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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Minerals-
-6 in the box?
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Prezwoodz
Big Wall climber
Anchorage
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Usually start climbing when it hits 40 degrees here or so in the early season...I mean its not like our seasons long enough to wait around.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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40ish for slopers on sandstone bouldering
55+ is comfy for rock as long as the wind isn't howling
below that, we make do, but it won't be comfy.
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Didn't read the whole thread so this might've been said but there's a point at which the coldness of the rock leads to numb fingers and numb fingers don't work so hot. Around 40 degrees in the shade.
I've climbed a few times in the cold with gloves on during the easy ground, then going bare skin for the crux, then putting the gloves back on.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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I remember once talking with the late Dan Moe on a Laramie spring day.
"Dan, you gettin' out climbing?"
"I generally wait until it gets above 55º"
"That's positively decadent."
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Fluoride
Trad climber
Hollywood, CA
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I grew up in Minnesota so there's no such thing as too cold. I remember being at the school bus stop dressed like I was heading up Everest (as a grade schooler).
However right now my apartment is colder than the outdoors. I've made it a point to never turn the heat on as this cold box is "training" but last night I had to wear a jacket and hat inside my place. Might be time to try to use my heat system (which in 7 years here I haven't done so I'm afraid of carbon monoxide poisoning).
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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We used to life in a loft in SLC, heated it with the pilot light and sweaters.
I remember once tracking in snow on my sorrels, hours later it was still there, on the carpet.
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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That's funny Fluoride, I also grew up in MN and this morning after 3 days of -10 I said,
"feels like home"
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midarockjock
climber
USA
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Below zero I was fine and it all seemed the same except for freezing times
of coffee spill on my clothes and tear drops after yawing.
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GhoulweJ
Trad climber
Sacramento, CA
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Some 20 years back in Red Deer Alberta, Halloween:
We gave out Otter Pops -NOT frozen-
A friend who trick or treated us called that night once they got home.... The pops were slushy!
I moved back to Cali a week later.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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minus 16 in Denver this morning, with lower temps
around town . . .
brrrrr!
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Minerals
Social climber
The Deli
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Wade, it might be a few degrees warmer in the box, but not much. My buddy's wife reported -13 at 7am this morning, just down the street. So, I guess something like -10 to -13 is my new record. Now I've just got to get my pee bottles to thaw out! Winter sucks! Yuck!!!
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tomtom
Social climber
Seattle, Wa
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With tools and crampons, it's all good.
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Tradmedic
Ice climber
Thunder Bay, Ontario
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Ah yes Tomtom...Never too cold.
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midarockjock
climber
USA
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Denver?'s Iv'e never been there.
1. Wet or dry cold?
2. Wind or no wind?
Pocatello has gotten to around 100 below due to wind chill. Glad
I was not there. Around 30 below where I was it's dry and no wind.
Skiing was also great a bit north at 27 below starting, not a cloud in
the sky and at 10 above high I was comfortable in just a sweatshirt with
a thermal underneath.
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Paco
climber
Montana
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Being cold isn't issue (barring -20F), it's wind, rain, or both.
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corniss chopper
Mountain climber
san jose, ca
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San Jose temperature is 36F degrees at 8:00pm Dec 9 2009.
too cold for sure but guess what?
-it is illegal to burn wood, pellets, or manufactured fire logs in any indoor or outdoor fireplace, fire pit, or wood or pellet stove when a Winter Spare the Air Alert is issued in California.
And yes they've issued the alert!
Your neighbors are urged to
act like the air gestapo and turn you in to the Fireplace Patrol.
Luckily if you have no other source of heat you are exempt from this
and can burn wood to stay warm.
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mark miller
Social climber
Reno
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Dec 10, 2009 - 12:38am PT
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Having to fix frozen water lines in this cold spell sucks...and I don't think it's gotten colder then -5 or so except out in the North valleys.
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lucander
Trad climber
New England
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Dec 10, 2009 - 11:17am PT
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Roped up for Crimson Chrysalis in January at 32 degrees. Funny, we had the route all to ourselves.
My general cut-off is 40 degrees, but this can decrease a bit at a sunny crag like the Gunks.
D. Lucander
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