Lots of good stories. RT, thanks for bringing this one to the top again! The people in my office asked me if anything was wrong, because I had tears in my eyes.
This will rank no where near the quality of Saltines story, but here is the story of my coldest crap ever.
I was elk hunting outside of Ellensburg during the late muzzleloader season during the first week of December about 6 years ago. Before I had left the truck I had heard that the temperature was 4 degrees down in E-burg. I was at about 4500 feet, so it was even colder up there. To make things a little colder, there was a slight breeze, of say 30 to 40 mph. Beautiful weather to hunt in!
About an hour into my hunt, I had that burnin' feelin' creep up from behind me. I knew that there was an old campsite nearby, complete with an outhouse. When I got to the camp, I found that the wind had blown away the tarps surrounding the kamode, and all that was left was the plywood sheet with two holes over the trench. I got out the TP, aka mountain money, and pulled down the layers of pants (jeans, goose down pants, and rainpants). I did a check of the landing area as I was headed down, only to see that there was a layer of ice and snow about an inch thick covering the two holer. I was committed, so I just sat down.
The basic cold, plus the windchill, plus the ice seat caused some immediate shrinkage and I found it hard to pee, butt it all came out, in the end.
My buddy showed up later on that day, and he didn't believe my story, until I showed him the seat. There, melted into the bench, was a snow angel impression of my butt.
Andy
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"Give me the anger, fish! Give me the anger!"
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