Postby ConnieD » Sun Feb 26, 2012 11:11 am
In Montana dry-cold, if there is no wind -20 F isn't bad if I am walking. For sleep, I want to be warm inside my "cocoon".
I dress differently at 20 F, -5 F, and -20 F. Is Shug wearing the same clothing and same layers, only warmer socks?
Huh?
Only about 2 F difference under that hammock tarp?
If he had "hammock doors" would it be any warmer?
It seems to me that type tarp is only for keeping off rain or wet snow.
Do you think alcohol is consumed at that "social hang"?
I feel more difference than that "ground-sleeping" on a sleeping pad inside a tarp. I get the tarp more "buttoned-down" than he has it there, or, I have a reflective warming fire. I feel the same about "ground-sleeping" on a sleeping pad in a tent, however I prefer the tarp because I can have a reflective warming fire.
If not, I'd rather be inside properly built snow cave.
I admit, I have been warm in my Choinard PeaPod hammock and Sierra Designs 300 "Perfect" around the outside with a Cascade Designs ThermaRest pad inside the hammock. I thought it was, maybe -20 F. I know it was in that minus temperatures zone because of the "crackin' snow" sound of the snow when you step on it. It could also be described as squeeking snow steps. However, it is "crackin snow" because if you don't have cold-weather boots, the soles of the boots will crack to pieces the first time you step on the snow in your boots.
I didn't have a max-min thermometer in those days.
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ConnieD on Sun Feb 26, 2012 12:20 pm, edited 1 time in total.