Just an update on current cold conditions in East TN and what I guess I have to call the Second Polar Vortex.
I set up the old Staika tent in the backyard and have been sleeping out every night for the last 10 days with this morning showing 0F on the old thermometer. I hope everyone else is getting their bag nights during some of Miss Nature's best. This is an addendum to my previous lunacy as found here---
http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/show...e-Polar-Vortex
Midnight January 28. It's butt cold again.
Morning January 29 at 0F.
The old faded Hilleberg Staika in the cold. Inside? The Exped downmat---a supremely warm piece of gear but a little outside my Circle of Trust---since during a long Thanksgiving trip one like it blew out a tube baffle.
The tent catching the first rays of morning sun. I recently learned that the coldest part of the day is just when the sun starts rising.
And so ends my travelogue into the Backyard Wilderness of TN. Or is it the Wrangler--St Levi Wilderness??