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Originally Posted by Mohoender

What temperatures are you talking about? What you describe seems to be about -50°C. Anyway, if that is the case, dehydratation would be the least of your problems. If temperatures are closer to -10°C or -20°C that would be less of a problem except of course if you have no snow around. However, if you have snow finding water won't be that hard. Melting it might be a bigger problem but you might simply forget about that if you really are thirsty. As a result, I would expect you to die more quicly from some kind of diseases than from dehydratation.

Well it all depends really . If moving along without time to biouvac ,melting the snow that is everywhere is the problem not finding it - you would think that dehydration is only a problem in really hot enviroments - but in the cold it is a factor too.

Wet and cold is the worst combo imho - but cold-cold -like -5 to -15 is hard too.

In the winter you are only warm as long as you keep moving unless you have a heat source .If its 10 below and you are marching along with kit and all ,the sweat builds up .Once you stop you get cold rapidly.Also even if in the tent or biouvac the cold makes you burn energy to kep warm even if you are at rest .

So I guess imho its about roughly 50-100% more taxing doing winter manouvers than doing a spring manouver .But all factors come in to play of course and are too numerous to discuss in this reply.