Those are very interesting insights. I especially resonate with the "never cold feet". I see in a lot of posts or videos, people recommending down booties. For use _inside_ the actual hammock. From my experiments (sure, in the garden, no on the trail), I don't get that at all.
In my bed, I used to (and can still) have cold feet a lot and I'd have to go into fetal position to get them warm again. Mostly can't get them to stay warm if I stretch out after that. And that's inside, in a heated room (sure, window's open but overall the room's still at like 60-ish).
After my last post I finally got my 0F the other night too
20210121_005210.jpg Now on that particular night, my feet were never cold and since it actually warmed up from when that picture was taken to morning (8F), I woke up to sweaty feet and a wet footbox. But still toasty warm feet and also overall.
I also really need to get a frost bib now. On these close to 0F nights, I usually have condensation dripping down my face now, since I tend to pull my outer sleeping bag sort of over my face and use it as the frost bib, as it has like a 'flannely' inside that can absorb the moisture well (since I'm just in the garden I just dry it all out inside during the day), but it tends to 'unfurl' and then the synthetic outside of that doesn't really absorb it much and some goes up to my 0F synthetic bag's hood too and it all is still so warm that only some of it freezes and some of it drips down
Also totally get what you're saying about the gloves there @NorfolkYeti. I have the same with any regular gloves. Mittens are usually warm but regular finger gloves just keep the cold in like you said. I can usually get the fingers warm again by pulling them out of the fingers of the glove and basically use them like mittens. But as soon as I stick them back out into the fingers of the glove, they get cold again.
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