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Originally Posted by LisaJohn
Can you even feel the difference between -17 and -28?
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I have done a lot of camping and skiing in conditions down to about -20 F, maybe -25 a time or two. The "general wisdom" among the folks I have done it with is that below about 0 F, the "dry bulb" temperature doesn't really matter much, that is where the wind becomes the major enemy.
I remember the last day of a XC skiing trip around 1990 where it was about -10 F, but absolutely no wind at all. We were all very well acclimated, and in the last few hours at the lodge, we were outside in jeans, shirts with quilted flannel shirts over, and no gloves or hats for about 45 minutes taking pictures in front of some HUGE snow accumulations, and I remember thinking that it was cold, but really not that bad. Add a 10 mph breeze to that scenario, and at least some of us would have gotten hurt. Seriously.