10-01-2008, 07:22 AM
I have a lot in Eden Roc which is at around 1,800 ft elevation. I have slept in a steel shipping container there and in the winter I have woken up at 3 am from the cold when my sleeping bag didn't quite do its job. Granted it was an old sleeping bag and the steel container has absolutly no insulation and I had propped the door open, but still it was probably colder than what many people think Hawaii would be. In the same neighborhood I stayed with a friend in his house, again uninsulated but a real house with doors and windows, and I could see my breath one morning. I regularly feel cold at night up there.