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Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: Blaine County] #7046070
11/11/20 11:08 AM
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-42* F near Cold Lake, Alberta sitting in a deer stand
awaiting the arrival of Mr Big Antlers.

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Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7046075
11/11/20 11:19 AM
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- 42 in Warrensburgh, NY in 1968. Would warm up to - 30 during the day. The cold does not bother me, but the wind. Coldest I've ever been was when I went through the ice beaver trapping.
These days I'm on blood thinners and I really feel the cold, love that wood stove.

Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: Fisher Man] #7046082
11/11/20 11:26 AM
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Feb. '96 I was in central MN and woke up at 6am to my wife calling me from our home in Northern MN saying the car wouldn't start. It was -35 where I was, so I asked her how cold was it? Surprised because the car always started, -60. I told her that was God's way of telling her to stay home!

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Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7046091
11/11/20 11:46 AM
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ice fishing on Lake of the Woods in Minnesota at -35.

Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7046094
11/11/20 11:52 AM
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I used to walk to work in Fairbanks anytime it got below -35. I figured it was easier on me than the PU. I was never cold on the way. Beaver hat, mits, bunny boots and carhartt coveralls. A insulated cup of coffee and away I would go. It was about a 2 mile walk. You can dress for the cold, but its hard on vehicles.


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Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7046097
11/11/20 11:56 AM
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70 & 80’s in Fairbanks would drop to 50 below for a couple weeks several times a winter. You could count on power going out sometimes for several days.
For the first 6 years of the Quest I broke trail from Chena Hot Springs to mile 101 Steese. It was a no excuse job cause the race was on! Birch Creek was always the coldest and the track felt like it had 2X4’s across it. Rosebud was also bad when the wind would blow. Freeze flesh in a minute!”

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Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7046119
11/11/20 12:21 PM
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I remember one year at work it went down to 50-60 below for almost the whole month of January.
The hydraulics on the hi-rail truck would not work,so they sent some thinner oil which only succeeded in burning out the pump.
Luckily we had acess to a railway speeder so we could get out and change all the broken rails after each train.At that temp the older steel gets so brittle that some will snap clean after each train.
Had to do a track patrol (inspection) at those low temps before and after each train.

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Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7046127
11/11/20 12:33 PM
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Little did I know it at the time but the coldest day of my life was when my first wife said "I do"


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Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7046177
11/11/20 01:30 PM
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November 14, 1976 Attigan pass north slope of Alaska. Final tie-in we had to keep propane bottles on the bus so we could heat the bottles in the tent to preheat the pipe. The weather station at Dead Horse air strip announced the temperature was -83 F actual and the wind was at 40 knots. They said the wind chill was somewhere below 120. We were about twenty miles from camp and a couple thousand feet higher. Working at forty - fifty below was fairly common with a few minus sixties thrown in. I remember guys carving the frost on the inside of the bus windows, it was about two inches thick. I also remember thinking it was as close to being in outer space as I would ever be. Saw tempered steel break like glass. Fingers and toes still get painfully cold very quickly.


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Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7046199
11/11/20 01:48 PM
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Hunted and worked in 40 below but the coldest I've ever been was after three hours of standing chest deep in a cold lake at 8,000 feet in latex waders and only jeans underneath. I was catching 18 to 24 inch wild browns on dry flies with nobody around and stupidly fished until they stopped eating after dark. I got back to the truck barely as I was hypothermic already. I sat in the truck for two hours to feel normal.

I'd rather work in 40 below with decent gear than that.

Pete

Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7046205
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Flipped a canoe 3 miles from my vehicle while duck hunting. Learned then that canoes are not for dangerous water and why I always recommend a boat when someone on here asks about it for trapping.

Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7046206
11/11/20 02:01 PM
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I was at Happy Valley (Giggle Gulch) I believe November 1976. It was so cold that the planes weren’t flying. I got a flight to Fairbanks after New Years. Upon getting to Fairbanks we were the 19th plane waiting in line to land because of the ice fog. We circled for an hour and were next in line to land, the other planes all went on to Anchorage. All of a sudden the pilot said were cleared to land. Our flight was the only one that landed in over a couple of days. Power at home was off for a couple of days and was really cold.

Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7046233
11/11/20 02:29 PM
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I've been in negative temps many times, Northern Maine, Washington State, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota. But the coldest I have ever been was in Saudi Arabia, Jan 1991, sitting in a DFP in the middle of the desert, 40+ mph wind, 24 degrees, foggy. No thermals, just my desert BDUs. That was a long night.


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Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7046245
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Dropped my 4 wheeler though the ice on the Missouri River. Completely submerged 3 mile walk to the pickup. Wet cold and lucky to be alive. Though for sure my hands were gone.

Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7046326
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Just last winter winter we had 9 days where it was -60 or colder. My thermometer went out but some of my neighbors said it got down to -65. Machines are too difficult to get started and hard on them if you do. Spent most of the time at home putting wood on the fire.

The coldest I felt that I can remember was in August a few years ago. Went out with some guys up river on what I though was going to be a short evening hunt. Ended up going 3+ hours up got a bear and packed it out. Sweating away I thought we would make camp and spend the night. Nope back in the boat for a night ride home. I didn't have my warm clothes and not even a windshield in the boat. Clenched and loosened my muscles for the next six hours. No hot tea and no extra food for energy. Now I take plenty of warm clothes and a sleeping bag if it's not my boat.

Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: bfisch] #7046348
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Limestone Maine, 1965, radio said -54 with 45mph wind. Tried to get my friends VW bug started. Tried for about a half hour to no avail so towed it to an unheated garage and put a light in the engine compartment and a blanket over the hood. it finally started an hour later. After that, all of us that worked together would take turns starting our vehicles every hour around the clock, until the temp got back up to -25. That I believe was for about 12 days. My beer froze just walking to the car, and my cigarette went out. Took all of the fun out of it.

Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7046357
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the coldest I ever was it was not that cold and it wasn't either of the times I went through the ice


trying to get heat in the pole shed we were working on , it had just turned cold and snowing kind of a mix of freezing rain and snow , jeans and a flannel shirt felt fine when I went up the ladder, I had no intention of laying on that roof that long


hey Pete we need you on the roof to put the stack up for the Modine heater. sure I park my truck on the far side of the pole shed , toss the rope over and they tied me off to the hitch on my truck so I couldn't fall

what should have taken 20 minutes turned into about 90 that flew by and I was shaking so bad when I came down soaked through , laying on steel working on the flashing and getting it all together.

I was 16 or 17 stood in front of a salamander heater for what seemed like an hour to quit shaking and teeth chattering it may have not been that long.

as far as I know it is still holding an no leaked in over 25 years


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Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7046407
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It got to -35 here in January of 1994 and I believe that holds the record as the coldest ever recorded in KY. It also snowed 20" and was real cold for several days


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Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7046409
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On top of a long ridge in NE Wy setting fox traps. Actual temp was -36, but was about a fourty mph wind blowing out of the north constantly. That was about as cold as I've ever been. Thought I was dressed for it, but. needed more layers. Was worth it though, had quite a few fox bouncing on the trip back through there!


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Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: ] #7046417
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Originally Posted by ND FTA
Originally Posted by Machias
I've been in negative temps many times, Northern Maine, Washington State, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota. But the coldest I have ever been was in Saudi Arabia, Jan 1991, sitting in a DFP in the middle of the desert, 40+ mph wind, 24 degrees, foggy. No thermals, just my desert BDUs. That was a long night.


Originally Posted by warrior
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.


X2 on both. Born and raised in North Dakota where -30 air temp and -60 wind chill is common, but sleeping in a pup tent for a week with heavy, wet snow in Wildflecken, Germany back in December of 1989 and laying in the mud along the Saudi, Kuwaiti border a year later were about as painfully cold as it gets.


Too funny, the second coldest night of my life was outside of Spangdalem AB, Germany. Exercise Salty Demo in 1985. Set up an ambush, light rain, pretty much soaked us getting into position, then the temps bottomed out. Sooo cold, laying still, soaked to the bone until morning.


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