I have a 3000 BTU "Platimum Cat" propane heater and we have slept in it at
-5C (what ever that is in deg F, 0C = 32F).  We had the top up, wife and I
up top and our 2 year old son and our dog on the bottom.  I set the heater
to 10C and it wasn't going all night and we were comfortable.

I think this all depends on your idea of camping... I have slept out in a
snow bank with the army cadets at -25C when I was in college.  The whole
idea there was to keep it BELOW freezing as not to make it melt on us.  Of
course we had good sleeping bags and with 8 of us in a snow bank it stayed
about -3 or -4 just from the heat we produced.  Mind you this depends on
how many baked beens you had that evening!

I think I would sleep in my Westie with the top up and a 3000 BTU heater
during the spring and fall where the 5am temp will be between 0 and -5C
anything colder than that or that temprature for a longer period of time I
would want to have the top down.  With the top down I would be comfy in
there until about -10 or -15 outside depending on the sleeping bag (I have
a -5C) and if you want your stuff inside to get frozen or not.  If you are
using a "Pokemon" sleeping bag I'd be packing it in around +10C!

At 06:53 PM 16/10/2000 -0400, Richard Golen wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>Up here in the Northeast the nights are getting colder and the days
>shorter....I really don't want to call it quits as far as camping in my
>Westy goes...but neither do I want to freeze my a$$ off....
>
>Right now I have a small electric heater as well as a Black Cat heater. I'm
>not quite sure if these will be enough once the outside temp goes below 40
>degrees or so.
>
>What do you "seasoned" winter campers do to make your Westy "cozy"?
>
>Ric
>
>

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