OK, I got to test my gear last night. It only got down to 24 last night, but there was quite a bit of wind.
I did sort of cheat, I had double underquilts last night.
My set up from a cross section view:
13.5 x 10 tarp
Hammock sock
Ray Way over quilt
ME
Hybred hammock
Patomic underquilt
JRB No sniv.
Hammock sock
The ground
I was wearing all mentioned in my previous post plus a small thinsulite vest & a 2nd pair of wool socks. About midnight I took the gloves off & put them inside my fleece vest, The "Shug wrist warmers" did fine by themself keeping my hands warm.
I used my sit pad on the ground to stand on if needed, never really needed it.
The only time I got "cold" was the couple of times I found myself without an over quilt, aparently I got too hot & threw it off.
I did have a bit of a problem setting up, the ground was (& is) FROZEN*. So, after bending one stake beyond use, I had to tie off to firewood.
*The ground is so frozen, the local cemetarys are using jack hammers to dig graves "What usually takes us 30 minutes to dig, now is taking 3 hrs."
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