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Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7049545
11/14/20 11:00 AM
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not the coldest, but real close for me was in the 90's rat trapping.

I had a real narrow and shallow 16' boat that I was push poling around a slough. The beaver had cut some of the brush off just under where the water line was.

In the teens that morning and a light covering of ice I was breaking through with the boat. Hit one of those stobbs and it sent me out of the boat, about neck deep in water. I got to the shoreline and tried to decide whether to get a fire going or cut across an open field to me truck. It was over 1/4 mile easily. My hands had already started getting stiff so I headed for the truck. The wind wasn't much but when I got to the high part of that field I thought I had made a mistake.

Luckily the land owners wife had seen me fall so she headed out in her truck to get me. Which she did. Took me to their house and let me sit in front of their fireplace. All was good until she told me to get in the shower and she would find some of her husbands clothes for me to change into. LOL

I knew her husband well enough to know if he came in and found me in his clothes, I would be cold for eternity.

Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7049551
11/14/20 11:05 AM
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I can’t remember THE coldest. They started to all blend together. The worst have been on days with 31’ish degrees and 100% humidity facing wind.


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Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7049725
11/14/20 02:28 PM
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When I got put on blood thinners....LOL

Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7049765
11/14/20 03:49 PM
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Last vikings game outdoors, i froze 8 toes

Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7049896
11/14/20 07:02 PM
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When Newt and I got ship wrecked a few years back I dont wish to be that cold ever again in an Atlantic ocean bay.

Soaking and treading water in 38-41 degree water would have done us in before the sun set that day I am sure.

Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: Bob Jameson] #7049918
11/14/20 07:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Bob Jameson
When Newt and I got ship wrecked a few years back I dont wish to be that cold ever again in an Atlantic ocean bay.

Soaking and treading water in 38-41 degree water would have done us in before the sun set that day I am sure.


An amazing story of survival. Glad you guys made it.


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Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: Rimrock1] #7050291
11/15/20 12:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Rimrock1
I duck hunted at -24. My dog didn't act too happy about retrieving.


Dont do that to your dogs


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Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7050314
11/15/20 01:41 AM
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I hate the cold. I had to change a flat tire in -2° with a significant windchill.
Glad I am a mechanic with experience working in a tire shop. I changed that tire in just over 2 mins. I just chucked everything in the bed of my P/U when done.

Cold sucks , I get just cringes reading these threads.


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Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7050360
11/15/20 06:51 AM
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I had an ingrown hair or some sort of massive pimple on the back of my head. Was sore for days. I get out of the shower one morning and go outside. When my skin tightened from the cold that sucker exploded. The ooze then froze to my hair. Walking back to the house I was able to peel the whole thing off.

Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: Pike River] #7050366
11/15/20 06:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Pike River
I had an ingrown hair or some sort of massive pimple on the back of my head. Was sore for days. I get out of the shower one morning and go outside. When my skin tightened from the cold that sucker exploded. The ooze then froze to my hair. Walking back to the house I was able to peel the whole thing off.


Thank you Pike. That mental image you provided just made my morning's cup of coffee extra special...

Jack


Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7050381
11/15/20 07:53 AM
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been through the ice 6 times.
they're all pretty equally cold.

Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: Gulo] #7050389
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Originally Posted by Gulo
Originally Posted by Pike River
I had an ingrown hair or some sort of massive pimple on the back of my head. Was sore for days. I get out of the shower one morning and go outside. When my skin tightened from the cold that sucker exploded. The ooze then froze to my hair. Walking back to the house I was able to peel the whole thing off.


Thank you Pike. That mental image you provided just made my morning's cup of coffee extra special...

Jack

Enjoy your eggs.

Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7051128
11/15/20 08:32 PM
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While the temperatures were no where near as cold as some of you all have been exposed to, my coldest experience occurred at 35 degrees. We were driving a large swamp for bears when it started to rain. We were all soaked by the time we got back to the truck. The 5 minute ride in the back of a F150 at 55 mph was brutal. I swear it took me a half hour just to get out of those wet clothes.

Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7051233
11/15/20 09:44 PM
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Not the coldest ambient temperature or even the worst windchill.
Thanksgiving day 1990 my company loaded our equipment on the railhead at Ft.McCoy .
Teens and single digits , cold steel objects and no place to go to get warm for 36 hours.
The most heat you got was from the coffee or soup from the mermites .


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Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: dkrug] #7051330
11/15/20 10:57 PM
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Sitting standby diver in Puget Sound, Wa. Surface temp was 34-36 Deg F. I started to get hypothermic in the rain, OIC didn't believe me. I thought my skin was crawling.


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Re: Coldest you have ever been ? [Re: 330-Trapper] #7051332
11/15/20 10:58 PM
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Wind chill -107 in mn back about Jan in 1982 or 83. I was on my way to St Paul for a dinner meeting and it was called off. I was driving a 1981 Chev El Camino. Not a winter vehicle.

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