Reddit reviews wolfyok 12Pcs Outdoor Camping Cookware Mess Kit, Lightweight Hiking Backpacking Non-Stick Cookset with Piezo Ignition Kit, Pot Pan Bowls, Flashlight and Wire Saw

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Consider getting a camp stove set. "Ultralight" gear is, just that, ultralight. You can get a nice burner that screws right onto the fuel canister, or a slightly larger one that has more a base to it. Amazon.com has lockers that you can pick up your delivery from, or you can go to the local sporting goods store. Pair this with a lightweight, or even a full kit and you're set.

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Amazon has a decent little stove and pot combo for a real good price:

https://www.amazon.com/Wolfyok-Backpacking-Cookware-Flashlight-Ignition/dp/B01985FDA4

I went winter camping my first time in the mountains in Alberta this September... went as low as -10 Celsius at night. These are the tips people gave me for my first backcountry trip in the cold (and I actually had a good and comfortable time):

1. Ideas to stay warm: bring hand warmers, the up-to-10-hours kind. They’re little chemical packets that you shake and the reaction generates heat. These were life savers at night - we put a couple in our sleeping bags with us and they kept the coldest parts of my body warm right till morning. It was actually pretty great. Another user suggested boiling a pot of water, filling your Nalgene bottle and going to sleep with that hot bottle to keep you warm. We didn’t try this but I was prepared. Bonus, you wake up with clean water to drink, haha! The hand warmers were good enough for me, though.
   
   .... I was backpacking for the first time and so I spent a couple hundred dollars on kit and the like, and didn’t have the funds to buy an insulated mat to sleep on when the weather turned south on us a couple days before the trip. I did have a sleeping mat, it just didn’t insulate between me and the ground. But the mats are actually really cheap so if you can work it in, you should get something like this.
   
   The cold earth beneath you will suck all the warmth out of you while you sleep which is why it’s important to make sure you’re either off the ground or have sufficient insulation between you and the ground.
   
   
2. bring two tarps! One to fold underneath your tent (make sure it doesn’t stick out or anything or snow/water will pool between the tarp and your tent and that’s miserable) and one to put over your tent/over the entrance to your tent/over your outside resting area. Waking up to fresh snow in the morning and having to shovel snow out of the fire pit or off a picnic table was super miserable. Haha. And not to mention, this obviously leaves the picnic table and fire pit wet. There were times in my 4 day adventure last month where I thought I’d never know what warmth or dryness was ever again... was really thankful for some other kind backpackers who had a really sweet set up and shared their fire/dry picnic table with us.
   
   
3. This was easy to use and perfect for two people. You don’t need a fire to cook with this. Just buy a little fuel tank (the smallest one will be fine for you if you’re only going for two days, depending on how often you think you’ll need it... assuming you’ll also cook over the fire). It would work for more people, you’ll just have to cook for one person at a time. We used this to cook noodles, breakfast, boil water for drinking, boil water for coffee, rice... oh, cooking in the wilderness was actually my favourite part. This was especially handy after a long long long day of paddling/hiking where we were too lazy to make a fire but needed something to warm up our insides. It’s fast. Easy to clean.
   
   Bring extra socks! Layer up, avoid wearing anything cotton. Your clothes keep you warm by trapping warm air between your body and the outside - if you sweat or if the cotton gets wet from melting snow or something, the little air pockets in cotton fill up with the cold moisture and just makes you cold. I was perfectly comfortable wearing gym leggings under waterproof pants. I wore a polyester first top layer, and then throughout the day would add or take off a water resistant puffy jacket and a rain shell jacket. Fleece is excellent too! At night I would change into clean clothes, sleep in them, and then in the morning I was able to just crawl out and get my day started. I found this less miserable than waking up first thing in the morning, in the cold, not wanting to leave my warm sleeping bag... and having to change before I even started moving getting my blood flowing. Haha. But that’s just me, everyone’s different.
   
   I hope you have a lot of fun, I’m insanely jealous! I would like to try winter camping but I don’t know have much of an outdoorsy friend group where I live and I’m not brave enough to go alone just get. Haha.
   
   
   
   
   
   

You couls gat a Vango Bravo 300 for £59.00
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vango-Bravo-300-Tunnel-Tent/dp/B00R4X5R3G/ref=sr_1_48?s=camping-hiking&srs=1656886031&ie=UTF8&qid=1521211571&sr=1-48



12Pcs Outdoor Camping Cookware Mess Kit by Wolfyok for £20.00

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wolfyok-Backpacking-Cookware-Ignition-12-Items/dp/B01985FDA4/ref=lp_3076437031_1_22?s=camping-hiking&ie=UTF8&qid=1521325470&sr=1-22