I used to do a fair amount of wilderness winter camping. For a couple of years a group of us used to do a winter traverse of the Presidential Range in New Hampshire, lots of wind and exposure, but fun. When I first met Cyndy, she had never done an overnight backpacking trip. We met each other in Northern Minnesota started started to do some cross country skiing together. It seemed to me that this was a good chance to try some winter camping on cross-country skis. 

Cyndy was a good sport about the idea, but at the time I did not realize that this would her first overnight backpacking trip. The weather was great and trip started out well enough, but during the trip it got cold. We had the gear and the know-how, but it got down to -20F at night, yikes, thats cold for a first overnight camping trip. 

I got the tent setup, laid out our good down sleeping bags, got warm drinks and dinner ready, seemed pretty cozy to me. Cyndy did not quite see it that way, she was not wild about some aspects of winter camping like sleeping with her boots inside a stuff sac in her sleeping bag. 

But at least her boots were not frozen the next morning and and the ski back home was great.