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Originally Posted by The Reaper
Korea, in February.
I build a mean Poncho hootch, but at 53 below and snowing, you better have something a little better.
TR
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Amen, amen. You have never been cold until you've been cold in Korea.
You find yourself a rice paddy dike and set up on the lee side. Stomp, kick out the snow, Lay your poncho down. Inflate your store boughten therma-rest. Shake out your old chicken feather sleeping bag. Put your poncho liner inside. Sit down on it. Take off your boots - put the soles together and place them between your bag and the therma-rest with the toes pointed down so they are between your knees. (Keep swishing your feet around inside the bag).
Take off your helmet and replace with a watch cap. This next step you have to do fast! Take off your field jacket, rezip it, stick your feet in it, and wrap the arms loosely around. Replace feet and legs inside poncho liner and inside sleeping bag. Zip up the bag (almost) as quick as you can. Wiggle around to warm up the air. Reach out and pull your shelter half over the whole thing. Try to keep your nose and mouth exposed. Take off your golves, put them where you can find them. Unfasten your belt and trousers. Stuff your hands down there (don't worry you won't
) Oh and your canteens go inside too. If in the middle of the night you wake up hot, kick straight up cuz it probably snowed on you.
At -50F your spit will freeze before it hits the ground. The good thing is you really can't tell the difference after about -30F