headlamps best for setting up camping the dark.
2. LED string lights
3. Duct tape (if the zipper gives out on a tent, a lifesaver)
2. Skin and Teeth
1. Sunscreen & aloe vera gel
2. Toothbrushes, Toothpaste, Xylitol mints
3. Vinegar Spray
3. Hair Bag
1. Hairbrush
2. hair ties 
3. hair oil/Conditioner
4. Anti-Nurgle bag First aid and Cleanliness Bag
1. Babywipes and Hand Sanitizer
2. Bandaids, Ointment
3. Allergy Meds, emergency benadryl
4. Bugspray [and anti-itch cream]
5. Downtime Bag
1. car cell phone charger
2. Bible, 
3. Books for Daddy to read to us during the downtime in the camp
4. ?Game

Clothing & Kit

• Hats, Sunglasses
• Big Bag O' Socks 
• ADULT WOOL SOCKS FOR EVERYONE
• Waterbottles on belts [carabiners]
• Puffy Coats 
• Polarfleece Jackets//hoodie
• 1 POLARFLEECE BLANKET PER PERSON

• Clothes
• short sleeve shirts x # of days
• leggings x # of days
• long sleeve shirts/tunic/dress x # of days
• 2 x underwear x # of days
• 2 x socks  x # of days
•  sweatpants or fleece pants [like over-pants, a MUST for night-time]
• !! Fleece Jacket [wear over long sleeved cotton jammy shirt]
• If there's a creek, double the clothes for little kids
• !!!If it gets down to 50s at night, polar fleece jacket and polar fleece pants for all the littles, to wear over their jammies
• Fleece hats to sleep!! (Or hoods)
• Rubber sandals
• BOOTS or sneakers

Camp

• Sleeping Bags and Pillows 
• !!!! if night gets under 52, you NEED polarfleece lining, like a sleep sack, inside of the sleeping bag PER KID. Wrap the little ones in polarfleece coats and pants inside of their sleeping bags
• Mattress Pad for Josh, and his pillows and knee pillows
• Tarps
• Tents [make sure you pack the rain flys!]
• Shade Tent
• chairs
• 2 fold up poly picnic blankets (lying down looking at the stars)
• little broom & dustpan for breaking down camp
• 2 empty gallon jugs, 5 gallon jug
• Campstove & Butane
• !!Rocket stove* [if no fire restriction]

Chuck Box

• Food
• Garlic salt, pepper, salt, sugar, tea
• Foil & those campfire hamburger cookers
• Cast Iron Skillet
• Big Pot (cocoa)
• Ladle
• Wood flat spoon
• Metal cups for hot cocoa
• Mugs for cocoa and cereal
• Disposable table-cloths
• Canopener
• Paper Plates and Bowls
• Forks, spoons, knives
• Cutting board
• dishpan
• Shears
• Fire and Camp
• Paper towels 
• Trashbags
• Branch cutter* [if no fire restriction]
• Firestarter and matches
• Dutch oven [foil packets are a joke] for open fire OR pan for rocket-stove
• Pot for boiling water for tea
• Gallon Ziploc bags
• parachute cord/string
• Sleep
• Everyone has a sleeping bag
• Everyone has a poloar fleece blanket
• Everyone has a hat
• Everyone has a pillow
• Josh's very snug requirements
• Pillows
• Knee pillows
• Mattress
• 2 orange Coleman sleeping bags zipped together
• 2 low quality green Ozark trail sleeping bags unzipped used on top as blankets 
• Green fleece blanket
• Hat!
• H---for night clothing, loose large layers, better than tight layers!
• A night-cap [preferably a fleecy hat. Also can use a man's shirt as an improvised balaclava, face through the head-hole, arms tied around your head] It makes a world of difference.

Food

Day 1—lunch 1130am just before we hit the road	Left-overs
Day 1 dinner	Hamburgers/Hotdogs, bell peppers, carrot sticks
Day 2  Breakfast	[Hot] Milk & cereal, apples & cheese OR [Cold] Cheesy Grits, eggs, bacon & hot cocoa
Day 2 Lunch	Cold cut sandwiches [french bread, sandwich meat] Cold sausages from last night. Boiled eggs bell peppers, carrot sticks
Day 2 Dinner	Sausages & Bread & cheese  [[Ramen noodles + eggs]]
Day 3 Breakfast	Apples and cheese, Cold Cereal [if we got more milk]

Grocery Shopping List

1. Big Tub of Asian Cabbage Salad
2. 2 lb Cheese blocks x number of days
3. Butter or oil
4.  Onions, carrot, bellpepper
5. ketchup, mustard
6. Cereal & Milk & BOWLS/CUPS
7. !!!!cocoa
8. Hamburgers & Buns
9. Hot Dogs [freeze before] & Buns
10. FRENCH Bread!!
11. Cream cheese
12. !!!! Marshamellows
13. Peanut Butter
14. Boiled eggs
15. Raw Eggs? [if outside temps cold enough]
16. Milk
17. Lunchmeat [freeze before]
18. Apples
19. Ramen noodles
20. Peanuts & minimarshamellows & craisins [trailmix] OR Peanuts and cinnamon toast crunch cereal, makes a nice trailmix. Basically Peanuts + sweet thing. Half unsalted and half salted peanuts makes just the right amount of salt.
21. Savory trailmix---peanuts, pumpkin seeds (pepitas), savory chex, [garlic salt, parmesan]

Additional Tips

• First, make sure the van has enough gas! This loses 30/40 minutes "on the way" to get gas. [note: Mesa to Payson only takes 1/4 tank up. And Payson gas is cheaper]
• Group together things by type (e.g. first aid, teeth, skincare) in gallon zip lock bags inside the chuck bag. Kept all the essentials together for easy access

• Bring the Native American Flute....