You are viewing this forums as a guest which limits you to read only status.
Only registered members may post stories, questions, classifieds, reply to other posts, contact other members using built in messaging and use many other features found on these forums.
Why not register and join us today? It's free! (We don't share your email addresses with anyone.) We keep email addresses of our users to protect them and others from bad people posting things they shouldn't.
This is certainly off-subject, but I gotta say that Minnesota kids are weather-tough at a young age. I stood at the bus stop with my 5 year old this morning with a temperature of -27 F. Good thing the wind was'nt blowing...it would have been nearly unbearable. Stay warm my friends !
Years ago, I had a scout troop at a KLONDIKE derby camp up near Park City. Slept outside at -25* F. Despite pre-camp meetings with the parents and kids as to the type of gear that was required to stay warm on a winter campout, two of the boys brought what I call slumber party sleeping bags for the trip, i.e. scooby doo sleeping bags. 
- They were COLD. 
I brought 2 goose down bags rated to sub-zero temps, one inside the other and was quite comfy. Ended up loaning one bag to each kid so they wouldn't freeze to death and spent the night standing close to the campfire. 
Yeah, I remember being in Boy Scouts and going on camping trips in january, and of course Klondike Derby. They would always tells us that the best way to keep warm in your sleeping bags was to wear nothing but your long underwear. I could never bring myself to do it, it was just too damn cold. I look back now and wonder why the hell I ever went camping in the middle of winter.
