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What's the coldest /out/ you've ever done?

Anonymous Sun 30 Nov 2025 20:10:27 No.2851770 View View Reply Original Report

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I think my coldest /out/ was a sleigh ride in -14°C when I was a kid. The coldest I've ever been outside for a few minutes was -22°C.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 30 Nov 2025 22:18:40 No.2851783 Report

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>>2851770
i like winter camping and have done it down to -35f
i like to use a very thick synthetic bag, slippers, and a spare fleece blanket to seal the cracks and as a sacrificial layer for frost. i keep the boots and water in my bag if i can. putting on boots that sweaty and cold in the morning is a serious frostbite risk imo. they might never warm up
i also work outside and have done it down to -55f. can't really show any skin and even with gloves on touching metal sucks.
overall not too bad if you know how to deal with it. i'd prefer it over 120f for sure

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Anonymous Sun 30 Nov 2025 23:00:57 No.2851786 Report

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>>2851770
Slept in -5 F with no shelter just a shitty non-insulated leather jacket on concrete

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Anonymous Sun 30 Nov 2025 23:05:31 No.2851787 Report

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>>2851770
I went couple of times to school as a minor at -28C knees deep in snow. Despite classes being cancelled kek. At around same temp we went on frozen lake with cousins to sleigh and do all kinds of shit. Winters back then were freezing and deep in snow, but somehow climate change isn’t real apparently.
>t. from Eastern Europen shithole

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Anonymous Sun 30 Nov 2025 23:32:48 No.2851794 Report

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>>2851786
How did you survive that?

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Anonymous Mon 01 Dec 2025 00:07:45 No.2851804 Report

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>>2851770
It was -28C when I visited some festival in China a few years back. We spent a few hours outside looking at ice sculptures etc but it wasn't really /out/.
Coldest /out/ing would've been when I climbed Ama Dablam. Base camp was only just below zero but the summit was supposedly -19, or -35C with wind chill.

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Anonymous Mon 01 Dec 2025 00:24:41 No.2851809 Report

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In 2019 it got down to -40F (like -50F windchill) in Chicago overnight. I walked out of my apartment for like ten seconds just to feel what that felt like.

Amusingly, that is the same night that Jussie Smollett claimed he was attacked by racists at 2am in Chicago (in -40F weather, lol)

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Anonymous Mon 01 Dec 2025 00:38:38 No.2851811 Report

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>>2851770
thawed out frozen oil wells for 16hrs at -44f with -60 windchill

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Anonymous Mon 01 Dec 2025 00:54:29 No.2851813 Report

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-20c or -4f (per an outside thermometer) last week in the hautes pyrénées at about 2300 meters of altitude when the wave of cold hit europe

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Anonymous Mon 01 Dec 2025 01:08:52 No.2851814 Report

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>>2851770
Sleeping on the ground in freezing temperatures for Search & Rescue. The most fun I never want to have again. I built a nest of pine needles, laid my pad on that, put all of my spare clothes on, wrapped myself in my tarp and mylar, stuffed my shirt collar and armpits with hand warmers and just waited for the sun to come up. I tried not to thrash too much so that my teammates could sleep, but I could hear them thrashing throughout the night. The wind kept gunning right for the exposed part of my tarp, no matter how I positioned it.

>>2851794
I'm going to guess he moved around a lot or was sitting/standing instead of laying his whole body on it.

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Anonymous Mon 01 Dec 2025 01:39:17 No.2851819 Report

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I would rather be in 120F than 30F idk how the fuck you guys do it.

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Anonymous Mon 01 Dec 2025 01:52:10 No.2851822 Report

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>>2851819
its in our dna, its why we have larger frontal lobes, cold weather takes planning.

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Anonymous Mon 01 Dec 2025 03:24:47 No.2851839 Report

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-29 °C in Alaska, but had a cozy cabin to retreat to. The locals told me it hits -40 °C most winters, and even -50 °C sometimes.

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Anonymous Mon 01 Dec 2025 04:25:46 No.2851850 Report

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>>2851794
He's naturally insulated

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Anonymous Mon 01 Dec 2025 17:12:10 No.2851947 Report

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>>2851770
I had -45°f (-42.8°c) to years in a row in my back yard. I went /out for a few minutes to experience it.

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Anonymous Mon 01 Dec 2025 17:13:29 No.2851948 Report

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>>2851770
i routinely skied in -40 (with the windchill) in quebec as a child, we'd do like one or two runs and then sit in the chalet and eat poutine

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Anonymous Mon 01 Dec 2025 17:31:50 No.2851958 Report

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>>2851770
I remember -40 C (wind chill) waiting for the school bus

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Anonymous Mon 01 Dec 2025 17:43:36 No.2851964 Report

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>>2851947
forgot- windchill was pushing -70f. didnt stay out for long

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Anonymous Mon 01 Dec 2025 20:59:23 No.2851987 Report

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>>2851770
-40°

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Anonymous Mon 01 Dec 2025 21:00:48 No.2851988 Report

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>>2851819
>idk how the fuck you guys do it.
Ive been snowboarding in the teens (F)
If theres no wind its quite pleasant.

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Anonymous Tue 02 Dec 2025 04:42:22 No.2852044 Report

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what would be the ideal ultralight winter camping setup? I'm doing a motorbike trip at altitude and I need gear that will keep me toasty but fit in a backpack so I don't have to have those gay panniers.

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Anonymous Tue 02 Dec 2025 08:57:12 No.2852057 Report

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>>2851770
I slept in my car in -16F(-27C) while up in the Yukon last winter.

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Anonymous Wed 03 Dec 2025 00:46:41 No.2852153 Report

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>>2851770
-53 deg Celsius in arctic

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Anonymous Wed 03 Dec 2025 03:46:33 No.2852176 Report

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>>2851770
The coldest I've camped in was around 20°F (-6°C) pic related.

>>2851819
It's easier to keep warm at 30°F than to keep cool at 120°F.

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Anonymous Wed 03 Dec 2025 08:33:19 No.2852214 Report

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>>2851770
Unironically it was in a city park. I was unprepared for a winter rain storm and the walk back to my car was bitter.

In most cold settings I go so prepared the cold is an afterthought. I hope this never changes.

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