Coldness, Wind Chill, and Survival

[RyanW]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

I have been backpacking where the low dropped below 35°F even at lower altitudes in the high desert, in winter though. At Twenty-Nine Palms, we had water freezing in the barracks sometimes.

I've been camping when it got down to 12 degrees F at night. By coincidence, I was at the same campsite a few months later when the heat index was into triple digits, none of them a zero. That's East Coast weather for you.