Frozen Gear Fails: Choosing Tools That Survived the Rockies
The 10,000-Foot Stress Test In Colorado, "field-tested" means something different. When the temperature drops to sub-zero in Teller County and the wind is whipping across a roadside extraction site, your gear’s "operating temperature" becomes a life-or-death specification. At TLS, we’ve seen gear that looks great on a shelf fail miserably in a mountain blizzard. Common Failure Points in the Cold: Battery Drain: Cold weather is a thief. It siphons the life out of standard batteries. We...