When I was a kid, we called days of intense snow and cold winter. Now, we call it Polar Vortex, and it’s weeks in advance, and feels like a military invasion by Canada, with Gib and Mo flying ahead in blimps, towing the rude SOB behind them laughing.
I don’t want the polar vortex, or winter. I was promised by Al Gore that if I didn’t feed cows garlic, the snow would go away. He lied, it still comes.
Fuck Snow, and fuck you menacing Polar Vortex. Just once, I want to see winter fail and all the Polar Bears drown from the ice dissapearing. A lot of prides, no results. Gotta take the trash out now, it’s cold. Polar Vortex isn’t even here yet, still cold.
We’re meant to catch the polar winds here this week, but it’s not bad inside, but I haven’t been out today… yet
The weather was awful pre-global warming (snowed-in in our homes, school closed for days, trudging through a foot of snow) so it’s going back to how it used to be, but the newer generations don’t know this.
Yeah, it needs to stay warm. I’ve looked over records for my area, it goes on and off in weird cycles here. During the Civil War, it snowed here in August.
None the less, Icecap is still here, winter still is a inherent evil, and Al Gore isn’t jailed in a Siberian Gulag. Won’t make me warm, but it will make me happy to see him suffer like everyone else.
Its 7 here (-14 C). If it gets much colder, I’ll have to shut the window. I do enjoy the breeze, so not wanting too. I have been sleeping on the floor this year, don’t remember the bed getting this cold, when I lay down, it feels frozen, like hard ice. Toes so cold.
Tonight’s the night y’all. It’s gonna get down to 18 and I got a bag rated only to 40. One of those cheap walmart jobs, but who wants to spend more than fifty bucks on a sleeping bag.
Guess I have to break out the emergency polytronic nanofiber polartech gear and suit up before I get in he bag. 35 gram thinsulate polymonolayered membrane would be better but who has five hundred dollars for a pair of long johns?
The biggest problem is the face. In a mummy bag the hood draws all the way up to your breathing hole, so your face doesn’t freeze. Without this kind of bag, you have to keep your head in the bag… and then your breathing causes the outside of the bag to become covered in condensation. so the bag gets wet.
Tonight I will exercise a breathing technique that slows my metabolism to half, lowers my heart rate forty percent and induces a hyperhibernative state… something I Iearned in SEAL training while I was in the air force while in the army.
Go spend a few bucks on air activated hand warmers, throw one down by your feet.
Also, stick your laundry inside your bag, on top you. Lay a few shirts across your face loosely. You live in a van, so wind chill is a minor effect. Your just trying to build a warm air cushion.
You can also use newspaper, in layers.
Drink some warm soup before you sleep.
Don’t wear pants… your skin needs to touch your skin, easier to conserve heat. Limbs separated by clothing layers have to work harder to keep warm.
Also piss everything you got out, your body has to work that much harder to keep it warm when it is in you.
Good tips dude. That one about urinating before sleeping… I’m impressed. You got that out of the standard army issued survival/field manual edition 6, chapter 4 subsection b and c, right? Slow heat displacement by emptying the body of superfluous fluids and materials.
Now, about the clothing. A good set of thermals of the right material will actually assist the bag in retaining and conducting internal temperatures within the bag closer to normal body temperature, because it slows the rate of radiation. The body will generate heat faster than the bag loses it.
In the nude, body heat has less resistance against which it must pass to successfully radiate out of the bag, see.
No… I slept naked in my sleeping bag, and I had much better gear than you if I choose it. If you stick your arms inside your shirt, instead of your sleeve, shouldn’t be a issue… but pants will be. I’m very experienced in this. A sweater around both feet pressed together does wonders.
And I don’t think that is written in any cold weather manual, I was taught it in Alaska, likely came directly from the cold weather school in Black Rapids, Alaska… but then again, could of been inherited from the old Sixth Infantry Division.
But for what your bag is rated, you actually dont need anything. You might get hypothermia and find it impissible to sleep… but youll survive.
