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    SURVIVING THE CANADIAN WINTER IN A VAN

    Dec 10, 2018 5 minutes
    By Dane Faurschou

    Originally, the trip was meant to be from Alaska to Argentina. Due to visa issues and a lack of time, however, my girlfriend Sara and I ended up leaving California in the middle of winter, which kind of scratched Alaska and its prohibitively cold regions off our list of places to go. We looked at Canada and were not really sure about heading there in winter, either, but we figured we could survive a temperature hovering somewhere around five degrees either side of zero. We didn’t actually count on minus 32, but hey, that’s where the thermometer ended up.

    The goal of the Canadian leg of the trip was backcountry hiking and mountain climbing. We had done a lot of this in New Zealand and Europe, but Canada looked like a whole other world. We knew it was

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