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HH~:
I have seen knee caps frozen black. InsteAd of doing PT to keep body temps up all night this Yardbird went fetal on knees in fighting position. Laziness is mostly the cause in my experience.
Ive marched my men on snow shoes one night off coast of USSR all night in sub artic temps as we would have had multiple Cold injuries that night.
Bad thing is most lower 48 folks dont even know they are getting body parts frozen!
You get wet in Artic you not gonna have to worry about frost bite. If you dont act fast your dead.
Shawn~
Marc St Louis:
--- Quote from: HedgeHunter on August 23, 2020, 01:35:56 pm ---I have seen knee caps frozen black. InsteAd of doing PT to keep body temps up all night this Yardbird went fetal on knees in fighting position. Laziness is mostly the cause in my experience.
Ive marched my men on snow shoes one night off coast of USSR all night in sub artic temps as we would have had multiple Cold injuries that night.
Bad this is most lower 48 folks dont even know they are getting body parts frozen!
You get wet in Artic you not gonna have to worry about frost bite. If you dont act fast your dead.
Shawn~
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The black only happens a few days after, seen that before. That's when body parts fall off.
Getting wet can be bad, depends how far you are from heat. In my case I was carrying a 30# Beaver I had shot on my back, how I got wet, so I had to stop half way home and make a fire. No lost body parts but there was nerve damage. This was 40 years ago, not something I would do now.
Many people have no idea what -45 feels like. I've always preferred cold to heat, I just don't care for anything below -30 anymore
Kielyn lives close to the same latitude as I do, maybe a little more south. I could tell her mentality was not northern survival mode right from the start. She was coming from a white, well off family upbringing, that decided to do the northern thing. You see plenty of those up here.
Still the girls shamed a lot of the guys
HH~:
Seen 30 wt oil jug cut in half with a fighting knife at -60. Looks like taffy.
Smart to dry off by fire quick like. No wood in Arctic!
Shawn
Pappy:
It turned out about like I thought from pretty early on, he had the skills for sure.You could tell it wasn't his first Rodeo. I was hoping the girls would make it and i Think Callie would have made it if not for the frost bite, they were both tough as nails for sure. Good show and enjoyed watching it. :)
Pappy
mullet:
The time I worked in -48 all day I ended up with frostbite on my big toes and left cheek under my eye. Like Marc, when I took my boots off in the truck my socks were iced over. I had walked into a ditch that morning on the way to the rig that had filled up with snow and didn't realize how much snow had gotten in my boots. I ended up with nerve damage also and every time it gets real cold my left eye waters real bad and my toes sting.
that was also the first time I saw hydraulic oil freeze and all of my pens and markers froze and wouldn't write.
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