QRP and Winter Cold Weather

I walked up and down a local field with my backpack radio Icom 703 trying to drum  up a QSO on 10 meters.  I heard many stations but could not compete with the big guns with my AH 703 antenna and 5 watts.  QRP is one of those Ham activities that take either a lot of patience or an exotic high altitude location in order to make it worth the while of the poor folks on the receiving end of that weak signal.  But it was still fun, and a definite "geek" moment with ground wires dangling at my calf level and a meter high antenna sticking out of a backpack while wearing earphones.  Wish I had gotten pictures....