Mundane, pointless.
Except I had to visit ER for treatment.
Blisters the size of Antarctica on the bottoms of my feet.
I, at this time, do not recommend winter camping in latitudes above 45 degrees N.
However, I am in a nice ER room with cute nurses, with a TV remote and cable TV while I wait for the doctor to come tell me how stupid I was and not to do this again.
So yeppers, I already know this, but here is some free advice to people more stupid than I:
Change your boots and socks.
I left mine on wet and frozen for 4 days while camping. Big mistake,
Yeah. The term “Idiot” comes to mind right about now thank you very much.
40+ years ago I had a brush with frost bite on my feet. Might even be appropriate to call it “frost nip”. It hurt like hell. The doc told me that the pain was a good sign, it meant the nerves were still alive.
My condolences. Get better soon.
I’ve been pretty anal about clean, dry socks ever since. And dry shoes/boots.
I wouldn’t go that far. Winter camping is quite doable north of 45, and in fact, north of 49, as I can attest from personal experience.
Could be a lot worse.
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Cabin_Fever, dear friend, please believe me that I mean this in the nicest, most respectful way:
JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH, WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING, YOU IDJIT!?!
(Whew! Glad I got that off my chest.)
Look, I don’t know much about winter camping, but the basic rule in sub-zero activities is: keep your head, hands and feet dry. If they get wet, get them dry again as quickly as possible. The extremities are where frostbite bites!
(I’m sure Muffin will be along shortly to give the same advice, based on much more personal experience, and likely more tactfully. )
I never been in weather that cold,in fact I’ve lived in Texas all my life and I know better than that!!
Honestly,were you DRUNK??
I hope you don’t loose your FEET…
Good lord! I am fine. It was circumstances beyond my control why I didn’t take my boots off for 4 days and appreciate being called an idjit .
Frostbite is a serious matter and I have never had it this bad before.
There is a TLDR story behind all this, however long story short…went to old campsite through knee-deep snow and decided to stay a few days.
No change of clothing and as it was f***ing freezing, decided to keep my boots on to keep my feet warm (supposedly) during the nights.
It’s not only serious; it’s also the gift that will keep on giving. Your feet will get cold more easily for the rest of your life. I frostbit both ears in -65F weather about 50 years ago and cold wind still makes them hurt.
Actually, drinking any sort of alcohol-based product will constrict your blood vessels (sp?) and make you die quicker in the wild.
But to answer you question: I wish
BTW, I am from Houston myself, glad to meet you.
But it mostly of deer, spring birds, geese and ducks flying north, chick-a-dees pecking on the trees, squirrels eating the trail-mix I left out for the migrating birds (the bastards!).
Sadly my frozen boots and feet never made to the camera.
No apologies necessary and thanks for the sympathies.
I love the hyperbole even though I can not spell it on my Android phone.
Even when I get a strong signal.
Well, at least you still have your fingers and your nose.
But seriously, if I had done the same without plans to stay, and then decided to stay, but then realized I had no change of footwear or a way to dry out what I was wearing, time to hike back to the car.
I had a weird one 2 weekends ago, I was outside in ~28°F weather and had put on some fairly thin work gloves just to protect my hands from the wind. Within minutes my fingertips were numb and senseless, I took off the gloves and 10 minutes later they were fine.
My only theory is that there must have been something soaked into the old work gloves that was speeding the freezing of my fingers.
Anyway, good luck, and don’t ever do that again!!!
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