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Re: [at-l] Pack Weight on the AT

> Have you ever started to shiver? If so then you have.
> You don't have to be uncomfortably cold to be in danger of hypothermia.
> Most cases of hypothermia have happened in mild weather. Being wet and
> in the wind and in temp. as high as 50 have led to hypothermia.

No I haven't. I would consider shivering to be uncomfortably cold. With the
clothing and gear I carry I've never been uncomfortably cold, even in the
most extreme weather conditions you're likely to encounter on the AT during
thru-hiking season.

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