Thin skinned? Perhaps.......Concoctions? Nope, not even a little. I did run a trapline for quite a few years in Washington, the U.P. of Michigan and downstate. I sold fur which I put up on the Seattle fur exchange as well as local dealers in Michigan. About the only thing I haven't caught has been wolves (which I didn't try for) and I failed at Marten trapping despite giving it a good go. Tough? Sure, you have to be to run a line. The one thing you have to have as a trapper is what I call grit. The ability to wade through the mess and keep on going day after day month after month. I have lots of good stories but if I share them it just provides fodder for the MT haters.

I felt compelled to reveal a little history lest I be a Florida guy telling folk to not let others discourage them from getting out. Oh well.........For me its not so much being uncomfortable in tent (by all means have a excellent down bag and piles of thermal gear) but its the amount of time spent in the tent I would find discouraging. 12 or 13 hours in a nylon tent would be punishment itself regardless the temps.

As for me.......I would embrace the winter if I lived in the north. I would ski, snowshoe, snowmobile, trap, hunt and fish like I have done my entire life before moving to Florida and cold would be a reality to overcome and wouldn't stop me from pursuing the things I like to do. Didn't stop me before wether it was predator calling at 2 in the morning on a zero degree night or huddled behind some one else's shanty while the wind was honkin 40 MPH and spindrift collecting in the hole every 10 minutes.