Great shots NightOwl. I can FEEL the cold. We don't get conditions like that anywhere near my home and I really enjoy visiting places that have a climate which contrasts with ours.

Rad

Two backpacking foam pads underneath the sleeping bags--actually worked well--the snow being ice is really nearer 32 degree F rather than the temp of the air!  That's why building a snow cave shelter can be a life saver in an emergency.

In the morning there was a layer of frost from the loss of our body moisture covering the inside ceiling of the tent.

I have to admit--my bag was probably rated only to zero degree F, and I had wool long underwear on, top and bottoms, and a sweater, and two pairs of wool socks, and my down jacket over the top--I distinctly remember that it was an uncomfortably *cold* night--the first night had only dropped to about zero as there was a cloud cover--but the second night was crystal clear and the temperature dropped more!

It was a *mummy* bag--the only thing exposed was my nose and mouth--and sometimes not my nose  !

Rad

At

-20 degrees F

(that's 20

below

zero!)--yes sir--I was still *cold*!

Brian

The coldest I've ever been in was -30 degrees F--also in northern Wisconsin--my relatives are from there.  The wind was also a factor--so the the wind chill factor put the effective temperature at about -50 degrees below zero.

The car battery just had no usable juice at those temperatures.  I had to bundle up and go out in an open parking lot and remove the battery and bring it in to allow it to warm up.  That wind was *bitter* cold!

Probably took me ten minutes to disconnect the battery (wearing clunky sky cloves in a small work space) and pull it out--when I got back into the house--I had icicles hanging from my eyebrows, mustache, and nose, and all around my parka hood from the freezing of my moist breath!

Let the battery warm overnight and put it back the next morning.  I wasn't too sure it would start even then--the engine turned over so slowly because of the cold, thickened oil--but, just as the juice was dieing--it started.  

Driving home in that cold--the heater just barely could warm the inside to a comfortable level--I think the radiator's rheostat never had to open--the heater was sucking so much heat out of the radiator fluid that the regular radiator wasn't needed.

Firstly I apologize for posting as a guest despite being a member. As earlier said in one of the posts I get logged in successfully but the moment I try to reply to a thread I become a GUEST………funny strange??

Night Owl great pics & must have been an adventure worth experiencing.

I wanted to share a decade old experience of mine, where I camped at 20,000 feet plus, at temperatures going down till -45 Celsius easily. It was the Himalayas, where I & my party stayed for 6 months before coming down gradually first to 16,000 & than 13,000 & lastly 6,000 feet above sea level.
A couple of us suffered Cerebral & Pulmonary edema, but we all survived.

Regards!

For 6 straight months.

Regards!

Hello Night Owl,

Firstly a Happy New Year to you, Mr Christer & all the moderators & members.

It was no special occasion for such an extended experience, just a mountaineering expedition plus a med research project.

To see for the effects of high altitude, on human cardiovascular system.

We were living in artificial fibre glass igloos, wearing a Canadian manufactured high altitude kit, for protection against extremes of temperature, UV radiations etc.

Regards!

Ivanov Yezinki