I know exactly what you mean Andrew! My air mattress leaked at -29C . . .
Got a good cold out of it

Raise you that place in the Yukon to Thule AFB and then raise another at CFS
Alert . . . Summer and winter. Wasn't bad though . . . it was DRY!!!

heh heh heh

Jacques

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Laurie & Jacques wrote:
Thought so . . .
Been there too!. But it is not the coldest place I have ever been . . .
Try La Ronge SK

Jacques

See your Winnipeg and raise your La Ronge - when I worked in the weather
office I read the thermometer in Watson Lake, Yukon
minus 69.9 F

You had an office?! Luxury! Third Regiment, Royal Canadian Horse
Artillery, had a meteorological section (all "blue jobs") that deployed
with the unit for winter indoctrination and sovereignty exercises. They
may not have recorded anything that cold, even when they deployed to Coral
Harbour, Northwest Territories, but it's different when you have to sleep
in a five-man arctic tent on an air mattress in a two-piece sleeping bag
with a flannelette liner and a hood that covers everything but your nose.
The air mattress was what made it work. If it leaked, you were f***ed.

Here's Coral Harbour: http://preview.tinyurl.com/6whr2c. The regiment also
deployed to Resolute (http://preview.tinyurl.com/8nuef6) during winter,
but that was well before my time.
--
Andrew Chaplin
SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO
(If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.)



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