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Post by bobwendt on Jul 3, 2008 10:17:41 GMT -6
lynx, those of us that have been out at 30 below or more know you can not expose bare skin at all, not even for 1 second.
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Post by lynxcat on Jul 3, 2008 10:30:16 GMT -6
Sorry Bob....but I HAVE been there...have a cabin in Stanley Id...it's hit coldest place in the nation MANY MANY times....numerous times a year. And yes...58 below was very uncomfortable...but didnt freeze.... must happen more when one is "old" ,doesnt have any fat..and thin skinned LOL WORST thing was at about 20 below..took a wing nut/twist lock thing off the snowmobile trailor...had problems so I put it in my mouth...  |
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Post by lynxcat on Jul 3, 2008 10:36:20 GMT -6
[edit] Climate
Stanley has cold winters and mild summers. Even in the middle of July, it is not uncommon for the low temperature to approach freezing. [2] An Associated Press article referred to Stanley as "routinely the coldest place in the lower 48 states,"[3] though the average high temperature in the summer is well above most western coastal cities
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Post by mr. finch on Jul 3, 2008 10:42:15 GMT -6
it sounds alot differnt than kansas that for sure.at some point i will have to go up there and see it do some trapping, i have never trapped outside kansas
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Post by lynxcat on Jul 3, 2008 10:50:33 GMT -6
Heck I'd luv to trap kansas LOL...
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Post by mr. finch on Jul 3, 2008 11:05:28 GMT -6
just one of those things been here my whole life wouldnt mind a change hell you should come down its a far cry from where u live thats for sure
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Post by bobwendt on Jul 3, 2008 11:10:13 GMT -6
no biggy lynx, none at all. I`ve seen 1 foot of snow july 4th while denning. it just isn`t remarkable in the weather dept. no one is. it gets bad all over. 105 in ks summer trapping is no piece of cake either. you put a 30 below nut in your mouth? lol, that`s a good `un.
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Post by lynxcat on Jul 3, 2008 12:04:21 GMT -6
YEA....it wasnt so good at the time lol...heat's a killer as well!!
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Post by mostinterestingmanintheworld on Jul 3, 2008 12:18:44 GMT -6
Lynx I wouldn't admit to putting a nut in your mouth. That's worse than losing your words from being out to long.
Did ya ever hear the one about the old Chinaman?
Miner in the Yukon came in and went to the saloon, says you got any whores? Barkeep say no just the old Chinaman upstairs. Trapper says I don't go for that shite and goes back to the trapline.
Next year he comes out and asks the same question,gets the same answer, and goes back out.
Next year comes in, same question, same answer. But this time says man I've gotta have something so OK get me the old chinaman.
Barkeep tells the bouncers to go upstairs and get the old chinaman, next thing they bring this guy down kicking and screaming. The miner says whats wrong with him?
Barkeep says, ya see the old chinaman don't go for that shite either!! lol!!
Joel
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Post by bobwendt on Jul 3, 2008 13:10:11 GMT -6
thought you were going to say the old chinaman took him over to the hotties in chinatown.
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Post by td on Jul 3, 2008 13:22:29 GMT -6
Good one. Version i heard was a little different. When the miner decides he has to have something, he asks how much? Barkeep says $500. Miner says sounds kinda high to ##$2@$ a chinamen.
Barkeep says, ........yeah, but $400 of it is for the two guys holding him down. Chinaman don't go for that sheet either.
Gene Tracy truck stop tapes as a kid. lol
Here's another for the western boys. Guy strolls into a dusty desert town and immediately sees a guy chase down a coyote and have his way with it. Then, as he walks into the bar and looks around, he sees an old guy at a table whacking it.
Sheriff happens to be at the bar, and the newcomer asks what the hell's up with this place........... first a man chasing down a coyote, now this old man over here playing with himself?
Sheriff looks at him, and says, ........well, you don't expect that old guy to catch a coyote, do ya?
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Post by hotandry on Jul 3, 2008 14:48:05 GMT -6
Lynx's comments about being freaked out his first year in that back country is interesting.
Very few people have experienced it or have any idea. Those that have tend to give it up fast. Don't go back. Too much fear.
I met a young trapper in the spring of 80. He was skinning rats in his tent at Ruby Marsh, NV. Had finished a very successful season cat trapping. Over 40. Had some coyotes too. And was finishing on rats. All fur was sky high, the height of the boom.
Said he wasn't going back again next year. Said he was going to get a job in town. Had a far away look in his eyes, like he'd seen a ghost.
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Post by lynxcat on Jul 3, 2008 15:12:38 GMT -6
That's the one... VERY ominous and VERY threatening...
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Post by mmwb (Andrew Parker) on Jul 3, 2008 16:01:00 GMT -6
30 below in one spot is not the same as 30 below in another. Relative humidity makes a huge differnece, as does a wee bit of breeze. I'll take 30 below in my neighborhood anyday over the same temp back in the midwest where I grew up.
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Post by troymcdaniel on Jul 3, 2008 16:14:21 GMT -6
Jerry Clower said his mother had been cold ever since that guy invented the wind chill factor LOL!
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Post by FWS on Jul 3, 2008 16:42:01 GMT -6
Spend some time on the ocean and you'll feel that way a lot.
I like the lonesome part of trapping the backcountry, best times I've spent in life.
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Post by bobwendt on Jul 3, 2008 17:08:45 GMT -6
same here. wish I was there right now, outback, not oceon. for every guy it runs off there is another it calls back.
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Post by lynxcat on Jul 3, 2008 18:44:55 GMT -6
Hear that... was kinda funny.... talkin to Joel and said something about IF we had a 4 mo season...first thing he said was... "do you think you could go for 4 months??" ..... THAT gave me a reality check BIG TIME... I was TOAST after 2 months....  |
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Post by thorsmightyhammer on Jul 3, 2008 19:49:47 GMT -6
lynx, those of us that have been out at 30 below or more know you can not expose bare skin at all, not even for 1 second.
Not true bob.
Not even close.
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Post by lynxcat on Jul 3, 2008 20:00:13 GMT -6
YUP...30 below's NOT that bad...NO deep breaths..but NOT that bad...been out SEVERAL time in the 40 below or COLDER with NO problems.... just a hat...NO face piece...gathered wood... AND chopd it too. MIGHT BE there are different "class's" of manly men....
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