Moving outdoors and relishing nature is one of the great gifts of camping. Venturing out into the outdoors and learning how to endure it is again among the potential drawbacks of camping.
While it is a fun that your strength is put to test in camping, but to get windblown, cold, and wet is not so at all. To plan ahead on finding out that the weather report is good at the selected location is wise enough, but weather in wild zones is susceptible to quick change. Moreover, in comparison to urban areas such changes can be more severe. In hilly areas that provide many campsites, the difference between daytime and nighttime temperatures is wider.
A clock of the type that can adjust with indoor or outdoor temperatures, in the tent or outside, should come along with you. Perhaps it would be more advisable to connect with one of the more extensive weather stations immediately. Note carefully their reports on rainfall, a reliable indicator like air pressure, temperature, humidity and some such things that have impact on your plans on the campsite. Such sets are portable and accurate, while the power they get from AA batteries.
Even though summer camping is more common, the weather factor still you cannot ignore. In many camping sites highest temperatures can reach 90s and may even go beyond that in July-August while at night they can drop down to 50s.
Since hiking is a common activity during camping, high daytime temperatures cause worries for hikers. You would need extra minerals and water, and if you take along a sports drink low in sugar content that would be helpful. You must take rest for five minutes each hour. If your dresses are in layers you can take off the clothing when temperature is high and still you can feel comfortable when the temperature drops down.
Better not move out without shirt on unless it is an open area, and even in such areas it would be advisable often to have the shirt on. It is because toxic plants, scrapes from bushes or trees or rocks make you more prone in the outdoors to quick septic. In high altitudes excessive UV exposure is a more serious threat. It is advisable that you use sunscreen on exposed skin areas and restrict to the minimum such areas.
For those who relish snow and colder temperatures, winter camping, less common though, can give them immense delight. Since deer, moose and other animals trek into lower altitudes then in search of sufficient food, chances are brighter that you would view wildlife. Since bear sightings are rare it would be a great experience to have that. To see a bear may not sound something dangerous, though the reality may be otherwise. Dangerous they can be and moreover the grizzlies view people not as playmates, but as food.
A good item that should accompany you is thermal underwear and socks of the kind that soaks up sweat yet at the same time lets in some air through the material. More comfort you would get thereby since in colder weather temperature control is of utmost importance. Not only that frostbite is really a dangerous possibility but often the damage it inflicts upon nerves and tissue is of permanent nature.
On frozen lakes, ponds and streams better not walk if your winter camping trips are scheduled in winter. It is because the ice is generally only a couple of inches thick, while the asymmetries in he crystalline structure of natural ice are quite abundant. Whimsical cracking at any moment is encountered frequently. It may so happen that the ice that appeared strong enough only ten minutes back would fail without any warning to bear your weight. Highly annoying it is and a potential danger too just like icy water pressed against your skin firmly.
For your selected location make advance planning for the season and the climate and a much more enjoyable camping will be your gain.
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