Karen, Good for you, braving the cold! Wind is particularly brutal at those temps. Another thing that I have found makes a HUGE difference is eating something before I go out to ride/do chores. I am sort of skinny and don't have much 'natural' insulation, and when I used to ride until -20F (I am a wimp now, I don't ride below zero) I would stay much warmer if I fueled my body with something. Even now, I make sure I don't go out and do my horse chores when it is bitterly cold (-35F to -50F) without eating something first. And I am here to tell you that those really low temps are not as bad as you think, because when it is that cold here the air is very still. We don't usually get much wind here, so all the fenceposts have a good foot of snow stacked up on them. I lived in Great Falls, MT for a couple of years, and I find it easier to function and stay warm up here at -40 than I did down there with that cold wind beating me up!
Jessica in North Pole, Alaska, where it is a balmy--and sunny-- -2F.
