At -20F don't inhale through your mouth, thats a prescription for a coughing
fit.
I was born in Caribou, Maine where the week I was born (Feb 7) it never got
above -20F. I own 85 acres up there with a little camp on it. My wife and I
always talk about going up in the winter to go snowmobiling but the camp
doesn't have any insulation in the roof or floor, at -20F I expect it'd be
MIGHTY tough to keep warm.
Oh my sleeping bag is good to -15F and I'm sure if I put it in another bag
I'd be fine its the time it takes to get up in the night and go pee I'd be
worried about...
-Curt
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Kinda like when you have to worry about the oil in your differential
freezing solid so that it physically won't move even with the engine's
power, or if you shut the door too hard your paint falls off. (:
Those are just anecdotes I've heard from people.
Personally, the coldest I've done is way north, NY (Canton area, right
next to Canada) where it periodically hits 20 below and occasionally 40
below (F). It feels cold here at 15 degrees, but at 20-40 below, it
gets to where that first inhalation walking out the door kinda hurts,
and you get an instant chill up your pantleg. And you hope your door
locks will still move. (I would have been worried about the engine
starting were I not using Mobil 1). Most people just leave their cars
running at the store when it's that cold.
So I bet I've been through colder than "most" of the typical U.S., but
I'm no where's near the worst of it. (:
Levi
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Sunil, I was USAF Director of Engineering at Sondrestrom Air Base, Grnlnd,
Feb 78-Feb 79.
Wilton
