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Comments on: Mushing On https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/03/11/mushing-on/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Mon, 12 Mar 2007 04:03:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/03/11/mushing-on/comment-page-1/#comment-22497 Mon, 12 Mar 2007 04:03:11 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/03/11/mushing-on/#comment-22497 Fortunately I don’t have to imagine as the first thing that happened to me after being shipped to Fairbanks in 1967, forty years ago this month, I went to Arctic Survival School, camping out with the air temperature at -40° the entire week. There was no “high-tech” gear, there was wool and goose down. It was not fun, and we weren’t moving great distances. If it had been warmer, we could have used to the snow to built shelters and insulate them. It is 32° in a well built snow cave and single candle will take the air temperature up to 40.

The humidity is near 4% because of the cold, so you dehydrate as quickly as you would in the desert, except that the water leaves on your breath.

You learn to live in those conditions, or you don’t.

]]> By: Alice https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/03/11/mushing-on/comment-page-1/#comment-22496 Mon, 12 Mar 2007 03:43:55 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/03/11/mushing-on/#comment-22496 It was hard enough walking to the El this winter when windchills hit the minus 20’s. I can’t imagine being out in that weather for long stretches of time, regardless how many layers of high-tech clothing they’re wearing.

]]> By: oldwhitelady https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/03/11/mushing-on/comment-page-1/#comment-22494 Mon, 12 Mar 2007 02:58:55 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/03/11/mushing-on/#comment-22494 All I can think of, when I hear about that race, is that I’m sure glad I’m not out there, competing! Brrrrrrrrrrr rrrrr rrrrrr!

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