If You Go For A Walk in - 20 °C Weather...
I have heard that it is going down to -20 °C here tonight in Toronto. For those of you who prefer Fahrenheit, please use the following equation to calculate the temperature: [°F] = [°C] × 9⁄5 + 32*.
Snow will crunch underfoot like Styrofoam, and breath will rise up in the air, hang for a moment and then descend in a frozen mist.
If you are going for a walk in the woods in this cold weather, make sure to wear good boots, a warm jacket, big mittens, a scarf, a hat, wool pants and a sweater, and bring a foam mat to sit on, your fire-lighting kit, an axe, a carbon steel fixed blade knife, a good kettle, some rope, your tarp, a liter of hot water in a Nalgene bottle, a big wool blanket, some good food - preferably a freeze-dried entree, pepperoni sticks, some flat bread and jam, and of course - your camera.
I hope I am going to go for a walk in the cold as above - but if not today, then tomorrow. Or I guess next year. Oh. Which reminds me.
Happy New Year everybody!!!
May this year bring you peace, contentment, understanding, good health and some nice camping equipment. Lots and lots.
Cheers,
Mungo
* - 20 °C = - 4 °F
3 comments:
Happy New Year to you and Spring too! Be safe on your walk in the cold.
I will always remember the night we went on a winter holiday in Muskoka and had to walk to our cabins in -35°c weather from the trucks. Felt like -40 with the humidity, I love winter. <3
Reminds of living in Montreal as a kid. We regularily went out in -20 and sometimes -30 weather to play. We were so active that we'd warm up before long and it never seemed like a big deal. Or we'd even play hockey outside. The coldest part was our toes. When you have really cold toes and you come in, and take of your skates and socks it feels like your toes are on fire. Then we'd get hot chocolate. Good memories.
Cheers and Happy New Year Mungo and Spring and the little soon-to-be Mungo also!
Yayayaya. Bah.
Yoyar.
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