slparker wrote:@ Moondog - In the snow I use the abundance of snow as a windshield - works a treat to pack snow around your cookset or build a shelf in a snow wall around the tent.
I have tried Ti foil and found it just annoying and difficult to set up a system using bulldog clips and whatever to try and hold it in place. I've given that up now ( as well as foil/flashing combos which just fall over or blow ove rin the wind) and use a combo of a soto amicus and my pack, on its side and propped up with a rock, as a windshield.
I agree with using snow to build a wall around your cooking area. This would be the suggestion of many people snow camping in preference to the annoyances of keeping windfoils in place!
Building a snow wall for protection of the tent and for shielding the cooking area was a skill shown to me on my first ski-touring overnight trip in July 1991 from Hotham to JB Plain (camping at the hut, but tenting in the snow). Using a snow shovel and following the example of the tour leader, small blocks were created out of the snow and fashioned into a curved windbreak, the largest for the entire group around 3m from one end to the other! The two trip leaders were very experienced and got the job done quite quickly. Skis were used to flatten the top of the wall as a suitable storage place. Within one of the walls near the end were four holes punched with bottles of VB — cold beer...in the snow...whodathought...!
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