Drinking water is crucial to preventing hypothermia during your winter camping trips. What follows are some tips to help you stay properly hydrated in the winter.

Although lakes may be frozen solid, a stream or spring might still be flowing. Since low temperatures don’t kill all possible parasites, the water still needs to be boiled or filtered.
However, melting snow to water form takes time and energy, make sure you fill all your water bottles whenever you are near a running supply.

You can melt the snow over a fire or your stove. Once this gets going, start by warming some existing water in your pan. Then slowly add snow and wait til that warms up and melts. Then repeat until you have enough water. If you only start off with snow and no existing water, you will probably end up with scorched burnt water.

Also instead of putting ground snow directly into the pan, you can scoop some into garbage bags and then set them in the snow. This will result in melted water or at the worst snow that will melt very quickly when heated.

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