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After reading Forestgnome's comment on the Champney Falls thread, "Kudos to a guide named Kayla who happened to be on the trail with a large group. She placed a plastic sheet and a jacket over him which kept him warm until help arrived. He was partially in the stream water where he landed so he was getting chilled. When we removed the sheet/jacket to check his injuries he started to shake from the cold, so the plastic definately helped him. He was there for a long time before help arrived."
I was wondering if anyone has used the $30 bivy sacks.
Brian and I were on Jefferson two weeks ago and had to sit at the summit for a couple of hours waiting for some traversers to come through. It was not raining, but we were in moist cloud cover. We had sweated on our climb up. As we sat by the big cairn, our fingers started turning waxy white-ish/yellow and we began shivering. As an experiment, I took out my bivy sack and climbed into it to see if it would make a difference, since I've carried it for a couple of years and never used it. It didn't seem to. Of course, the real answer was to get up and moving, and that did the trick in under ten minutes.
Any thoughts?
I was wondering if anyone has used the $30 bivy sacks.
Brian and I were on Jefferson two weeks ago and had to sit at the summit for a couple of hours waiting for some traversers to come through. It was not raining, but we were in moist cloud cover. We had sweated on our climb up. As we sat by the big cairn, our fingers started turning waxy white-ish/yellow and we began shivering. As an experiment, I took out my bivy sack and climbed into it to see if it would make a difference, since I've carried it for a couple of years and never used it. It didn't seem to. Of course, the real answer was to get up and moving, and that did the trick in under ten minutes.
Any thoughts?