Fiery Fingers

As you'll know if you've read our other posts, we don't normally do cold. One of the biggest conundrums we've faced in the prep for this trip has been deciding exactly how cold it'll be, and how much we need to do about it.

One thing we do agree on: we don't want to have cold hands. OK, we already sorted out some non-slip gloves, but is that enough? I know what it's like to drive off on a cold morning and hardly be able to hold on to the steering wheel for the cold. Gloves never really helped me then, and now we're talking about spending hours outdoors, in sub-zero temperatures, while needing to hold on to the gunnel of a RIB boat, or the railings along the edge of the steps up to a mountain top, or... well, you get the idea.

So Nikki's invested in a few of these. Little Hotties. Mix the chemicals, stick 'em in your pocket, and away you go. Or at least, you do after ~20 minutes. By that time, once they've properly got going, they'll have reached 74°C according to the packet.

If they really do last 8 hours we'll be fine for the whole of whatever excursion we're taking that day. Even the coldest ones.