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Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7045897
11/11/20 07:40 AM
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You southern people crack me up!

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Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: Pete in Frbks] #7045906
11/11/20 08:02 AM
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-30 to -40 wind chill guiding hunters is the coldest I can remember.

Originally Posted by Pete in Frbks
You southern people crack me up!

Pete


I’m sure we do but don’t laugh to much until you have pulled a well in the middle of a corn field in June or July down here. Air temp was 113 not sure what the heat index was and didn’t care. lol


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Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7045918
11/11/20 08:11 AM
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Me and a buddy tipped a canoe and got dumped into an icy beaver pond. There was a quarter-inch of ice on the surface that had formed overnight and we were using the canoe as an icebreaker to check our traps (dumb, I know).

We were able to get to shallow water and get the canoe righted and then back to shore. I had hip boots on that filled with water. My legs went completely numb, like walking on two wooden stumps.


Eh...wot?

Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7045920
11/11/20 08:13 AM
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-30 to -35 for 2 weeks laying on my back on the ice of lake Simcoe doing overhead welding on coverd dock slips for a big marina. The wind blowing off the ice and never getting sunlight was brutal, plus being young and broke i never owned any warm clothes. i dint think i thawed out till spring.

Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7045924
11/11/20 08:16 AM
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-30 with a -60 wind chill. That was in Kansas sometime in the 80's


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Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7045926
11/11/20 08:18 AM
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I checked the weather before going on a 4 day weekend hunting trip. The weather was wrong. I didn't bring the proper sleeping bag. I after the first day I couldn't find dry wood. I've been in colder Temps but with proper gear. It only got down to the single digits but I was cold, hungry and miserable. I was too hard headed to call it quits too.

Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: Nessmuck] #7045928
11/11/20 08:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Nessmuck
Ice fishing in Pittsburg NH....-45 on the thermometer.....not a stitch of wind..thank God.


But it was a dry cold......

Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7045929
11/11/20 08:23 AM
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-20 daytime highs, -35 at night for a couple weeks. Most typical winters here.

Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7045936
11/11/20 08:32 AM
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Been out in -50 lots of times, but the coldest I've ever been was when I ran the Yukon Quest dog race. The temps dropped when I crossed over into Alaska and although I dont know how cold it was, I know it was brutal. The stretch of trail along Birch creek was the worse. Saw -65 in Fairbanks one winter too.


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Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7045959
11/11/20 08:57 AM
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December 88

This southern boy had been flown into Frankfurt Airport on Thanksgiving Day .After a few days of processing I get to my unit in Grafenwohr just in time to be issued gear for a winter training exercise and loaded up to go to the woods.
There was a foot of snow on the ground and it was an iffy thing just getting to the training area. Being as new and green as they come I was assigned to fetch and tote tents, cots and such. During the course of this while toting an armload of cots in the dark I managed to walk out onto snow covered ice hiding a really deep rut. Deep enough to soak me to my belly when I broke through.
Even though I reported this to the NCO in charge work still carried on and only by keeping moving was I able to continue. Somewhere early in the AM I was finally told to hit the sack. It was when I stripped down and started wringing out my drawers that the NCO realized I wasn't just a slacker.

I know not Alaska cold, but for an Alabama boy it was quite the shock.


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Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7045967
11/11/20 09:01 AM
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The coldest I’ve ever been....happened every winter in the mine. You would work 10 hours in a wet loading section, crawling in foot deep water with water pouring out of the roof. The underground temperature was 55 F. Doesn’t sound to bad? Wait till you have to drive out in intake air course, with 100,00 CFM of 0 degree air hitting you while you’re going 15 mph against the air current. Your wet clothes freeze solid in seconds, and your skin looses all feeling.

Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7045995
11/11/20 09:36 AM
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January 27 1989. The thermometer read minus 82 F We had several days right around that temperature but that was the lowest. Folks who had oil heat were SOL because the oil would not flow. They had to move in with families who heated with wood.


One guy tried to remove the felt filter from his oil line. Lost all his fingers in less than two minutes

No incoming air freight or mail because it was too cold to fly. They even closed the school

Only one vehicle in town would run and the owner kept it going for 12 days.


I think Paul was in Fairbanks at that time. Pete too probably

It was darned inconvenient !


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Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7046005
11/11/20 09:54 AM
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Operation Jack Frost , January ‘76. Yukon stove with a 55 gallon drum of Mo Gas perched outside the tent was a lifesaver !

Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7046009
11/11/20 09:59 AM
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A customer of mine called and asked that I come out and fix the water well in the bull pasture if I remember correctly it was around -45 with out wind chill added .
Thankfully I only had to break loose 3 joints of pipe with two 24" offset pipe wrenches, when the water started spraying all over it would hit my coat and fall off because it was already frozen .
I went through 24 pairs of cotton chore gloves in a hurry !

The winter of 1968 -69 in Wolf Point was brutally cold also when it warmed up to zero people were running around in tee shirts because it was to warm out compared to what it had been ! There was many days around -40 / -60 without wind chill
Allan


Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: white17] #7046010
11/11/20 09:59 AM
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Originally Posted by white17
January 27 1989. The thermometer read minus 82 F We had several days right around that temperature but that was the lowest. Folks who had oil heat were SOL because the oil would not flow. They had to move in with families who heated with wood.


One guy tried to remove the felt filter from his oil line. Lost all his fingers in less than two minutes

No incoming air freight or mail because it was too cold to fly. They even closed the school

Only one vehicle in town would run and the owner kept it going for 12 days.


I think Paul was in Fairbanks at that time. Pete too probably

It was darned inconvenient !



You win.

Coldest I've seen is -45 F straight temp. Visiting Cass Lake Mn.

Coldest I've played outside in is -30 F straight temp. Ice Fishing north of Sudbury, ONT




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Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7046018
11/11/20 10:05 AM
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You know it’s cold when you drill a hole ..for ice fishing....and steam comes out..


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Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7046050
11/11/20 10:39 AM
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The coldest I have ever been was a winter camping trip in boyscouts. Went to Lake George CO. Scouts have an acreage there. My sleeping bag on that trip was a WWII army surplus mummy bag with feathers in it. I slept on the floor of a tent. It was hours before sunup when me and several others built a fire and sat around it waiting for morning. I don't know what the temperature was but it was bad cold. I don't think anybody slept much that night.

Got cold enough a few years ago on a trapping adventure to WY the cooking oil froze. Pickup battery was dead. Had to push start it. I have peeled frozen eggs to thaw in a skillet many times but only had cooking oil freeze that one time. I slept fine. Learned back in those boy scout days that you need a warm sleeping system. When I got up it was a bit chilly though.


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Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: white17] #7046055
11/11/20 10:44 AM
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Originally Posted by white17
January 27 1989. The thermometer read minus 82 F We had several days right around that temperature but that was the lowest. Folks who had oil heat were SOL because the oil would not flow. They had to move in with families who heated with wood.


One guy tried to remove the felt filter from his oil line. Lost all his fingers in less than two minutes

No incoming air freight or mail because it was too cold to fly. They even closed the school

Only one vehicle in town would run and the owner kept it going for 12 days.


I think Paul was in Fairbanks at that time. Pete too probably

It was darned inconvenient !


I was in North Pole. It did get a mite chilly for about a two week spell. I've shown it before - here's what my outdoor thermometer looked like on January 30, 1989.

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Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7046063
11/11/20 10:58 AM
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I've been in -42, but it was totally clear and calm. We bundled up and took a hike and we were fine. Your feet don't slip and slide on snow and ice when its 42 below

Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7046066
11/11/20 11:01 AM
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Minot, North Dakota. -40s. It was brutal.

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