Wear mittens for the warmest fingers.
I live where frost bite was invented.
I belive you will be OK.
The first time you frost bite, you can feel it, like an itch or burn, after that, for the rest of your life, you wont feel the skin freezing.
If you do have a white patch on yer face or hands, toes, apply spit to it and rewarm it, applying spit a couple times. Do not refreeze it.
This keeps it from swelling and blistering.
Its a thermal injury, and the outside will darken, dry and peel, like a sunburn.
If the bites are deep, they can swell your eyes shut, or balloon a finger, etc. Those are the kind that need real help.
My wife, like most outdoorsy Eskimo, gets "freezer burn' patches on her cheeks and nose in the spring time, Riding snowgo's at 0 temps when the sun is high and bright and everything is snow. Snow blindness or frost bites from cheap sunglasses is the choice.
If you get your knees, elbows, hands a or feet Very cold or frozen, you will experience pains you never knew you could have.
I did my knees in double riding, arriving at a village at -47F and so cold I couldnd hardly walk. The pain of thawing out was the feeling of a vice crushing my knees while a .22 LR was shot through it.
My wife's uncle laughed at me and told me story's of when it happened to him, so I got empathy with no sympathy.
Like skydiving for the first time the pain gos by quick, but it seems forever and you will never forget it.
Last edited by Caribou; 03/02/22 02:42 AM.
