If You Go For A Walk in - 20 °C Weather...

I have heard that it is going down to -20 °C here tonight in Toronto. For those of you who prefer Fahrenheit, please use the following equation to calculate the temperature: [°F] = [°C] × ⁹⁄₅ + 32*.

Snow will crunch underfoot like Styrofoam, and breath will rise up in the air, hang for a moment and then descend in a frozen mist.


If you are going for a walk in the woods in this cold weather, make sure to wear good boots, a warm jacket, big mittens, a scarf, a hat, wool pants and a sweater, and bring a foam mat to sit on, your fire-lighting kit, an axe, a carbon steel fixed blade knife, a good kettle, some rope, your tarp, a liter of hot water in a Nalgene bottle, a big wool blanket, some good food - preferably a freeze-dried entree, pepperoni sticks, some flat bread and jam, and of course - your camera.

I hope I am going to go for a walk in the cold as above - but if not today, then tomorrow. Or I guess next year. Oh. Which reminds me.

Happy New Year everybody!!!

May this year bring you peace, contentment, understanding, good health and some nice camping equipment. Lots and lots.

Cheers,

Mungo


* - 20 °C = - 4 °F