A Night in Cocytus
I went camping with my field research class this weekend and well, we expected it to be cold, but we didn't expect it to go way below zero and frost.
I had never been so cold in my entire life
and I was scared my feet were gonna get frostbite and fall off (if you've seen Mr. Deeds, that what my feet felt like)
We made a campfire and huddled around it for dear life. My feet were so cold that I stuck my feet in the fire and my boots started to melt... BUT MY FEET WERE STILL COLD D:
It was also the worst sleep of my entire life. You know that the sleeping conditions are bad when somewhere between bedtime and wake up time everyone has a hilarious anecdote.
Me
My sleeping bag was pretty good. My whole body was tolerably warm except my feet, which felt like death. I tried curling up but my sleeping bag was quite constricting, and if I ever uncurled, it was frigid and horrible. I tried crossing my legs, I tried rubbing my feet, and then I finally figured it out. The only way I could get to sleep is by pulling my pants down to my ankles (it was so cold that we didn't take any clothes off for bed) and letting the hot crotch area of my pants warm my feet enough that I could fall asleep. Unfortunately, I would wake up after a little while because my legs were cold, so I had to pull up my pants and "recharge" them with my apparently blazing testicles before I could pull them down and fall asleep again.
Kayley
This poor girl is so tiny I could hear her shivering from across the tent. She had the same problem of icicle feet, and her eventual solution was to take off her mittens and replace them on her feet for warmth.
Catherine + Nicole
Nicole had an awesomely warm blanket that she decided to share with Catherine Unfortunately, the only way Catherine would fall asleep was by hogging the whole blanket, which Nicole wouldn't stand for. After about the 5th steal, Nicole enclosed herself entirely within her sleeping bag, and pulled the drawstring shut, and then very covertly, she slowly pulled the entire blanket into her sleeping bag and sealed the entrance with her pillow. Catherine was cold for the rest of the night.
Considering the weather, and how ill-prepared we were, I'd say we were officially "winter camping".
It was actually quite funny... while we were at the campfire, I kept wondering where the moon was. I knew it was supposed to be wanding gibbous but we couldn't see it. At about 4:30 AM I couldn't sleep and I desperately had to pee, as much as I didn't want to wander out of my relatively warm sleeping bag. Despondently, I went out of the tent, and there was the moon, clear as day night. It was quite beautiful; too bad it was so fucking cold. The scene very appropriately reminded me of the song "Cold Moonlight" by Totally Radd!!, at which point I quickly lost the game.
And speaking of peeing, they had the best outhouses I've ever experienced in my life. It didn't smell at all, plus it had a extra toilet paper, a sink, a soap dispenser, paper towel and even a garbage can. If you ever find yourself needing to buy an outhouse, I heartily recommend Jimmy Jons.
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Anyways, I wanted to get all that down in a hurry, because I'm gonna start playing Mother 3 now =D
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I could go on about this, but I really just wanted to get it down before I start playing Mother 3 =D
I had never been so cold in my entire life
and I was scared my feet were gonna get frostbite and fall off (if you've seen Mr. Deeds, that what my feet felt like)
We made a campfire and huddled around it for dear life. My feet were so cold that I stuck my feet in the fire and my boots started to melt... BUT MY FEET WERE STILL COLD D:
It was also the worst sleep of my entire life. You know that the sleeping conditions are bad when somewhere between bedtime and wake up time everyone has a hilarious anecdote.
Me
My sleeping bag was pretty good. My whole body was tolerably warm except my feet, which felt like death. I tried curling up but my sleeping bag was quite constricting, and if I ever uncurled, it was frigid and horrible. I tried crossing my legs, I tried rubbing my feet, and then I finally figured it out. The only way I could get to sleep is by pulling my pants down to my ankles (it was so cold that we didn't take any clothes off for bed) and letting the hot crotch area of my pants warm my feet enough that I could fall asleep. Unfortunately, I would wake up after a little while because my legs were cold, so I had to pull up my pants and "recharge" them with my apparently blazing testicles before I could pull them down and fall asleep again.
Kayley
This poor girl is so tiny I could hear her shivering from across the tent. She had the same problem of icicle feet, and her eventual solution was to take off her mittens and replace them on her feet for warmth.
Catherine + Nicole
Nicole had an awesomely warm blanket that she decided to share with Catherine Unfortunately, the only way Catherine would fall asleep was by hogging the whole blanket, which Nicole wouldn't stand for. After about the 5th steal, Nicole enclosed herself entirely within her sleeping bag, and pulled the drawstring shut, and then very covertly, she slowly pulled the entire blanket into her sleeping bag and sealed the entrance with her pillow. Catherine was cold for the rest of the night.
Considering the weather, and how ill-prepared we were, I'd say we were officially "winter camping".
It was actually quite funny... while we were at the campfire, I kept wondering where the moon was. I knew it was supposed to be wanding gibbous but we couldn't see it. At about 4:30 AM I couldn't sleep and I desperately had to pee, as much as I didn't want to wander out of my relatively warm sleeping bag. Despondently, I went out of the tent, and there was the moon, clear as day night. It was quite beautiful; too bad it was so fucking cold. The scene very appropriately reminded me of the song "Cold Moonlight" by Totally Radd!!, at which point I quickly lost the game.
And speaking of peeing, they had the best outhouses I've ever experienced in my life. It didn't smell at all, plus it had a extra toilet paper, a sink, a soap dispenser, paper towel and even a garbage can. If you ever find yourself needing to buy an outhouse, I heartily recommend Jimmy Jons.
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Anyways, I wanted to get all that down in a hurry, because I'm gonna start playing Mother 3 now =D
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I could go on about this, but I really just wanted to get it down before I start playing Mother 3 =D