Well, I managed to go out, got back a little while ago.
I was going to "cowboy camp" with just the milsurp bivy sack, and two down sleeping bags.
Fell asleep, and woke up to freezing rain (not in the forecast) and everything soaked. I woke up because the bivvy sack had soaked through, and was actually freezing to my outside sleeping bag. The inner bag wasn't freezing, but was soaked. First time I have seen the dog with ice in his fur, lol.
I got out, put my (soaked) DIY jacket on, and it warmed up surprisingly fast, despite being wet. I was still shivering.
Took me an hour and a half to get the fire started again, I had to baton my machete through small logs to get anything dry.
After I finally got the fire going, I made coffee and hung everything up in the tree to dry, in the 30 mph gusts at 25 degrees, lol. After everything refroze, it was fine. I made a spruce bough bed for the dog, and loaned the poor guy one of my bags, he was miserable.
Waded back across the river today at about noon.
I'm going to back to the tent full time. I was pissed, I could have easily gotten hypothermia, and I checked the forecast twice before I left. I even had the material laid out before I left to make a new tarp, but I thought "it'll be fine" haha. That would have been a half hour well spent.
Still, it was a good time, and I need to get out more.
Oh, and the gunfire and burnouts in the parking lot were still going strong when I fell asleep at about 10 pm, checked this today and it was 9mm cor-bon (expensive bottle plinking) and .223. New trash at parking lot: dodge caravan back and passenger seat, a box of old porn cd's, and about 12 vials (the glass kind you snap the top off) of an unknown painkiller, someone was probably shooting up. Shooting PBR cans, and Michelob bottles, and porn cd's, and all the park signage. Not very good grouping on the signs, maybe woozy from shooting up the painkillers and drinking the PBR? Oy.