Re: Coldest you have ever been ?
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-30 with a -60 wind chill. That was in Kansas sometime in the 80's I remember that year, couldn't have told you the year, but we don't usually get much colder than 10-14 below zero. That year, it was -25 to -26 back in eastern Ks. I was pickiing up 220 conis in trail sets for coon, and got careless. By the time I got that 220 off my fingers, there wasn't any feeling left! Must be why I remember it. We used to get some mean subzero stuff when I was a kid, but it hasn't been that way for at least fifty years.
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Re: Coldest you have ever been ?
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Back on page 2, white 17 tells a bit about the Siberian High Pressure that capped interior Alaska for a couple weeks in early 1989. Yeah, it was a bit chilly. We had a local radio station, and they repeatedly reported -75F. First thing in the morning, noon, evening. Sounded like a broken record. Knowing that the temp varies a bit throughout the day/night, I walked down to the local Flight Service station. I say "Hey Jim, you are the official National Weather Service dude in these parts, and I'm calling B.S. on the temp you're giving the radio station. How can it be so static at -75F day after day, for more than a week?" His response was enlightening. "Well, our thermometers are calibrated so they're accurate. But, we only calibrate them to -75. Anything below that temp, we have to report as -75F. So officially, -75 is as low as it gets". I then asked Jim, "How cold is it really?" His response..."Minus 75F".
I did put on the snowshoes and walked across the river and harvested a few ptarmigan at -75F. That's a whole 'nother story...
Jack
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Re: Coldest you have ever been ?
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-47c ambient. -69c with the wind. Picked up 2 wolverine that day
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Re: Coldest you have ever been ?
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Standing in waist deep water for 12 hours waiting for rescue when my duck boat flipped and sank a few octobers ago.
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Re: Coldest you have ever been ?
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The coldest straight temp was ice fishing lake of the woods years ago. We were in a sleeper shack. _56. Went on a coyote calling mission to Montana about 10 years ago. At daybreak, it was _37 high for the day was _25 I think. 15 minutes of laying prone was my max. But holy crap did the coyotes come bombing in!
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Re: Coldest you have ever been ?
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I was at Happy Valley (Giggle Gulch) I believe November 1976. It was so cold that the planes weren’t flying. I got a flight to Fairbanks after New Years. Upon getting to Fairbanks we were the 19th plane waiting in line to land because of the ice fog. We circled for an hour and were next in line to land, the other planes all went on to Anchorage. All of a sudden the pilot said were cleared to land. Our flight was the only one that landed in over a couple of days. Power at home was off for a couple of days and was really cold. A or B ? I was at Happy Valley A in ‘75 workin on the river crossing. Sagwon or Scagwon I think is what they called the river. Then at the end of the season in ‘76 I was on the Happy Valley roving tie-in crew but I’m fairly sure we were based out of Toolick and sometimes Chandalar. But we did tie-ins at Galbraith lake, and Franklin bluffs as well. Interesting bit of trivia. I talked to a couple of biologists that were camped on Toolick studying the lake trout. They told me that the lakers in that lake were the biggest of any they had catalogued/surveyed in any of the lakes on the slope. And according to the annular rings on their scales there were fish in there that were alive when George Washington was alive. And that except for the zooplankton and insects the fry ate the lake had only lake trout in it and was a closed canabalistic ecosystem.
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Re: Coldest you have ever been ?
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Interesting bit of trivia. I talked to a couple of biologists that were camped on Toolick studying the lake trout. They told me that the lakers in that lake were the biggest of any they had catalogued/surveyed in any of the lakes on the slope. And according to the annular rings on their scales there were fish in there that were alive when George Washington was alive. And that except for the zooplankton and insects the fry ate the lake had only lake trout in it and was a closed canabalistic ecosystem. That is interesting!
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Re: Coldest you have ever been ?
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I worked on the crew setting Atco's at B lived in A. My crew was from Barrow. Great food. The night mechanic was catching fox just walking down the creek. You right Sagwon River. That was where they had a push cat to push the trucks up from the river onto the shelf and was called the Ice Cut. There are HUGE lakers in a lot of the Brooks Range lakes. I am not positive about the year though. No pictures or diary just worked no time for that. I had some 20 hour days!
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Re: Coldest you have ever been ?
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Negative 40s in the early 60s in northern Idaho. I was just a kid but I remember helping dad do chores. My brother and my bedroom was unheated but we had a bunch of quilts. Only heat in the house was a wood stove in the living room. The door to our bedroom was shut at night to keep the heat in the main house so the water pipes wouldn't freeze. I don't remember it being uncomfortable.
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Re: Coldest you have ever been ?
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Tok Alaska 2004 about this time of year it was -42°. Drove to Fairbanks got on a plane to Anchorage and flew back to a balmy 42° Nebraska... loved it there though
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Re: Coldest you have ever been ?
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Good clothing in layers Grandpa.If you're working in the cold,peel off the layers when working so you can get the good of them when you stop.If you are not moving in the cold fur is what you want to be wearing.Same if it is cold and strong wind-wear fur. It takes a couple weeks to get acclimatized once the weather dips down low.Then it is no different than any other time of year.Sweating in the cold weather is what makes you feel cold. Some people have problems with cold feet and cold toes.it is because they strangle their feet with too much heavy socks-their feet sweat and then get cold. Best way to keep feet warm in winter is get a good pair of insulated boots one size larger than your regular size,and just one pair of thin socks.-Feet will never get cold.
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