this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2026
181 points (98.9% liked)
Photography
6649 readers
123 users here now
A community to post about photography:
We allow a wide range of topics here including; your own images, technical questions, gear talk, photography blogs etc. Please be respectful and don't spam.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
We had guests last winter, all female dogs in heat (of course). At 1 I decided to sleep outside with the dogs, so Max, the nonstop barking horny idiot shuts up and guests can sleep. I don't like camping, even in summer. But I agreed to make the tent program, as it is very demanded by customers. It was supposed to be -8 in the morning. At 5 I woke quite frozen, so I closed my outer sleeping survival bag completely and started breathing heavily to heat up the inside. At 7 I woke up, tried to get into my boots, they were frozen solid. So I walked on top of them in order to slide in. Found the thermometer and it was -21.5C. Fun story to tell, but for me personally a nightmare.
Heh had the same issue with shoes one time, school thing (dogsled bit was from a school too) and one pair of shoes we had were some high top canvas sneakers guess converse like? But random supplied by the school you had to take (folded into packs nicely at least). Maybe the sole was better though. Then hiking in the Rockies up high in late August it did freeze (many decades ago now probably not today at the same time) and cause of river crossings during the day and no way to properly dry them lthe canvas froze in whatever lumpy position they rested in. We all had least two pairs of shoes so not too bad but having to deal with and was probably only -5 at worst. Mean I least I know how to deal with it but not something I'd purposely put myself in anymore.