Best Cold Weather Clothing

[vernon]

One other deal that works pretty good for me that my daddy taught me a couple of hundred years ago is to put a hand warmer in each of your pants pockets right next to the femoral artery.  That will warm the blood as it circulates throughout the body!

Probably total crap but who knows - I still do it when it's particularly cold out and it sure doesn't hurt.

Back then, we used those crazy Zippo style warmers that would burn completely through a guys leg if he wasn't careful.  Nowadays I prefer the large size Hot Hands although it seems to me that they need to be opened and hour or two before heading out to gain the full benefit. 

OK, that's it.  My contributions to a freezing society are now fulfilled!

[abkeenan]

4 minutes ago, vernon said:

Oh crap!  My bad.  That entire post was intended to be a private message exclusive to MU fans!  Figured I'd make totally inaccurate information sound really believable (you guys would never know the difference) and, consequently, freeze all y'all to death and put you out of your misery!

Just wait til basketball season. Can I use that line? Or is that exclusive to KU guys only? LOL.

[fishinwrench]

You guys sound like you are preparing for a trip to Antarctica.  Missouri cold weather is 25°-40°

Just dress the same way you have been since you were a kid out playing in the snow.   If you get miserably cold it's because you aren't catching any fish (or whatever) so it's time to go home. 

[vernon]

1 minute ago, abkeenan said:

Just wait til basketball season. Can I use that line? Or is that exclusive to KU guys only? LOL.

For many, many years, yes, it was totally exclusive to us!  However, for the foreseeable future, an exemption has been enacted and you can use anything you feel necessary.  What you guys are going through right now I wouldn't wish on even an MU fan.

Eastern Illinois for crying out loud?  At HOME?  Heck, a kid that grew up a couple of blocks away from where we live had 8 points and 6 rebounds in that game and I never even thought he was a particularly good high school player!

When white kids from Basehor friggin' Kansas can do that, time's is hard indeed.

[vernon]

3 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

You guys sound like you are preparing for a trip to Antarctica.  Missouri cold weather is 25°-40°

Just dress the same way you have been since you were a kid out playing in the snow.   If you get miserably cold it's because you aren't catching any fish (or whatever) so it's time to go home. 

Wrench, you obviously are still young enough to possess metabolism!  Once a guy reaches 60 you become akin to an inanimate object - you no longer generate much less maintain body heat!

[Seth]

3 minutes ago, vernon said:

Wrench, you obviously are still young enough to possess metabolism!  Once a guy reaches 60 you become akin to an inanimate object - you no longer generate much less maintain body heat!

My dad used to never get cold and then he hit the big 50 and lost some weight. He can't handle the cold nearly as well as he used.

[fishinwrench]

Well I'm 53 and I hate the cold (which I consider anything below 40) and I don't do enough fishing when it is below 30° to justify buying special clothes for it.  If I do then it's trout fishing down in a holler where the wind isn't bad, and some cheap fleece and wool under the waders keeps me comfortable enough down to the low 20's.  

I have spent some time standing dead still in a deer stand in 6° temps and I don't care what you wear, you are gonna freeze your butt off.

[Quillback]

1 hour ago, vernon said:

One other deal that works pretty good for me that my daddy taught me a couple of hundred years ago is to put a hand warmer in each of your pants pockets right next to the femoral artery.  That will warm the blood as it circulates throughout the body!

Probably total crap but who knows - I still do it when it's particularly cold out and it sure doesn't hurt.

Back then, we used those crazy Zippo style warmers that would burn completely through a guys leg if he wasn't careful.  Nowadays I prefer the large size Hot Hands although it seems to me that they need to be opened and hour or two before heading out to gain the full benefit. 

OK, that's it.  My contributions to a freezing society are now fulfilled!

Yep, you can put a handwarmer inside your glove on the back of your hand where the blood vessels are, it will help keep fingertips warm when using fingerless gloves. 

[Johnsfolly]

1 hour ago, vernon said:

my daddy taught me a couple of hundred years ago is to put a hand warmer in each of your pants pockets right next to the femoral artery

Vernon - I have been doing that same thing for years and I'm a firm believer that it helps.

13 minutes ago, Quillback said:

Yep, you can put a handwarmer inside your glove on the back of your hand where the blood vessels are, it will help keep fingertips warm when using fingerless gloves

QB - that will work as well as long as you don't get the warmer wet. Once it gets wet it can't get the O2 that is needed to continue the chemical reaction going on within the warmer. So bringing plenty of back-up warmers would help.

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3 hours ago, abkeenan said:

Great info there Vernon. That being said you are a Jayhawker and I can not, in good faith, fully trust anything you say.

Can't argue with this