[at-l] Trip report - a cold walk in Harriman Park

[Dwight at schneideroptics.com (Dwight Lindsey)]

Skylander:
 
I actually had fun, and would do it again . . . but as I tried to
indicate, I would so some things a bit differently.
 
Staying warmer (better bag) staying drier . . .  starting earlier . .
.
 
I'm reading every trip report I see here with interest.
 
Dwight

>>> <Bror8588@aol.com> 1/27/04 3:50:27 PM >>>

In a message dated 1/26/04 22:39:40 Eastern Standard Time,
Dwight@schneideroptics.com writes: 


I did some hiking in Harriman Park last weekend, in some pretty cold 
weather.  It wasn't my longest hike (the bar is not that high) but it 
was the coldest.   

I learned some things. 



Thanks, Dwight,  for the cccolldd trip report.  I am glad that you
tested your stuff and that I didn't have to do it.  Now that you have
found your level of comfort and have shared it with us the rest of us
will have a better idea of what to get if we venture out on a snowy,
very cold, day. 

I hope that I never have to camp out in single digit temps.  My sense
of adventure carries me outdoors and into the heat of Summer and perhaps
the nippy season in Spring and Fall.  When it falls below freezing it is
time to watch the travelogues.  Of course, there will be those foolhardy
folk who will test fate and just for the adventure of it will go out
when it gets below freezing.  Not me.   

But it is nice when someone volunteers to test equipment in extreme
conditions and then tells the rest of us what to have in our backpacking
arsenal when the weather is iffy. 

Skylander