Hi,
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> << There's an unused plastic tarp in my garage, and just the other day I was
> thinking that I had no use for it. >>
> Take along a lightweight blanket Shel. That tarp will get cool to the touch
> and miserable late into the night for astrophotography. In the winter,
> moisture will gather on it and freeze, a yucky feeling at best. So a light
> blanket gets wrapped up in the tarp.
No. The real answer is to use wolfskin. I went to a museum exhibition
yesterday about Scott, Amundsen, Shackleton and the other early
explorers of the Antarctic. It included a complete suit, trousers and
everything, made of thick furry wolfskin which Scott (I think) took to
the Antarctic as protection against the temperatures of -89 that he
would encounter. But after wearing it for a few days he took it off
and left it at base camp because it was _too_warm!!! So that's my
recommendation to Shel, and anyone else, wandering around the mean streets
of Berkeley on those chilly California evenings without electric power. Dress
yourself in a wolfskin suit :o)
--
Cheers,
Bob
ps I was rather hoping to find later in the exhibition that Plan B for
subsequent expeditions was a head-to-toe penguin suit, which I'd have
thought would be most effective, but sadly, no...
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