Re: Coldest temperature you've ever camped in?

Bill, I tend to agree with you. I am more familiar with the water (scuba diving,snorkling, body surfing) than really cold weather, but my experience was that I could be comfortable in water that would completely freak out other people and some water-like big waves-was more than I could handle, but I'd see guys out in surf that would have killed me in a heartbeat. It's all about training and just going out and learning how to be comfortable. If you take it one step at a time, you eventually get better at it.

I've seen people get off the plane from Hawaii in San Francisco in winter in shorts and tee shirts and be surprised that it is cold outside. People drive up to Tahoe in winter from SF or LA with no cold weather gear in their car because they are going to a hotel and have no common sense. They get caught on 80 or 50 in bad weather and then they are in real trouble. Happens every winter.