So my wife and I are planning on doing a winter summit of some of the peaks around the Pemi Wilderness in NH for my birthday in February - being the good husband that I am (and looking for excuses to get out into the woods and play with some new gear) I "volunteered" to go out last weekend for a solo night and scout things out. Temps were supposed to get to low single digits.
Got off to a late start and ended up getting to camp around 1PM - it was about 20° during the hike in - and stayed as high as 15° at about 5PM. Then the sun went down. The sky was crystal clear and temps plummeted - by 7:30PM it had dropped to 4°. At this point I was pretty sure the forecast was going to be off by a few degrees... I went to bed shortly after that, clipped my thermometer to my ridgeline and fell asleep. Woke up at about 4 in the am and saw -4.8° - not sure what the temps were outside my tarp, but suspect that they were a few degrees cooler.
It was a new low temp for me, and a good test of some 0° quilts that I have taken out before, but never below 10° or so - I slept toasty warm in just a wool base layer top, my lucky fleece penguin PJs and a single pair of wool socks. I had a hot Nalgene that I slept with - provided me with some heat and some liquid water in the morning.
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