Coldest you've ever been

[Desert Whaler]

Years ago I drove home from Kenai Alaska sleeping in the shell of my F150 2wd….. the 1st night I slept in a gas station parking lot at a place called Notthway Junction ….. got so cold I put on every piece of clothes I could fit and in my sleeping bag ….. even took the Mexican blanket off my front seat & put it over Me.

When I woke in the morning I PRAYED my truck would start. Climbed through the shell into the cab & It did ….. warmed it up & waited for the gas station to open.

Owner shows up & I go in for coffee …. He says to me… “I saw you park there last night when I was closing up & was gonna offer you a place to sleep, wind chill brought it down to -22F”….. F-Me !!!!

I think I drove over 800 miles that day trying to outrun Old Man Winter !!!!

 

[Not So Fast]

I had the mid watch lookout (4am - 8am) aboard my destroyer DD 729 which is stood outside of the main control deck (the bridge) as we sailed into the Sea of Japan. I had on every damn thing I could put on my body and yet it wasnt enough, wind was blowing also. Ive never been that cold !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[BabyRay]

The coldest I’ve been IN is -5 degrees. The coldest I’ve BEEN was delivering newspapers at 20 degrees at about 14 years old, as I tramped through snow up to my knees with an inch of frozen rain on top.

If I had to do that today, I’d definitely go total pussy!

 

[RogerThat99]

-10. I have been in 6 degrees barefoot, in jeans and a tshirt scrapping the windows of my car. Luckily no ice or snow on the asphalt.

 

[Mcob25rg]

2003, St Zenon, Quebec Canada, January 16th, -46 standing temp, we rode 300 miles that day, never been colder, and we were dressed to sled!

 

[Gramps]

colder that a witches tit in a brass bra

 

[was thatguy]

Coldest wind chill ever recorded was-100F in McGrath Alaska in 1989 and -128.6at Vostok station in Antarctica Have not seen -142 anywhere on the planet.

I have.
BP issued updates colder than -100 wind chill many times.
Doesn’t really matter what someone says the record is here or wherever. I was there.

Side note: coldest winter hunt I ever went on was a moose hunt on snow machines out of McGrath. At that time I was about 12 years old. That was the coldest I’d ever been before going to Prudhoe .
I dont remember what it was, but had to be at least -30.
Our propane liquified and all our heaters in the campers quit. I literally thought we were going to die.

 

[RIVERBORN]

Walking up hill in the snow both ways to school.

Obviously

 

[Danger Dave]

I spent a night at Mike's Sky Ranch in Baja that was the coldest I've ever been in my life. There was 5 inches of snow on the ground so the chase trucks couldn't make it up the hill with all the gear bags. 3 of us rode up and down the hill ferrying gear bags so the guests on the tour had clothes to change into. Once Mike shut the generator off it got cold, I slept in a full set of Klim gear and froze all night long. No idea on the temp but I didn't warm up again until we were almost in San Felipe.

 

[DarkHorseRacing]

-25 F early 90s at a Colorado ski resort. I recall, as someone else said, my nose hair just crisping up when I breathed. My exposed skin hurt and I was dressed in as many layers as I could as I was snow skiing. Going down wasn’t too bad but I froze my ass off on the chairlifts. Took a while to warm up when I got home.

 

[RIVERBORN]

I spent a night at Mike's Sky Ranch in Baja that was the coldest I've ever been in my life. There was 5 inches of snow on the ground so the chase trucks couldn't make it up the hill with all the gear bags. 3 of us rode up and down the hill ferrying gear bags so the guests on the tour had clothes to change into. Once Mike shut the generator off it got cold, I slept in a full set of Klim gear and froze all night long. No idea on the temp but I didn't warm up again until we were almost in San Felipe.

I was going to mention a night I spent in dumont during winter, in the dunes. There is definitely a difference between the coldest weather I’ve been in vs the coldest I’ve been. A lot of people are mentioning a number that they were probably prepared for, that’s not cold. It’s cold when u are stuck somewhere u don’t want to be and have no where to go lol. The desert can be bone chilling cold….

 

[PlanB]

Basic training. Kentucky winter. Falling out in formation in the middle of the night, and they told us we couldn’t get dressed first. It was cold as fuck. While we were outside they dumped all our lockers in a big pile in the middle of the barracks. Oh those were fun times, lol. Part of how you get broken down and built back up so you learn how to become a well oiled killing machine.

Same story. I went through in 89 in the winter. The drill sergeants would make us stand in formation in our underwear. We had several guys in my platoon that got frostbite. That experience made me fucking hate cold weather.

 

[DRYHEAT]

Wolf point Montana, -38° woke up, shivering in the back of my old Kenworth. Engine had been idling all night and registered nothing on the temperature gauge. Had to get dressed and go put cardboard from the back of my trailer to cover up the radiator and bring the engine RPMs up to 1500 RPM to generate some heat. I think it was the closest I came to possibly dying of the cold.

 

[mobldj]

on bivouac in the army sleeping in a 2 man pup tent in a snow storm in fkn missouri

 

[Go-Fly]

I was in Fargo North Dakota working on a factory rebuild and it was -47. Frost was growing on the concrete walls inside the shop. We were driving back to the hotel at 3 in the morning and all we had were light wind breakers on. All three of us flew in from Texas and didn't have time to go home and pack for the cold weather. I made the comment that if the car breaks down, we are dead in 15 minutes. Next morning we went to town and came out looking like we were going to the North Pole. The Dakota stretch is when you pull 2" of penis through 3" of clothing.

 

[buck35]

It was -5 in Leavenworth this morning I don’t remember ever coming here a year this cold. 100% coldest I’ve ever been

Welcome to the frozen hood!

 

[TomD]

The Dakota stretch is when you pull 2" of penis through 3" of clothing.

Now that's COLD!!!! LOL

 

[Go-Fly]

Now that's COLD!!!! LOL

Pee off the loading dock and it freezes before it hits the ground. Not like I ever did that.

 

[Ace in the Hole]

Welcome to the frozen hood!

lol It's been an interesting couple of days.. I saw Shawn today, I told him lets all try to meet up early next week if you are available.

The weather is messed up enough that my wife's flight was just cancelled..and it looks like she will be missing Christmas over it. This weather is nuts.

 

[SoCalDave]

Feb 2012 in Bolton, Ontario CA for the annual management meeting it was -17 with a wind chill of -38.
Fuk that...

 

[JENKS]

-35 Laramie Wyoming in the early 2000s. That taught me quick I hate Wyoming and any place similar.

 

[Justsomeguy]

-17. Fun times. As long as you are dressed for it, it's not bad. I remember hunting in the cold. Some of the best times I've had.

 

[SoCalDave]

Not mine but hot water thrown into the air at -30f. Crazy how fast it crystallizes.

 

[Ziggy]

Many times 41 below zero without wind chill. This was taken not quite two years ago on Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada and it was 41 below.

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We went to a Vodka IceBar in Sweden. They provided ankle length parkas & limited your time inside. Everything was made of ice...the bar, bar tables, even the drink glasses. Few of us "dumb Americans" decided to do a spirited toast & busted a few glasses.....vodka induced of course
Anyhow, I do think they said -10°c is what the temp was kept at.

 

[DirtyWhiteDog]

Sub 10*platt city. Missouri, kc, swapping factory short block 2.9 bronco II in January. Run propane heater for 20 minutes to get 10 minutes of work time in garage. Almost 30 years later I still have that pos motor sitting in my garage with less than 40k miles because the old lady blowed the trany.

 

[rrrr]

-27 in Glenwood Springs Colorado in college in the 80's. I worked part-time at the gas station/carwash. No car washes that day.

Down the road in Vail doing a condo conversion in 1977, which involved turning a clapped out hotel into Really Cool and Expensive Condominiums. It was -40 for 4 days. It had snowed 54" the first day, and about 20" on subsequent days. I had to tunnel out to my truck so I could start it every day.

 

[WYRD]

But it's a dry cold

 

[Ultra...Good]

Winter of 2013-2014. It was about 6 weeks that the temperature did not even go over 0. Not sure how cold it got, but it was the worst I can remember. The -30 right now is nothing compared to that.

 

[clarence]

My wife is from Wisconsin.. When we were dating we flew out in January, as soon as we went outside, I looked at her and said I might not make it and I think I will go back inside and get a flight home. It was like -15 and windy as well so the windchill it was hitting below 20. Then on the trip it there was a feaking blizzard and its dropped over a foot of snow. During said blizzard her aunt and uncle said oh we got steaks and are going to BBQ tonight. I thought they were kidding but no, they legit rolled the BBQ out, proceeded to BBQ in a blizzard, not under shelter or anything. Them midwest people are nuts.

Thirty years ago I took the girl I was dating in Key West back to Minnesota for Christmas.

She still brings it up to complain about the cold.

 

[Hardly Satisfied]

-20 when I work in the Freezer box at work

 

[PaPaG]

-4, with wind chill it was -15 hiking for about 5 hours in the mountains of Breckenridge CO ended up @ 12k feet with shorts, tshirt, beanie and a typical flannel. Had 3 Green Berets with us fully decked out with cold weather gear and they kept saying they could not believe I had no problems and made it all the way. They kept calling me the White Wolf

 

[Rajobigguy]

Working the North slope in Alaska. When the combined temp and wind chill got to -70 we got to go inside.

 

[YeahYeah01]

Thirty years ago I took the girl I was dating in Key West back to Minnesota for Christmas.

She still brings it up to complain about the cold.

Lol nice!

 

[AZLineman]

2 coldest-
-Elk hunting on my horse in Colorado off the continental divide trail way back.
-Working for a week in Red Wing in Jan abt 6 yrs ago. There they showed me how to thro your coffee in the air to make brown sleet.

 

[badgas]

On a middle school Ski Club trip to Utah ( yes it was a thing in the 80's ) we had a below zero day and I can remember eating lunch
outside and my root beer turned into a slurpie in the can before I could finish it.

 

[boatpi]

Here is one more from lake Louise. This is what happens when a waterfall keeps going and the temperatures drop. Amazing.

 

[Yoshiro]

This makes me think of a personal opinion I have about temps:

In the 70s the experts warned us of a coming ice age. It didn't gain traction with Americans as we didn't see any evidence in our lives of that.

In the 80s the experts switched and tried to sell us on global warming. This narrative has been pushed for over 25 years. Even with all the publicity on it, Americans largely haven't bought in to the narrative, as fierce winters continue to hit us that make it hard to believe.

So now the experts are calling it climate change. This is brilliant, as any extreme weather condition falls into this narrative, which makes it hard to argue against. This one might gain the traction they are looking for.

 

[River Runnin]

Cold -- And REAL fookin cold! -22 and it's wind chill

 

[RIVERBORN]

New place. Buttonwillow raceway.
33* and foggy. Lol. It’s cold to me.

 

[rivermobster]

So I'm skiing at Mt. High one year, and it starts snowing. Fuck it. I'm going for a few more runs...

Now that I'm almost frozen solid, I figured it's time to head for the bar! I walk in, and a bunch of people turn to look at me and start laughing. WTF?

I'm wearing a Stetson hat. I reach up to take it off and all I get is a handful of snow. DOH!

Spent about 5min in the bathroom with my hands under the cold water, just trying to warm them up.

There was another time at Snow Summit where we thought it would be a good idea to spend the night in my girlfriend's CONVERTABLE, so we could ski First thing in the morning.

Kinna glad I can't afford to snow ski anymore!

 

[USMC2010]

This makes me think of a personal opinion I have about temps:

In the 70s the experts warned us of a coming ice age. It didn't gain traction with Americans as we didn't see any evidence in our lives of that.

In the 80s the experts switched and tried to sell us on global warming. This narrative has been pushed for over 25 years. Even with all the publicity on it, Americans largely haven't bought in to the narrative, as fierce winters continue to hit us that make it hard to believe.

So now the experts are calling it climate change. This is brilliant, as any extreme weather condition falls into this narrative, which makes it hard to argue against. This one might gain the traction they are looking for.

The communist lib I work with uses climate change as the extreme differences. I say hogwash, this planet will do what it does, when it wants to. Do we impact, sure, but not to this level.

 

[clarence]

Lol nice!

I do enjoy reminding her of the eye roll she (model/fashionista) gave me when I told here we'd have cold weather gear for her to wear.

She wore it ALL.

 

[dave29]

-20 Nepal.........in the tent!!!!!!!

 

[Outdrive1]

-20 Nepal.........in the tent!!!!!!!

I’d sure like to hear about that adventure, did you summit?

 

[YeahYeah01]

I do enjoy reminding her of the eye roll she (model/fashionista) gave me when I told here we'd have cold weather gear for her to wear.

She wore it ALL.

Lol my wife did not prep me well at all, I looked at the weather and knew what was waiting but had never experienced so I didnt think it would be that bad. I did by a decent coat prior, but was in regular jeans and sneakers, no gloves or anything. Freaking stupid man. Walking to the rental car area surrounded by frozen ass concrete and snow drifts and wind was something I will never forget.

 

[stephenkatsea]

While playing in a band, once had to walk, about 2 miles, in snow and ice, back to our hotel wearing a tuxedo and dress shoes. Ended up with some numb toes for a few months.

 

[farmo83]

I have.
BP issued updates colder than -100 wind chill many times.
Doesn’t really matter what someone says the record is here or wherever. I was there.

Side note: coldest winter hunt I ever went on was a moose hunt on snow machines out of McGrath. At that time I was about 12 years old. That was the coldest I’d ever been before going to Prudhoe .
I dont remember what it was, but had to be at least -30.
Our propane liquified and all our heaters in the campers quit. I literally thought we were going to die.

Back in the pre gps days my dad got sent on a job at the magnetic north pole. He said they working on support for the antenna that told planes which direction was north. What he described it as is very similar to this.

 

[2Driver]

Don’t know the temps but..

Missing the beach start at the Havasu Polar Bear run

Sitting all morning in a goose blind/pit with my Dad hunting on the Chesapeake

 

[dave29]

I’d sure like to hear about that adventure, did you summit?

Was there for a month in 1989 trekking. Highest we got was 18700', Kalapathar. Just sleeping at 16000' was a chore breathing at that temp. Head was buried in your sleeping bag. You'd run out of air and come up for a breath in the cold temps. No shower for a month. Food cooked on kerosene stoves tasted like kerosene. Dropping loads in a hole. It was a great adventure. Almost went back this year with friends but illness prevented that. They went and got rained out by monsoons after 6 days. Roads were washed out. Had to be rescued by helicopters. That was the end of their trip.

 

[mbrown2]

Many times been in Mammoth when it was in single digits even snowboarded in it...but Mammoth is dry ...not a lot of humidity even though the snow carries high h2o density.... However years ago I was working in MN when one of those polar vortex's hit the mid west.... I was in the hotel valet area and it was -3....but the moisture was high with a breeze...that was the coldest I had been ....

Fast forward..same morning......my car is supposed to take me the airport to go from MN to Chicago....but I am reading at that moment they are telling folks in Chicago...stay inside...breathing outside for any duration is a health hazard... the temps there were like minus -15 along with windchill.... Call my boss... "should I skip seeing you in Chicago?".....he's like "turn that jet towards Cali and get the fock out of dodge, its unsafe to be here"...Think temps in Cali were mid 60's at the time....so great to be home!