Hey Rick, I never saw that site before. Thanks for the link. I just spent quite a while looking at the site, reading the forums and also looking at some of the gear mentioned in the posts. Lots of great info on winter camping. Probably the best site around as far as deep cold camping is concerned from what I can tell. Not exactly UL by any means, but at those temps, easy to see why not.

What surprises me is how much of the old school clothing people were recommending-cotton anoraks and all that sort of thing, plus those cotton tents with the stoves in them, like the one you made.

So, how's the weather up your way? I was listening to something on NPR (our version of the CBC) about a woman who had been doing research up in the NWT before it was Nunavit. She said the way the radio announced the temperature in winter was "in seconds until frostbite."