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Posted by calamity on January 23, 2008 at 2:00:19 am EST
In reply to Perils of Winter posted by calamity on January 12, 2008 at 6:14:20 pm EST

Rexim: We do in essence very much agree on the earmuffs.

The suggestion that hikers who lack unattainable experience, will face serious odds of death from hypothermia, do seem to melt away in the face of this remarkable NWS statistic

With ordinary common sense, the average hiker, in average circumstances, has a mile-wide margin of safety, and therefore, "pushing the envelope" is a good way to broaden one's experience.

In the Chicago region, lacking ordinary common sense, you could actually die walking the dog at this very moment.

Yet somehow, many millions do survive, thank you, year after year.

(Can anybody tell me what, if any, special equipment my girlfriend's samoyed dogs need for winter camping? They seemed unhappy, last year, in southern New York in December, at 32 stinking stupid degrees. But now it's like zero.)

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