{"id":332,"date":"2006-03-02T08:47:14","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T13:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=332"},"modified":"2006-03-02T08:47:14","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T13:47:14","slug":"coping-with-winter-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/03\/02\/coping-with-winter-crap\/","title":{"rendered":"Coping with &#8220;winter crap&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryanjordan.com\/weblog\/2006\/02\/down_gear_in_sc.html\">Ryan Jordan&#8217;s advice: <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And so, if you&#8217;re heading out into winter crap, which is about the only term that describes &#8220;temperatures near freezing with sustained heavy snow and rain and no opportunity to dry gear&#8221;, follow these rules:<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n1. Down won&#8217;t work. Don&#8217;t even try to make it work. No waterproof-breathable fabric bivy sack or tent will help. No super breathable system (think: tarp, no bivy) will help. At these temperatures, the dew point will be inside the bag and any moisture in your shelter (bivy, tent, tarp, snow cave, it doesn&#8217;t matter) will condense on the outer fabric. You&#8217;ll pack your wet bag into a stuff sack in the morning and enjoy the beginning of an absolutely awful night when you unpack it that evening.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n2. Synthetics won&#8217;t work either. But they at least will allow you to spend an extra night or two.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He found that synthetic insulation lost tons o&#8217; loft in only a couple nights outdoors in snowy, hovering-near-freezing weather.   Goes to show that the tiniest variances in temperature can trip you up when you&#8217;re out in the cold. All the more reason to &#8220;camp&#8221; in a cabin with a nice warm fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Jordan&#8217;s advice: And so, if you&#8217;re heading out into winter crap, which is about the only term that describes &#8220;temperatures near freezing with sustained heavy snow and rain and no opportunity to dry gear&#8221;, follow these rules: 1. Down&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/03\/02\/coping-with-winter-crap\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}