Originally Posted by
Slo-go'en
As soon as you get out of your bag, before you do anything else, you need to stuff it away. This pushes all the warm, moist air out of it before it has a chance to chill down and condense. My routine is to unzip the bag, sit up and put on my upper layers, pull out my feet and put on the lower layers, then stuff the bag and roll up the mat. Don't delay on the mat or it could freeze to the bottom of the tent.
It's really tempting to start hiking in the morning with everything you got on. But it doesn't take long to warm up and start sweating and getting all those layers damp. So, you have a choice of stripping down just before you put the pack on or do it 10 minutes later.
You might want to look into gortex socks instead of a VBL.
Don't have just one lighter, have three - a back up to the back up. And maybe some matches to back up the lighters.