Although its most certainly not always the time of the season for loving, you can rest assured that it is always the time of the season for camping. High quality 4 season tents ensure that one can always go camping no matter what the weather is saying. Some people like to camp in the warm weather when there is no fear of hypothermia or frost bite. However, there are drawbacks to only camping out in the summer weather.

For starters, summer camping is full of disease carrying bugs. Even though frost bite is not a concern in a Pennsylvania June, West Nile virus and Lyme disease certainly are. Additionally, poisonous plants are all over the place in June. Trust me, you can't enjoy your vacation when your body is riddled with the effects of Poison Ivy or Poison Oak, and don't even get me started on allergies. Dangerous animals are also a concern during winter. In the winter, bears will crawl into a hole or a cave and go to sleep. Most bears won't even bother waking up to check on humans when they are busy hibernating in the winter. However, these same bears are out foraging for food all spring, fall, and summer. A bear with newborns in tow can be very dangerous to even the toughest campers on the planet.

Most people will recognize that winter weather camping is much different than summer weather camping. In the winter you don't have to worry about bugs or plants. The only plants still living in the winter are dormant or are waiting for you to cut them down for Christmas. You'll also notice that bugs just aren't around when its cold out. I've never had to do a tick check after playing in the snow, and you probably haven't had to either.

I will admit that the cold weather season does have its shortcomings. For starters, you have to worry about freezing to death. Of course, you can easily ensure that you don't freeze to death during your adventure. Take a look at the winter weather sleeping bags, the 4 season tents, and the gloves and mittens at your local camping store and you'll have everything you need.

You'll also need to eat more during a winter camping trip. People burn many more calories when they are trying to stay warm versus trying to cool down. Nevertheless, burning some extra calories will only benefit most of the people reading this.

Locating clean drinking water can also be tough during the winter months. We all know that water is essential to all life on earth. Even in the winter, we need to drink lots of water to stay healthy. Getting clean drinking water in the winter while camping only takes a few preparations. Obviously you won't be able to quickly and easily get drinking water from a frozen lake.

In order to get clean drinking water on your winter camping trip, you might want to consider taking an ice pick on your trip or a pot to boil snow in. Attack the ice with your pick and make it yield the clean drinking water over to you.