Whatever happened to woollen long johns like Stanfields of Nova Scotia use to make?
Has anyone worn fingerless woolen gloves inside a woollen mit inside a leather welders mitt before? I use to dress like that when I went snowshoeing all day at -30c. I wore woolen socks plus thick woollen oversocks and put thick woolen insoles into my boots.
I wore a sweater out of thick cowichan wool over my longjohns, then a wool shirt and then a down filled parka that reached to my knees, with a snorkel hood so even the wind from a blizzard could not touch my face when I stared straight into the wind. I was 16yo and I learned what to wear from library books.
I always dragged a 6 foot long toboggan with me because when the cold began to penetrate I would take off the showshoes (those finger gloves helped), dug a trench in the snow at right angles to the wind with a snowshoe, set up the boboggan on its side as a wind screen and lay down for a while to warm up. If I had a snodrift available I would just dig a snow cave and crawl in. That way I could stay out all day and be comfortable with never any risk of frostbite.