Wednesday, January 19, 2005
The coldest day ever
Well, no frost bite but the coldest I've ever been was this past Saturday. We went to lake L9817 again and it was a Haglund and snowmachine trip. The Haglund was packed and so I started out driving a snowmachine. Well, the temperature was -36F. About a quarter mile from the start my snowmachine perhaps permanently died. So, I ended up hopping on the back of Mike's snowmachine and was in for a cold ride. The snow machines topped out at 30 mph which on the National Weather Service's updated wind chill chart is -75 F! A new personal record (nothing to be real proud of though)! Well, no frost bite but boy did that cold creep through everything, I couldn't get away from it. It wouldn't have been as bad if I'd been driving but I was a bit more exposed and unable to move much. To add to it the driver in the Haglund took a couple wrong turns and added several miles to the trip out. So, I was freezing by the time I got out there. I burned so many calories that I ate lunch as soon as we got out there because I was already starving. So, what does the coldest day look like you ask? Well, you can't really tell from this picture but I can see out of a little slit between my hats and my face mask.
