Food/Nutrition
How much water should you drink while out camping while doing moderate activity
about half a liter per hour of moderate activity
This is when your body gets too cold to have the ability to retain heat
What is hypothermia?
These two things are needed to keep you warm while sleeping.
What are a sleeping bag with an appropriate lower-limit temperature rating and a sleeping pad?
This is how a sleeping bag works.
What is traps warm air around the sleeper?
This is why cold weather bags are mummy shaped and are fairly tight.
What were the two main materials used to make the first snowshoes?
Wood and Rawhide
Why should you avoid caffeine while winter camping?
Caffeine will make you more dehydrated
Lack of perspiration, headache, and dizziness are all signs of what?
dehydration
Fuel, heat, and oxygen are three requirements for this.
What is a fire (bonus points if you can name different types of fire stacks/builds)
These are the layers to dress in to keep warm in winter.
What are base layer, middle layer, and outer layer?
How do snowshoes keep you from falling through the snow?
By spreading out your body weight over more surface area
Should you eat some thing before you go to bed?
Yes, like hot liquids or warm foods.
These are the symptoms of mild hypothermia ( get 3 out of 6 for it to count.)
What is shivering, cold sensation, skin numbness, goose bumps, and lack of hand coordination?
If you start to feel cold what is one of the first things you put on
a hat
These are the clothes you should bring on a cold-weather camp out. Name at least three.
Bonus points for every additional valid item named
What are: hat, gloves, wool (moisture wicking) socks, underwear (moisture wicking base layer), coat/jacket, middle layer (wool, fleece), pants, boots, etc.
Explain the difference between hypothermia and hyperthermia.
What is hypothermia is when your body loses heat faster than it can produce, hyperthermia is when your body produces heat faster than it can disperse.
Do eggs freeze in the cold weather
yes
Severe hypothermia begins at this body temperature.
What is 90 degrees?
what are things you should do to reduce heat loss
Additional dry layers, increase activity, shelter
This is the primary purpose of the base layer.
Bonus points for naming two types of base layer materials.
What is to wick moisture away from your skin to help keep you warm.
Synthetics - polypropylene, nylon, rayon
Merino wool, silk
Name all of Santa's reindeer. bonus points if you can do it backwards
Santa's reindeer are named Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, and Rudolph
Bonus: rudolph, blitzen, donner, cupid, comet, vixen, prancer, dancer, and dasher
Why should you avoid candy and food high in sugar while winter camping.
Candy and other high sugar foods result in a quick release of body heat that causes your body temperature to drop below what it was originally.
What is frostbite, and name at least 3 symptoms?
Frostbite is a serious injury that occurs when the skin and tissue freeze, usually due to prolonged exposure to cold temperatures
What is numbness, hard/waxy looking skin, blistering after rewarming, clumsiness, slurred speech, blueish color of the skin?
Name three types of snow shelters
What are igloos, snow cave, snow pit, snow mound (quin-zhee)?
This is an item that can be used to make a sleeping bag warmer or increase its temperature rating.
What is a sleeping bag liner?
Should you eat yellow snow?
"shrug"