Warm Coat

[Gavin]

Is constantly dressing like you're going on an arctic expedition from Nov to Feb just something that happens when you have kids?

You feel the cold a lot more once you get older. And kids accelerate ageing. Ergo, yes.

Must say that the cold doesn't usually bother me, but I'm really feeling it this year. Just checked and mine's the Marmot Solaris, and it kept me nice and warm this morning with outside temps at -3

Ok Anna!

I got a red parka in the end, it was nice and toasty.

[mik]

I got a red parka in the end, it was nice and toasty.

Was nice and toasty...?

RIP red Parka.

What brand of red Parka did you go for, and I hope you spent the necessary 4-figure sum on it.

[V8Granite]

Beard growth is very helpful in winter.

Layers here too, plus a body warmer/ Gilet is very nice alwhen you still need arms to work.

Dave!

[Mike1215]

Finding my Pachyderm Explorer excellent in this weather - genuine elephant down insulation

[mik]

How you gonna choose it if you really just want to prance?
By standing in the hall?
(Get your sack out of the hall) tell me
Are you gonna shivver when you really just wanna prance?
You hiding from the squall? Get your hood up - ahm no cauld!

'Cause I heard all the people sayin'
Get down in it, come on and
Get down in it, if you really want it
Get down in it, you gotta feel it
Get down in it, get down in it
get down in it, come on and
get down in it, baby, baby
Get down in it, get on it
Get (hefalump) down in it

[Gavin]

I think it was somebody Anderson from dat der Copenhagen. Whether that is some fancy make, I could not say, it only needs to be warm.

I have many many fleece/shell layers and gilets or body-warmers as we called them in the early 80s. Then have the Berghaus gore-tex jacket to layer on top for mountains et.

[Mike1215]

How you gonna choose it if you really just want to prance?
By standing in the hall?
(Get your sack out of the hall) tell me
Are you gonna shivver when you really just wanna prance?
You hiding from the squall? Get your hood up - ahm no cauld!

'Cause I heard all the people sayin'
Get down in it, come on and
Get down in it, if you really want it
Get down in it, you gotta feel it
Get down in it, get down in it
get down in it, come on and
get down in it, baby, baby
Get down in it, get on it
Get (hefalump) down in it

System of a Down?

[mik]

How you gonna choose it if you really just want to prance?
By standing in the hall?
(Get your sack out of the hall) tell me
Are you gonna shivver when you really just wanna prance?
You hiding from the squall? Get your hood up - ahm no cauld!

'Cause I heard all the people sayin'
Get down in it, come on and
Get down in it, if you really want it
Get down in it, you gotta feel it
Get down in it, get down in it
get down in it, come on and
get down in it, baby, baby
Get down in it, get on it
Get (hefalump) down in it

System of a Down?

The Boys Are Back In Down
Smalldown Boy
Life in a Northern Down
Golden Down (texture like bun)
Etc

[Jackleg]

-50°C

- where was that??

A wind chilled -40’s the lowest I’ve been to. Moscow in February.

Northern Canada. A place called Snow Lake funnily enough. That was a particularly vicious winter. It rarely seemed to get above -30

[dinny_g]

Awesome!!! Did you try that "Throw a cup of boiling water in the air" thing...

With Moscow it was -20 static air temp but a pretty strong wind (~40mph) from the east so it was Windchilled -40. I had about 8 or 10 layers on top but only had a pair of Jeans on my lower half. It was I first discovered that that "Shrinkage" thing is actually true...

It was like looking at my tackle through a set of binoculars the wrong way round...

[JonMad]

My lightweight, wind- and waterproof Peter Storm hooded jacket (£40 from Blacks, probably in a sale) is keeping me nice and warm, with a Peter Storm gilet underneath (£15 from Millets iirc, probably in a sale), or my ParkRun super thin jacket, or both.

[Nathan]

I know its not very cool, but I don't mind Regatta stuff when I'm not scaling mountains

/normcore

[Gwaredd]

Just layer up. We went to Andorra & were too hot as we had good layers on. We had also taken on a lot of drink. A lot.

[mik]

I know its not very cool, but I don't mind Regatta stuff when I'm not scaling mountains

/normcore

It isn’t very cool. But is it very warm?