On or about: 03-10-08  10:36, Ardith Hinton did engage James Bradley
regarding, but not limited to: YooHoo to You...  2.

 AH> Hi, James!  Recently you wrote in a message to Bob Ackley:
 
 BA>  To Calgary?  I've seen enough of your weather down
 BA>  here thankyouverymuch . One of your cold fronts -
 BA>  we call it the 'Alberta Clipper' - set a record cold
 BA>  temp here of -6F Wednesday, the old record was set
 BA>  in 1939.
 
 JB>  Sorry, but you and Ardith only qualify as 'honorary'
 JB>  Canadians. 


 AH> I can tell you've never waited for a bus at the top of the
 AH> hill on  Chancellor Boulevard at UBC in the winter.  When the 
 AH> Squamish winds come over those lovely snow-capped peaks to 
 AH> the north & pick up moisture from the ocean before they get 
 AH> to you... brrr!  Even with a coat which my mother had 
 AH> brought with her from Saskatchewan, I really felt the cold.

 AH> I spent two weeks in Saskatchewan during Christmas holidays
 AH> around  the same time.  Despite what I'd heard about walking ten 
 AH> miles to school in a blizzard at -60o, the temperature 
 AH> never fell below a balmy -20o F. the entire time I was 
 AH> there.  One day I went for a walk... and my aunt was 
 AH> convinced I'd frozen to death because I was gone for four 
 AH> hours.  I was as warm as toast in multiple layers of the 
 AH> same clothing I wore at home.  She never went anywhere 
 AH> unless it was in a heated car which was kept in a heated 
 AH> garage, but she'd be wearing fashion boots & a light 
 AH> raincoat whereas I had serious boots & a wool coat with a 
 AH> chamois lining.  People say it gets cold in Calgary too.... 
 AH> :-))

I knew I'd hear it sooner or later, and you nailed a *huge* point. That
moisture can bring your "wind chill" *way* down. Here, we usually
stay pretty dry, so provided one doesn't sweat their carcass off...

I get away with one of the biggest sins in cold weather survival, in
wearing cotton as my first layer. Because I can unzip, and that will be
dried out in no time, I can usually *survive* in it. (-; Around you, a
person should really go to at least a synthetic "wicking" layer,
to be comfortable in the slightest chill.


... James

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