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<blockquote data-quote="user 4386" data-source="post: 664517" data-attributes="member: 4386"><p>Even Dawson City can hit minus 40 - coming over the pass with the added windchill factor you would survive perhaps 5 minutes unless extremely well dressed. Water is frozen (throw it in the air and it smashes on the ground as solid ice) - so you must heat it to drink. Take care when having a piss. You cannot touch anything metal or you stick to the metal (I made the mistake of metal glasses frames). Try and separate and your skin peels - you really need to warm water to separate, tricky if you are stuck to your sled - I remember a dog in Siberia that tore its tongue out after trying to lick a pipe - could not separate. . Visibility drops to zero in snow storms and can last for days. No bridges and falling into streams can be fatal. - you may get out but once wet wind chill will get you before you get a fire going - with what? And influenza and other diseases easily kill because your body is struggling to keep warm. To work gold-bearing gravels you sometimes have to run hot water pipes through the gravel to thaw it. Blizzards can last for 4 days with no visibility, high winds and metres of snow.</p><p></p><p>Give me the outback here any day. Here we bulldoze roads and drive them - in much of Canada and west the ground is swampy and you must lay plastic sheeting then put gravel on top.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4386, post: 664517, member: 4386"] Even Dawson City can hit minus 40 - coming over the pass with the added windchill factor you would survive perhaps 5 minutes unless extremely well dressed. Water is frozen (throw it in the air and it smashes on the ground as solid ice) - so you must heat it to drink. Take care when having a piss. You cannot touch anything metal or you stick to the metal (I made the mistake of metal glasses frames). Try and separate and your skin peels - you really need to warm water to separate, tricky if you are stuck to your sled - I remember a dog in Siberia that tore its tongue out after trying to lick a pipe - could not separate. . Visibility drops to zero in snow storms and can last for days. No bridges and falling into streams can be fatal. - you may get out but once wet wind chill will get you before you get a fire going - with what? And influenza and other diseases easily kill because your body is struggling to keep warm. To work gold-bearing gravels you sometimes have to run hot water pipes through the gravel to thaw it. Blizzards can last for 4 days with no visibility, high winds and metres of snow. Give me the outback here any day. Here we bulldoze roads and drive them - in much of Canada and west the ground is swampy and you must lay plastic sheeting then put gravel on top. [/QUOTE]
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