Jennifer and I have been enjoying the RV Lifestyle now for over nine years and there hasn't been a single winter in that time that we haven't used our RV to camp in the cold and snow, enjoying a myriad of outdoor activities, no matter how cold it has been.

How cold has it been, you ask?

Would you believe -27F? You read that right. Minus 21… 21 below zero. 

And that was the actual thermometer reading. But with a stiff northwest wind, the feels-like windchill temperature was more than 50 below.

We were up on the north Superior shore in Minnesota doing a story on the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon, a 400-mile route from Duluth to the Canadian border. 

We were in our Class B van at the time, camped out at a spot where the musher's trail crosses County Road 8 northeast of the tiny, remote hamlet of Finland, MN, about 85 miles into the grueling race and smack dab in the middle of absolutely nowhere.

The snow was so beautiful, three feet deep off the trail. At night, the stars were so bright and close that they made you gasp. Like the cold.

And then there was a wolf