Car Camping in -26 Degrees! | Extreme Cold -26°F/-32°C Winter Survival in a Car

Tale of Two Travelers
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The window is completely frozen. This is just one solid chunk of ice. Please start.
So now we're heading into town to get some food and get some supplies.
It's early dinner time. Making... every time. We're making breakfast for dinner. So we're
doing avocado, egg, sandwiches, some home fries. You have some bacon, not for me.
Toes get into that point where they can't even function. They're so cold.
Look at my little toes. That's not what I want to see before I eat. Do y'all ever have the problem
where your toes are colder with socks than without socks? Your socks are like, even if
they're kind of loose, they're still constricting enough to stop the blood flow. Make it unbearably
cold. Balancing that. Gonna make it work, y'all. These are yours. And when in doubt,
just add more cheese. It does look really, really good. Solves all problems. I gotta go get a fork.
Oh, grab me one. Well, I figured one of us can eat all the butter. I can eat the guac fork.
Yeah, that's a symbol of mine. So we're just planning on... Sorry, my potato fell.
So after this, we have good internet connection here. We're gonna stay here for a while.
I don't think we can sleep here, technically. It's just like a pullout.
We can find a better place to sleep. I don't know. The view's pretty good.
We'll find a nice place with a good view. But tonight it is supposed to get extremely,
extremely cold. I think the coldest we've seen so far. Possibly the coldest we've ever slept
in the car. Yeah. Do you want your eggs? Yeah. Are you gonna be able to do the balancing act I did?
I can just grab it.
Now that, that is impressive. I'll spare you the rest of this. Watch that beautiful sunset,
which you'll see in the time lapse. But have it just been before. Which you will have seen in
the time lapse. And now we think we're ready to find an actual sleepy spot. Yeah, head probably
down this road a little ways and find somewhere that's drivable in the forest where we can spend
this frigid night. Who's excited? Me. I'm excited. It's only 619 and already negative 5 Fahrenheit.
It's dropping quick. When we got to our campsite, it's already negative 19 Fahrenheit. Which is?
Yeah, look at that. Negative 28 Celsius. It's a little colder than we expected it to be.
The low was supposed to be like minus 16. It's already past that. It's only like 830.
Yeah. Oh, 851. Oh, 851. I can tell time. But tomorrow morning at this rate, it might be really,
really, really cold. And we have the thermometer inside. So we'll be able to see. Like right now
it's 60, which is nice and tolerable. But I have a few things to put on the roof rack too. I'll be
quick. I hope so. The inside of the window is already freezing and the car is still on. It's
been running for like three hours. Wow. My nose hairs froze instantly. My nose hairs froze.
First breath, they froze. I abandoned it and put it over there. Well, that way I won't forget it
because I put it on top of the car and don't tie it down. I'll just drive off in the morning.
No, I need to be able to see it. I just meant someone else doesn't see it.
All right. I didn't brush my teeth yesterday, so I got to do it today.
I brushed my teeth last night, this morning. I'm brushing them now.
Teeth are important. I bet if I spit, it'll freeze on the way to the ground.
That's an experiment. We're definitely tomorrow morning going to throw some boiling water in the
car. We can't not, you know. Oh yeah. It's going to be, especially at this rate,
it's going to be so cold. It'll freeze right away. It'll be a lot of fun.
We always make fun of each other for how we brush our teeth.
Oh, did you stuff it in there? I figured you'd put it on there.
You can leave it up here. All right, Chad. We're believing in you starting tomorrow morning.
Time for the temperature to plummet in here. The bed awaits you. You did a good job.
You're always so graceful. Luckily, it's still warm now. Well, it gives us a chance to heat up
in our sleeping bags, which is good. If you didn't have that new sleeping bag, you'd be dying tonight.
Well, I wouldn't even consider sleeping without any heat. But these are zero degree sleeping bags,
not negative whatever it's going to be. Well, yours is technically negative four.
Well, it says limit negative 4.7. It's currently negative 19. Pushing the limit.
Well, we've got some reflectors behind our heads on every window. There's already ice forming on
the outside of them. We're going to try to do it tonight without turning the car on.
The only thing we're really worried about is just the car battery or oil being too cold to start.
Be prepared, folks. Worst things, worse. I'll flag someone down and they'll help us.
I think we're both going to be waking up like this, completely under. I have the thermometer
up in the front, so we'll be able to see in the morning how cold it was in here. Yeah. Versus
outside. And it has a little, although I assume when we wake up, because we'll wake up before
sunrise, I assume it will be the coldest temperature yet. We'll wake up before sunrise
Yes. And we might just, we might just be too cold. Last night I woke up before sunrise
by quite a bit. I slept in. Well, I guess you were warmer than me.
Well, we'll watch our downloaded stuff and hopefully see you tomorrow. Not in the middle
of the night. Probably in the middle of the night. Goodnight. Ice on the windows on the
Oh, it's cold up here. The window is completely frozen. Negative three in the car.
I think that's what that little arrow means. All right, Chad, come on. Please start.
Oh, wow. Chad is a good car. It's negative 26. We broke our record by quite a few degrees there.
Got to see what that is in Celsius. Negative 32. Negative 32 degree car camping.
Just with sleeping bags. Well, good morning. We stayed exceptionally warm back there.
Our reflectors. I started the car so now we can warm up everything. But the reflectors did a
But definitely having the zero degree sleeping bags under a blanket, kind of over your head,
Rosa even overheated. Look at you. Put my freezing cold on. Oh yeah.
My nostrils froze instantly. That's all the time we can be out here. Oh, it's so cool. It's cold.
Ready? Never. A little squeaky. Oh, this is what minus 24 feels like. My nostrils. Oh yeah.
Actually makes me cough a little. I really was. I mean, I will say I felt significantly warmer
sleeping in this temperature than I have in warmer temperatures before. Just because I guess we uh.
No, I'll tell you why he felt warmer. He got a sleeping bag that actually works.
He's been sleeping in like zero degree weather with a 32 degree sleeping bag.
Well, now I have the proper sleeping bag, but also the blanket and the reflectors
behind us. And the sleeping bag. And the sleeping bag really helped. Oh, I keep sniffling. It's not
a good idea. Oh yeah. It's like putting ice up your nose. We've got to do the classic
boiling water thrown in the air. Do you want my help? This is our, this is our least frozen water.
Yeah. Cap is frozen too. Try it with that. Look at all our frozen drinks. It's frozen at the top.
It's just a cube of ice. We're gonna have to have the bottom heat on for a while to defrost it.
Well, the jet boil isn't really supposed to work in freezing temperatures, so we had to switch to
propane. The other jug of water froze, so I had to bring out another one because it was just out
here long enough to have no water left. Well, that was the coolest thing ever. Now we got to put
this back in here. Well, that was something. It's cold. Our new record for coldest car sleeping,
negative 26 degrees Fahrenheit or negative 30 whatever it was Celsius. But I'll say, you know
what? The way we were, we could have forgotten it was this cold. Until you wake up and see that
every surface is covered in ice. No, the issue with sleeping in weather like this is you never
want to get out of your sleeping bag. Look at your jacket, where the water landed on you. It's ice.
But seriously, if you do stuff like this, getting out of your sleeping bag is the worst part.
Well, you can put your feet up by the vents like I was doing. Your feet made the whole car smell like feet.
Well, thank you for watching our negative 26 degree car camping adventure.
Can't do this very often because it's not very often negative 26 degrees. Also, it's not very
often that I want to do it. But if you're into this kind of winter content, we try to post this
kind of stuff as often as possible. Sometimes we're camping out in the snow and sometimes
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