Rick, What I found interesting about the deep winter campers is that none of you guys seem to be trying to do it UL. Everyone has a pulk with either skis or snowshoes and are much more interested in comfort and warmth than trying to survive with minimal gear, which in that weather is probably a bad idea in the first place.

No alcohol stoves at those temperatures. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

It sounded like from a couple of posts that you could take the train to Northern Ontario and it would drop you off somewhere with your gear and then you'd go off from there. Is that right?

We could do that in New Zealand-take the train to Arthur's Pass and get off before town and head off down a track to a hut. The engineer would stop the train for us, then pick us up on the way back.