Tips For RV Camping In Cold Weather Part 1 - Tips, Tricks, and Fiasco's

[@valerierachal9983]

Thanks for another great video! All that snow -- oh my!

[@AdventuresInNoMadness]

LOL, it's definitely a lot of snow but I love it! Thanks as always for watching!!!

[@John-zi4ii]

Awesome information ! 😊

[@Justin-hn7wz]

Very helpful, thanks!

[@AdventuresInNoMadness]

Thanks Justin! Winter is right around the corner!

[@billcade3325]

Great video good job

[@AdventuresInNoMadness]

Thanks Bill! We appreciate your comments always!!

[@LA-oe6tz]

Getting caught up on KZbin. Enjoying your video on how to deal in cold weather. Thanks for the tip regarding hair dryer. Great info for this Californian!

[@AdventuresInNoMadness]

Thanks for watching and glad it was helpful!

[@flywiseman]

Well done Ladies. Great vid

[@AdventuresInNoMadness]

Thanks so much Kirby! We appreciate you watching!

[@brucejohnson1264]

Seems like a composting toilet is a pretty attractive option for winter camping.

[@AdventuresInNoMadness]

It can be.

[@augustcalderaro3797]

Thank you for sharing, great information!

[@AdventuresInNoMadness]

Thanks as always for watching August!!!

[@AdventuresInNoMadness]

August where are you?! I miss seeing you on here!!!

[@augustcalderaro3797]

@@AdventuresInNoMadness bless you guys! I have been so sick feeling like this is the end. Trying to get better still fits xxv big up condo to sell just been too damn cold which I know you know what I am talking about. I have not been doing much on the computer. I pray you both are doing well staying safe and healthy.

[@AdventuresInNoMadness]

@@augustcalderaro3797 I’m so sorry August and I truly hope you start feeling better!! I started to worry about you when I didn’t see on here for a while. Sending lots of hugs and healing thoughts!

[@augustcalderaro3797]

@@AdventuresInNoMadness thank you from the bottom of my heart, Love you guys so much. With that I wish to you both a very Happy Valentine's Day! Enjoy in giving thanks and Love for each othet!!!! Thanks for the hugs!

[@ADefenestrator]

Antifreeze was probably enough to prevent bursting, but not to keep it from solidifying. Quick trick for stuck black tank, if your gray is either not frozen or empty. Put a sewer hose on and cap the other end. Put the full water heater worth of water into the black tank if there's room, then another round of water heater full into the gray. Open the gray valve to fill the sewer hose with hot water, close the gray valve, open the black valve, and lift the sewer hose so the hot water goes up against the black tank valve. I'm 1 for 1 on that working for me in a similar situation (though more like low single digits in a 19)

[@aldec4618]

RV & Marine antifreeze actually does freeze but it doesn’t expand.

[@AdventuresInNoMadness]

Thanks so much for the tip!!!!

[@thepdc6220]

Ok, I didn’t think I’d like the video when I clicked on it but you actually did a great job. Thanks for the information.

[@AdventuresInNoMadness]

Glad you liked it!

[@jamesbaldwin7676]

Does the trailer still have wheels? Even the birds go south for the Winter. You were in Mexico. When was that, the Summer? The whole point of buying a bedroom on wheels and being a vagabond, is to follow the sun. As far as the toilet is concerned, did you considered the composting head option?

[@AdventuresInNoMadness]

Hi James, thanks for commenting! That photo was taken last winter and yes it still had wheels, just obscured by all that snow!! We were in Mexico January through April of this year. When we bought our Escape the composting toilet wasn't an option but I'm actually glad we don't have it

[@Mmmyess]

Interesting! I appreciate your complete honesty about natural body functions. My main take-away is: Alaska is not for me. lol I'm a pretty hardy individual, but I just can't see voluntarily subjecting myself to that kind of cold. My time in Fargo was enough! Thanks for the video.

[@AdventuresInNoMadness]

LOL...I'm thinking Fargo is as cold as Alaska a good part of the time! Thanks for the comment and for watching, we appreciate it!

[@erikchristensen6701]

You said you go through propane every 3-5 days in the cold conditions. Is that all four 5 gallon tanks or just one tank every 3-5 days?

[@36PawsPNWC]

Great job!!! Perfect timing fir us who are presently considering what & how to augment our presently energy needs in our trailer! Thank you & blessings on your holiday season. I look forward to seeing you two in Alaska in the near future! 👏👏👏🙏🏽

[@AdventuresInNoMadness]

Thanks Mirna! Hope to see you in Alaska as well!!

[@thepdc6220]

Might want to add that the buddy heater puts off a lot of moisture. The wave5 catalytic Heater is a step above those buddy heaters

[@AdventuresInNoMadness]

You are right, anything burning propane does add moisture. Thanks for the added information, it is much appreciated!

[@alphanation368]

I wanna live full time in one of these but i live in northern alberta and we get -40c winters here

[@AdventuresInNoMadness]

That's definitely a little too cold to live in one of these! Of course at -40 any trailer is too cold to live in !

[@garthwheeler1338]

Have you considered changing your factory original analogue thermostat to a digital thermostat? Digital thermostats are much more accurate, i.e. 2 degree +/- variation from the set temperature!

[@AdventuresInNoMadness]

Eventually we might do something like that. Thanks for the suggestion!

[@crk140]

Why do you want to upgrade your batteries ? I'm thinking of getting an escape and don't want to spend the money on the lithium batteries unless I need to

[@AdventuresInNoMadness]

Hi Richard. We want to upgrade to lithium since we are full timers and the extra battery capacity is important to us. With lead acid and AGM's you can only draw the batteries down to 50%. With lithium you can draw them down to 10%. We dry camp about 90% of the time so it makes a huge difference!!

[@crk140]

@@AdventuresInNoMadness thanks

[@TappaJ123]

Great video Ladies! Questions-Would 2 100ah Lithium batteries have helped your available power? 2. Would boiling some water and flushing it into the toilet helped thaw the black tank to drain it? Thanks for a great video; we camp every month for a weekend, so this was great info. :)

[@AdventuresInNoMadness]

Hi and thanks for watching! All the batteries in the world can't make up for lack of daylight and sun to hit the solar panels to charge them. That being said, we will be upgrading our battery and solar system. Boiling water probably would have worked but it would have taken more time than we had in the moment.

[@solitudeinthewild82]

Great video, my friend! Great winter camp! Enjoyed watching, your and bushcraft skills are terrific! And the surrounding nature is amazing. Cheers from Russia, , and welcome to my channel about special Russian bushcraft tips and hacks! Cheers, Yuriy!

[@AdventuresInNoMadness]

Hey Yuriy! Thanks for watching! I just checked out your channel and it’s awesome!!!

[@PaulyVeee]

So the tank heaters, that came with the Escape didn’t help?

[@AdventuresInNoMadness]

Hi Paul, as we said in the video the tank heaters are great if you have full hookups. They are a drain on the battery if you don't. We have really no solar here in the winter to help keep our batteries charged up so we were relying on the generator and we don't run that overnight. The tank heaters definitely help if you either have electric hookups or lots of batter power.

[@jotsingh8917]

Compost toilet will solve the problem.

[@AdventuresInNoMadness]

@@jotsingh8917 there’s downsides to composting toilets too. For that situation it wouldn’t have been ideal. Our rv was very cold during that period and composting toilets work best with temps over 65F or so. Plus with no power hookup and very little sun to charge up our batteries the fan needed for the composting toilet would have drained our batteries faster