What's the coldest weather...

[BoomerMan10]

I remember multiple times last Winter, sitting under a specific pavilion with Drew_Moberly, the gurkha, and Jeff B in 10-degree wind chills, sometimes even much colder(0 or so). Oh the prices to be paid to enjoy a great cigar with even more great conversation. So, what was your coldest/most extreme event?

 

[Mr Peat]

Its not that cold at NW. :whistling: Just glad I am not on campus. I couldnt brew beer or smoke cigars in peace. Poor suckers. But my coldest was about 30 below Zero. All I can say to that now...Oh hell no.

 

[rpcky16]

Coldest was probably 0

 

[Drew_Moberly]

Dude it sucks ACE because it is so cold up here the cigar smoking outdoor season is from like Aug-Oct 1st then again from like March-May when we leave.....I think we should come together build a smokers barn....its well worth it.

Its just so darn cold up here i mean really it is.......its rediculous. But cold or not i will always try to enjoy a good cigar with my NWMSU boys.

 

[Mr Peat]

This jan 05 was probably the coldest it has been here in 4 years. I had to walk to NW to work on the weekends at 4:45am. Lets just say between the wind and the temp, it was hitting probably around -10 to 20 below. When I lived at South Complex, I used to goto the teachers building on the back side where they have that plastic over hang on the stairs. Luckily I never got caught smoking there.

 

[Swissy]

Hmmm....
That would be the fall/winter of 1995 (first week of October I think...) Out caribou hunting with a buddy at Sourdough, Alaska. We walked into the cabin we rented for the night, and no joke, there was a half inch layer of ice on the INSIDE of the damn place. thermometer INSIDE read -32f!! Good thing the guy had just fired up the heater, as later it was so damn hot we had to open the door. Anyways, we were out tracking caribou before sunrise, and I had about every layer of warm winter clothing I owned on, and we found the caribou. We each shot ours, and before we dressed them we had a cigar. They were machine made Spanish cigars I brought back form Spain- Monteros Galanes, or something like that. Anyways, my buddy LOVED those things! So we lit them up, enjoyed a few monents with them and then decided it was too damn cold to sit on our butts and smoke a cigar! We threw the caribou onto some kids sleds we brought, dragged them back to the truck, and lit up another cigar (same kind...) for the long drive home. Thank God the truck heater worked!
Memorable trip as it was the last hunt we did together before he retired and move to Montana... great memories! And daaaaaaamn cold.

 

[Double D]

when i was in bosnia in 95-96 it was so cold the mice would freeze in our tents overnight. We were not allowed to run heaters overnight for safety reasons. It was so cold i could feel each individule hair of my muustache and if i touched it pain was the end result.

 

[natejustice]

Probably mid-teens, with a single digit wind chill factor...wanted so badly to squeeze that hemingway short story in..luckily it was a short story, only taking me 30 or so minutes, but it was very well worth it

 

[Ginseng]

Hmmm....
That would be the fall/winter of 1995 (first week of October I think...) Out caribou hunting with a buddy at Sourdough, Alaska. We walked into the cabin we rented for the night, and no joke, there was a half inch layer of ice on the INSIDE of the damn place. thermometer INSIDE read -32f!! Good thing the guy had just fired up the heater, as later it was so damn hot we had to open the door. Anyways, we were out tracking caribou before sunrise, and I had about every layer of warm winter clothing I owned on, and we found the caribou. We each shot ours, and before we dressed them we had a cigar. They were machine made Spanish cigars I brought back form Spain- Monteros Galanes, or something like that. Anyways, my buddy LOVED those things! So we lit them up, enjoyed a few monents with them and then decided it was too damn cold to sit on our butts and smoke a cigar! We threw the caribou onto some kids sleds we brought, dragged them back to the truck, and lit up another cigar (same kind...) for the long drive home. Thank God the truck heater worked!
Memorable trip as it was the last hunt we did together before he retired and move to Montana... great memories! And daaaaaaamn cold.

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Great story Swissy! I love hearing your accounts of life in the great northern state. :thumbs:

As for the coldest tempoerature I've smoked in, must have been about 25-30F while stomping snow footprints in Rhode Island. Ah, L'il Rhody, how I miss it so.

Wilkey

 

[wam79]

70 :whistling:

I should have a cold temp story after a mainland visit this Christmas :laugh:


Bill

 

[celt]

i live in upstate NY.

enough said.

 

[Wurm]

White Sands New Mexico in March... Also the only place I have managed to get frost-bite... the old US Army Mickey Mouse boots were deadly, I'm so glad they have done away with them.

Only had a few Dutch Masters Corona De Luxe with me on that FX, but I remember my lips being so cold the cigar kept falling out of my mouth while I was trying to smoke it.

We ended up breaking some wooden pallets up and making a fire in our bunker to stay warm. Top wasn't happy, but he turned a blind eye to us after one of my squad ended up being medevaced for frost-bite. Crazy desert... during the day T-Shirts and fatigue pants, during the night Korean War Parkas and M&Ms.

 

[MDW]

This morning I was freezing on the way to work. Had the heater on in my car at max. 85 degrees. Walking through the parking garage I was thinking to myself this is miserable, there's no way I'd want to sit outside and smoke a cigar this evening when I get home. Then I take a break at work and read this tread...

...the outside temp this morning (according to my car thermometer) was 49 degrees.

Boy do I feel like a wimp


-- Mark

 

[AVB]

I smoked a cig outside at Great Bear Lake in Canada at a balmy -43 F. The next morning it was -56 and I decided to skip the smoke. Your piss freezes before it hit the ground at those temps. (Don't try this at home )

 

[armedak]

Back when we used to have cold Winters before global warming it would have to be -57 below in Barrow Alaska. :laugh: :laugh: The only way you can stay warm is to keep moving and try and dodge all the friggin polar bears roaming around through the middle of town.

 

[BigMacFU]

I've done it in 14º with wind chills on the roof putting it at 0º. Of course, I was in my sandals because I hate socks and regular shoes.

 

[Jeffro600]

Hmmm...that would be 55 degrees or so...last winter when our power went out for almost 24 hours.

 

[PTownshend]

Coldest weather was just recently. Headed over to my buddies house (which sits near Lake Erie). Decided after lighting up some G3 Gurkhas that it was time to close the garage and try and smoke outside (he has a new cat and an air purifier, so he wants to keep things for the feline smoke free).

After about 15 minutes, he looked at me and say "F*@k this shit.. I'm done with this, lets get inside!"

It was nut freezing cold so we put out our cigars and started in on a bottle of 15 yr Macallan.

Too damn cold to smoke in those nipple-y freezing temps. Thank heaven smoke shops have a lounge to enjoy the puros with a big screen tv!!

Keeping warm in the frigid tundra of Western NY,
Darren :thumbs: