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We travel in the winter in our TM up and down the west coast. At the first sign of snow or ice in the forecast we pull in to a park with water, power and sewer and wait for roads to become completely bare before proceeding. We have been stuck for up to a week in the snow waiting to move on. Of course there is winter and there is winter. You cannot compare winter camping on the West coast in Oregon and Washington with Minnesota or Northern New York.

The big issue is keeping the snow and ice off the roof. We have a push broom that we use every few hours to keep it from building up.

Heat is not a problem, we use 2 1500 watt heaters and have a spare propane tank which we deploy to avoid having to move the dinette slide (2720SD) to get at the horizontal tanks. In addition we have made covers for the windows, vents and door out of a roll of reflective insulation with an air gap core that we bought at Home Depot. These covers slide under the curtains against the glass and make a tremendous difference in heating. The vent covers are held in place with velcro.

If it's below freezing at night we fill our water tank once a day and keep the cabinet doors open to avoid a freeze. We have not had temperatures so low that we could not dump black and grey water or had the grey water tank freeze. If we did have to deal with it, building a skirt out of insulation around the tank and plumbing and hanging a 100 watt bulb incandescent bulb for heat in the space would probably do the trick.

Our best idea was to use two single thermorest camping mattresses under the TM Queen size mattress in the rear. This is very warm and is so comfortable that we use them in all seasons now.


Peter and Martha