Cold Temps and PU Material

[Joe Gleason]

I put up my PU to prep for a Trip.. Day was nice and sunny

[tlhdoc]

Nothing official, but if you need to fold your PU down when it is cold, run the furnace or a heater inside right up until you are ready to popdown.  This will keep the tenting as flexible as possible.

[mike4947]

A few winter tips. You won't hurt the "canvas" or the vinyl unless the temp gets below zero and you leave it unheated for at least several hours. The material gets stiff, but in 20 years of winter camping we never had any cracks.

Now there were times we had let the roof set when closing down for the material to settle so we could latch the roof catches.
 
Another tip, open the PU up now that your home. It may have seemed dry as a bone when you closed up but I can gaurantee everyone breathing in the trailer deposited a lot of moisture into the fabrics. Not a pretty site after the trailer has been in the sun a few days and you open it up to massive mildew.
 
I hear you about the tongue jack, one time we had icicles so bad on the back side we actually had to use an axe to cut the trailer loose. Three days and no one ever walked around the back (duuuuh)
Not to mention the extra propane tank we left as I couldn't see using the axe to free it up.
Next tip, bring lots of tarps. Both for over everything outside and UNDER things as well, keeps them from freezing to the ground.