It's all relative.... for most of the planet -5 is considered extremely cold.... my point is I prefer dry and cold to wet and slightly warmer.... I do prefer west coast gorrila snot measured in cementemeters when it comes to skiing which is a bit counter the norm of looking for dry "blower" type powder.
The wet stuff is more fun and it's what I grew up in... but the dripping ...... melt-freeze is the flip side of being so close to the ocean at this latitude.
I remember skiing at the former Tod Mountain one year and it was around -35 for a few days.... definitely kept the speeds down and lot's of turns and coffee in the lodge.... but after a few days it warmed up 10 degrees to minus 25 and it was noticeably warmer.
Coldest it get's where I live is around -25 give or take, but that's only when we get an arctic outflow and usually lasts days or a week or so at the most.
I bought my mom and dad some Lentz heated socks last year and then bought some for myself, a client I was doing some work for had dealer pricing and sold them to me at cost. They are pretty nice but a bit pricey and they charge a lot for their battery packs. Everyone talks about going green these days but manufacturers love to make it so rather then swapping cells and using the same controller electronics, you have to throw everything in the garbage when they die and buy an expensive battery pack!
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