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Originally Posted by URY914 (Post 10724321)

Going to be 70 today. Sorry.SmileWavy

Talk to me in 6 months.
No bugs, snakes, or gators here today. I like the change of seasons.

^^^ Ok...trying to understand what that is in your first pic.?

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Originally Posted by stevej37 (Post 10724976)

^^^ Ok...trying to understand what that is in your first pic.?

One of the statues on UAA Campus.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1579487009.jpg

I see....at first I thought it was some sort of mythical Alaskan creature. :eek:
kinda like a version of a WI hodag!

Coldest weather I've been in is -5F Toas, NM, a bit windy. Had I not known, I would have guessed it was just below freezing, maybe 25F. I'll damn sure let you know when it gets too hot.

Texas.

The coldest I've been out in as far as mountaineering is concerned was 5 deg. F at an altitude of 11K ft. during the winter in the Sierras. I prefer to live where the climate is more temperate than places in the north U.S./Canada/Alaska. It's too restrictive for me.

Having lived in MN and IA, I’ve been in some damn cold weather....

Cold weather is nice to visit, as I am in North GA today and the temp is around 20f or so. But in a few days I'll be back home in the warmer weather.
I was hunting in the mts. of CO several years ago the it got so cold the stuff in the ice chest froze. Raw eggs were like hard broiled eggs when I tried to fry them. TO damn cold.

Finishing off this ship

^^^ Those door/cargo covers are huge!
They must add a lot of weight to the ship.

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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins (Post 10724580)

The coldest place I have ever been is Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. We were originally scheduled to be there in January but, thank God, we got delayed a month. It was dipping down to almost -20 F at night, and "warming up" to 10 F when we first arrived. In the little over a month we were there, night time lows rose above zero, and daytime highs approached the mid 20's most of the time.

Why anyone lives there is beyond me. I live in the Pacific Northwest. Settlers stopped here when they saw green, verdant valleys and a good climate in which they could farm and make a go of it. The fact that they ran into another ocean was incentive to stop as well.

Ulaanbaatar has none of that. It's nowhere near an ocean that would have stopped them either. So I asked one of the engineers I was working with, a young man who had left to get his education in the U.K., and had returned. I asked him who the dumb SOB was who first stopped there and thought "this is everything I've been looking for...".

He said it didn't quite go like that. It was more a case of Ulaanbaatar was more or less where the Chinese (and others) finally got too damn cold to keep chasing them, and had the good sense to turn around. Then they built that damn wall to make sure they never came back.

So, yeah, we missed the worst - it can hit -30 to -40 F there in January. And this is a big city - 1.3 million of 'em. How a big city continues to function at those temperatures escapes me. I'm glad I didn't have to find out.

Here I am at the Chingus Kahn Memorial on a bluebird 20 degree day:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1579458264.jpg

I spent a week there a few years back. Amazing city and surrounding area. Got to spend a lot of time with their civil/mil leaders. It was cold, but not too cold.

That photo looks like it's cold enough that plants don't hardly grow.

There are actually some pretty heavily forested areas. Their main source of heat remains firewood.

I caught this guy crossing a river one afternoon when we took a day off. A couple of the engineers and mechanics took us out about 150 km from Ulaanbaatar for a little picnic in the wilderness.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1579571295.jpg

For the most part, however, the place looks pretty much like a construction site or something pretty much everywhere you go. Very little vegetation of any kind, not even weeds.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1579571295.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1579571688.jpg

When it is -20 and below, (windchill, or not), it absolutely takes your breath away, and makes the easiest task difficult, nothing works properly, and the real fear of having the car stall from fuel line freeze-up, or not starting at all.

You just can't be outside for very long without numb fingers, and nose.

The REAL pain comes indoors trying to thaw out, while running warm water over your hands.

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Originally Posted by ckelly78z (Post 10726429)

The REAL pain comes indoors trying to thaw out, while running warm water over your hands.

As a kid, playing outside in the snow, I remember toes getting numb and then putting them near the radiator when you got inside. It was pretty painful as they warmed up.

It wasn't THAT cold (probably usually 20-35*F), but boots weren't waterproof and feet and socks would end up soaked and cold.

We used to live in Hawaii. It was likely 1969 or so that Hawaii had a cold snap, and it got down to 59 degrees. Now everyone scoffs at that as cold, but imagine everyplace you can go is 59 and no one owns blankets or has a heater in the house. We were cold, and we had a car we had brought with us from the mainland so it had a heater. We would go ride around in the car to warm up. Most cars there had no heaters. The houses have single wall construction and are designed to have flow through air to stay cool, not warm.

The locals all dressed up like Nanook of the north, and had on many layers.

Sit is a house at 59 degrees and tell me that is not uncomfortable cold. No big deal if you have a thick sweatshirt and long underwear. Not many in Hawaii have that gear.