New Cold Temp Record!!!!

**NickoftheWoods** · 12-30-2013, 19:50

I spent the last 2 nights camping out in northern WI for what was originally scheduled to be the new years/birthday hang

. This turned out to be a solo trip and cold one at that

. With the recent cold snap, I picked up a special digital thermometer designed to record temps as low as -50. I thought there might be a shot at breaking my old personal record. Not only did I beat my own record but I think I beat Shugs too and I got the photos to show it! I also looked up the local temp for the area and it verifies my thermometers accuracy. The night time temp I got was -26.3F and the temp when I got out of bed around 7am was still -25F

Since Hikingdad wasn't there to loan me his 50 degree UQ like our trip a couple weeks ago, I just camped without quilts

here is a link to see my (very simple)set up for this extreme cold trip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kagY...ThvYeJLB3viCbw

for comparison, here is an entertaining video of my set up with hikingdad and snipen from 2 weeks ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeLA_KsPaKU

**CamoEvo** · 12-30-2013, 19:58

Nice! I hope you still have all your appendages.

**NickoftheWoods** · 12-30-2013, 20:05

Originally Posted by CamoEvo

Nice! I hope you still have all your appendages.

The first night was +25 and perfect but I got a bit chilled in the am. The second night when it dropped to -26 I added a piece of reflectix under me and problem solved. I slept even better the second night. The coldest I felt was in my feet while taking everything down. I have cheap boots with liners that have almost completely burned up.

**Floridahanger** · 12-30-2013, 20:13

I love the pic of you holding the thermometer and ice all over the place.

Congrats to you, but Shug(and Kurt) don't have the low record. It's held by Turk, I think, or possibly Fronkey. I believe it's in the minus 30's. Either way, great for you and it's not for this Florida boy.

**12trysomething** · 12-30-2013, 20:13

Wow. Holy crap. Way to go....I think

I was concerned with a cold nose at 19* - I'm not worth chant starts now.

Congratulations for sure, I am hoping to get to 0* this coming Friday night in my backyard.

What's next for you?

**BackpackerGuy** · 12-30-2013, 20:13

Very impressive!

We're did you get your Acu-rite thermometer?

**frenchycamp** · 12-30-2013, 20:17

Nice one! So what was your insulation set up? Where you backpacking (i.e carrying your gear?)
+25º to -25º overnight!!! Wow that's a big difference.

**NickoftheWoods** · 12-30-2013, 20:19

Originally Posted by Floridahanger

I love the pic of you holding the thermometer and ice all over the place.

Congrats to you, but Shug(and Kurt) don't have the low record. It's held by Turk, I think, or possibly Fronkey. I believe it's in the minus 30's. Either way, great for you and it's not for this Florida boy.

My temp is slightly lower than Shugs -26 and as far as I know he is the only one who has photo proof of such a crazy cold temp. If you count wind chills, then Fronkey probably has it from last Winter while he was thru hiking. I have only gotten to wind chills to -35 or so. There was little wind last night but not really anything worth noting. Besides, if your tarp has doors, the wind chill probably isn't a factor.

**NickoftheWoods** · 12-30-2013, 20:24

Originally Posted by frenchycamp

Nice one! So what was your insulation set up? Where you backpacking (i.e carrying your gear?)
+25º to -25º overnight!!! Wow that's a big difference.

I just added a link to youtube showing my gear. It was a short hike, maybe 15 minutes with a pulk sled and snow shows.

Brad49426 Very impressive!
"We're did you get your Acu-rite thermometer?"

I just new people were going to want to know. Any battery operated thermometer will likely fail around 0 and many digital thermometers don't go down past -4. You just need to get a thermometer with a wired sensor. Or, you could probably get away with a non digital type but the digital one tracks the max and min temps s well.