Starise
I was recently reading about Mars where the average temperature is -60 on a good day and people are signing on to be the first colonists in the near future.No trees and carbon dioxide for atmosphere.... no return trip. Oh well, to each his own.

Can we send all the politicians first as a test run?

I have experienced beard freeze when living in The Great White North. Don't lick a lamp post....or icicle for that matter.

-34 is sure good enough even in Fahrenheits :o). In warmer countries people start dying much before such temperatures :o)
In such cold you need to warm up your body little by little. If you rush out and start shoveling your lung veins may shrink rapidly and your blood preassure rise in a dangerous manner. You should  inhale through your nose, it's designed to warm the air little.
 
Cotton fabrics are known as "dead mans cloth", because they totally loose the ability to maintain warmth when they get moist. On the contrary, when they're wet, they very effectively lead the body heat outwards. So, wool or technical (moisture transferring) fabrics agaist the skin are the best. If it's not windy, you can work quite well in such a temperature for surprisingly long, if clad properly. 
 
The most difficult part are the gloves. Lamb skin mittens (fur inside) and woollen gloves under them are good. I've never used/had/seen ski'ing gloves or similar made of synthetic materials that are any good in around -25 or colder. I have heard that such exist, though.
 
 
Glasses can crack if you take them in and put them on some warm surface or such, but I think yours aren't cracked??

+1 on the gloves. When ever we go back and visit MN in the winter, my wife always wants to buy a new pair of ski gloves. She's always cold with those. I grew up with Lamb skin mittens that had wool lining, "choppers" we used to call them.

I looked at the pictures, read the post and had to use my inhaler...
 
I didn't go outside but I did get up!
 
Say what you will... it is too cold where you live. Do you live in like Russia or something? Even most of Europe is north, and northern Europe is like arctic. When we visited Germany a few years ago for the Christmas holidays I was surprised, it doesn't look that far north on the globe but Mainz, and Koln are like being in Canada... then Berlin is WAY on up there. In Mainz it got dark at 4:30 in the afternoon and it was frigid, and snowing. My daughter who lives there (Dusseldorf now) said that in Germany it is overcast and cold ALL winter. Even Rome, Italy is on the same latitude as Chicago... but I digress.
I am not sure where you live but it is certainly cold. The US "Midwest" the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, etc... have weather extremes. It is absolutely frigid in winter and sometimes in summer it is only hotter in the southwest. Crazy... it is temperate here in north GA, still it is relative. Today it is upper 40s and rainy... miserable weather to me but obviously, it could be worse.
I lived in Colorado in the early 70s when I was a hitchhiker and an itinerant amateur pharmacist... I remember one day up in the mountains, we were playing around out on a frozen lake in shirt sleeves. Then other days the blowing snow would turn one side of you white.
I like the weather here, it is almost always 5 degrees hotter in southwest GA, where I grew up, more humid there and there are GNATS all around your face from about 9:00 AM until the evening when the mosquitos run them off. Florida is a nice place to visit but the wind and sand get old after a couple of weeks at the beach and inland, well... I've lived there too and there really is no reason to live there. One year at the beach I had goggles, back when the girls just started to wear thongs... I nearly drowned. That wasn't so bad.
 
I like snow for a day or two but up near the lakes where it just stays on the ground all winter, I bet that really gets old, especially when it gets dirty. Yes, I think I will stay here. Perhaps I will look at your pictures now and then.
 
Winter.. ehhh.  Maybe I will get up again in a minute.
 
J

Did you have those battery warming socks??
That is when you hire someone else to do the shoveling!
 

Nope...never...ever...ever....ever...not on your tintype...ain't happening...go ahead and shoot me.

This is exactly why I don't go outside.

That and the rubber walls with locked doors...

Why the hell would ANYONE want to even live in an area that has the potential to even go down to -34?
Or even NJ for that matter.
 
Mike