Coldest Temp you have camped/hunted in?

VernAK

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A few years ago, a friend had a winter cow moose tag so we geared up for an 80 mile push into the Alaska Range. Finding an area with numerous moose, we shoveled out a spot and erected the wall tent as the days are very short. After setting up cots and sleeping bags we cut firewood for the wood stover before kicking back and enjoying some dinner. With the tent warmed up and parkas off, it was time for a little libation but;
CROWN ROYAL WOULDN'T POUR OUT OF THE BOTTLE!
 
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High desert in November...record lows for the area and was told it was 3-7 degrees at night.
Just a 10 degree bag with bivy and puffys top and bottom.

Slept in a open ended rimrock cave next to a pile of mulie bones.
Piled wood lengthwise along cave wall...fire burned down the line.
Fire is good.

The key is keeping your boots and water container at the bottom of your bag!
 

Laramie

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One year my thermometer got down to -15 and froze there.....wouldn't budge. So have no idea if it got colder or not. Another time my cousin shot a cow at 0730. We split her open and gutted her then kept hunting. We came back at noon and the cow was frozen solid. Not for me anymore. I'll take 70 degree days every day in September, and prefer the lows in the mid to upper 40's. But I've also shot 3D in February in -8 temps.
I'm with you, I like lows in the 40s and highs in the 60s with minimal wind. Usually happens a few days for me yearly while archery hunting.
 

redbarn

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Hunted bear over the Barents Sea when the temperature was the same in F and C. Double walled tent with no heat. Slept on caribou skins with a very warm down sleeping bag. Slept well. Icicles on the tent above my breath.
 

zach14

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-15 is the coldest I've camped in while coyote hunting. Not dedicated enough to ever do that again!
 
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Coldest temps camped in Have been around 0. Have done plenty of whitetail hunting in the negative single digits. VT November deer season can be 70 with mosquitoes or 0 and snowing on opening day. Have done a lot of hiking in the -20s with plenty more on the schedule.
 

Jn78

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The temp according to my truck on my coldest day hunt was -21, but it was sunny and not too windy.

0 degrees, no sun, high humidity, and snow blowing sideways all day feels a lot colder, especially when you stupidly take off bloody gloves and they freeze.

I end up tent camping or backpacking without heat in temps between 0-5 most years, but never much colder than that.
 

monsterB

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Camped in abandoned miners shack at 13,000 feet in the Sangre's in college in January. Got down to -30, beer froze solid. Cats Meow sleeping bag was not a good choice.
 
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Got a polar bear on the 11th day of a 10 day mid-Feb hunt on the ice out of Resolute, Nunavut. Temps were -35* to -40* and we did have winds with zero visibility a couple of the days. We camped out the whole time in a dual walled tent heated by a Kerosun heater, plus a Coleman gas stove and lantern when we were awake and inside, whichn was quite a bit due to the very short days that time of year (the sun returned the week before I got there). Slept on caribou hides over foamies. Inuits are tough dudes and love the winter weather.
 
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-4 was the coldest for me. Ever tried gutting/skinning a deer in that cold of weather after finding the animal 2 hours after killing it?

It was Very hard to do!
 

EastMT

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A few years ago, a friend had a winter cow moose tag so we geared up for an 80 mile push into the Alaska Range. Finding an area with numerous moose, we shoveled out a spot and erected the wall tent as the days are very short. After setting up cots and sleeping bags we cut firewood for the wood stover before kicking back and enjoying some dinner. With the tent warmed up and parkas off, it was time for a little libation but;
CROWN ROYAL WOULDN'T POUR OUT OF THE BOTTLE!

Man Vern you aren’t joking, I was up at the mine there for work in 2006-2007 range, it was -68 up there in the Goodpaster. As I worked outside, that hurt a bit. I worked on the slope a long time, but that day at Pogo is still the coldest I’ve seen. Winter is rough around DJ.


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TxxAgg

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0*F and camped in the snow in a summer tent. Our boots were frozen every morning. We were dumb.
 
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Single digits a couple times in the mountains of NC. Fortunately, I was car camping and had a big, fluffy sleeping bag and an extra blanket to go over me.

It was 14 degrees in Colorado one morning last week. Surprisingly, my inexpensive ultra light Cabelas 15 degree bag was plenty. Slept in a pair of merino tops and bottoms. My feet got a little chilled, but I tossed my puffy around them in the middle of the night and they were fine after that. Crawling out of that warm bag into that chilly air was a little more difficult though!!!
 
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Not sure exactly what the temps were but the thermometer on the truck never got above 7 the first day of our hunt in Wyoming a couple years ago. We were camped in Kodiak Canvas tents with buddy heaters. Last year in Colorado 2nd season was fairly cold too the first few days.
 
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