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Post by walkswithblackflies on Oct 28, 2015 8:17:25 GMT -8
Crossing Baranof Island, SE Alaska, 2011 Nothing worse than putting on cold wet clothes in the morning. Did your clothes become moldy/mildewy? I had that problem during my 2nd Adk traverse attempt. Tried washing them with liquid multi-use soap with only limited success. Holding them over campfire smoke worked better. Not sure if it killed the mold/mildew, or just covered up the smell. Funny that I didn't have a campfire to cook, keep warm, or dry my clothes (which just wasn't feasible)... just to make smoke to make my clothes smell better!
ETA: Well, one day I made a fire to warm-up, after going for a "swim" in the aptly-named Cold River.
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Post by BigLoad on Oct 28, 2015 8:18:44 GMT -8
Nothing special here. Polyester shirt, nylon pants, wool socks, Precip jacket and probably Precip pants. Maybe gaiters.
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Post by BlueBear on Oct 28, 2015 8:33:58 GMT -8
Nothing worse than putting on cold wet clothes in the morning. Did your clothes become moldy/mildewy? I had that problem during my 2nd Adk traverse attempt. Tried washing them with liquid multi-use soap with only limited success. Holding them over campfire smoke worked better. Not sure if it killed the mold/mildew, or just covered up the smell. Funny that I didn't have a campfire to cook, keep warm, or dry my clothes (which just wasn't feasible)... just to make smoke to make my clothes smell better! I can't guarantee my clothes smelled minty-fresh at that point, but I wasn't having issues with mold/mildew, per se. I used anti-fungal powder (Mirazine or similar) on my pits/feet religiously every evening, that definitely helped manage the smell factor compared with previous trips. I took care to wash myself every few days, even just with water in a creek. Beyond that, I'm unsure what the big difference woulda been. On my first few long trips I was definitely reeking of death by the first week in, and learned to manage it a bit better on subsequent trips. Rotating clothes helped some, as with using the anti-fungal powder and taking advantage of sunny days to dry things if/when I had the time (which wasn't always possible, of course). On day 18 that trip I hopped into a Cessna for a ride back to Sitka without having had a shower (I literally showed up less than an hour before the plane arrived) and the pilots didn't seem to have any complaints, so either they were super-tolerant of it or I was doing something right. But thinking about it, I'm unsure what I was doing per se that would've prevented mold/mildew on the clothes. - Mike
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Post by hikerjer on Oct 28, 2015 10:27:59 GMT -8
But occasionally, all the stops fail and any sense of dryness becomes only vanity. Become the wet. Ya, I came to that conclusion some time ago. Comes a point and you're just going to be wet. Nice video. Does look wet.
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Post by cweston on Oct 28, 2015 11:24:56 GMT -8
I'm another who virtually never wears rain pants except in camp. (In fact, for summer mountain trips, rain pants are the only long pants I carry.) I simply can't hike in rain pants unless it is well below freezing.
I realize the question was posed as a day hike, but for BPing, my two main principles of dealing with rain are to keep my trunk dry whenever possible, and to protect at all costs the dryness of the clothes in my pack. (Which generally means keeping them in my pack, as opposed to on my body.) I don't generally layer under my rain shell (while a actually hiking) unless I'm so cold that hypothermia is a concern. And if I did, I'd have to cut my walking pace in half in order to not sweat my layers out.
If the rain is really bad, I'll stop and hunker down rather than sweat out my clothing. In the high Rockies, I try to make camp early in the day whenever possible to avoid being on the move when the monsoon storms hit.
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Post by BigLoad on Oct 28, 2015 12:10:24 GMT -8
I agree that getting wet is sometimes unavoidable. Sometimes I enjoy that feeling when wet clothes under rain gear warm up enough to not be miserable. The same is true for cold, wet socks. Eventually they become warm wet socks, which is a welcome improvement.
I also make a project out of trying to dry wet gear after setting up camp. When I'm out solo, it's nice to be busy with such things on a long evening. That includes drying with body heat. I can pat myself on the back for every five minutes I spend in wet clothes, a few notches colder and more uncomfortable than I would be if I changed into long unders. I convince myself that it will be worth it tomorrow when I have to put those clothes back on. I might even be eligible to eat another oatmeal if I do a couple more five or ten minute stints.
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Post by rebeccad on Oct 28, 2015 12:54:45 GMT -8
I admit I'm unlikely to schedule a 6-7 hour dayhike if I know it's going to be 55 and raining all day I have a lot of trouble around those temps: it's too cold to just wear shorts and capeline and let it rain on me, and too warm for me to hike while wearing rain gear. So I'm soaked either way, which means I basically can't stop, because then I'll freeze (obviously, under those conditions I'd want to carry some kind of shelter and a change of clothes). If it's colder, I will be fine in my gore-tex; if it's warmer, I just wear less and change later (not always super comfy, what with wet undergarments, but better than setting up a sauna inside my rain gear). I've given up on gore-tex boots. My feet sweat buckets even when ice cold.
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Post by trinity on Oct 28, 2015 13:05:35 GMT -8
I admit I'm unlikely to schedule a 6-7 hour dayhike if I know it's going to be 55 and raining all day I think this is the first intelligent response yet!
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Post by hikerjer on Oct 28, 2015 13:22:44 GMT -8
I think this is the first intelligent response yet! Oh, come on now. What is the Norwegians say? "No such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing."
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Post by 1camper on Oct 28, 2015 15:09:09 GMT -8
As far as gtx boots go, I've found a wide disparity in waterproofness. The best ime, are one piece leather which are incredibly heavy when wet but will actually stay dry for 7 hrs. I've never had a synthetic gtx boot that would stay dry that long. ..and 7 hours is a long time to have wet feet.
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Post by rebeccad on Oct 28, 2015 15:19:43 GMT -8
Oh, come on now. What is the Norwegians say? "No such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing." I don't know. There can also be bad judgment, right?
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Post by Crockett on Oct 28, 2015 16:15:03 GMT -8
At those temps I'd wear the same thing I would wear anytime I hike - synthetic hiking pants, wool hiking socks and a synthetic, long-sleeve button-up hiking shirt with a collar. And a ball cap to shelter my glasses from the rain. It has to get colder than that for me to wear rain gear while on the move. Even in winter I will often layer down to my base layer after 15 minutes to avoid overheating.
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Post by hikerjer on Oct 28, 2015 16:38:36 GMT -8
I don't know. There can also be bad judgment, right? True confessions?
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Post by rebeccad on Oct 28, 2015 20:48:46 GMT -8
Who, me?
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Post by toejam on Oct 29, 2015 1:28:59 GMT -8
I'm not day hiking in nasty weather. If the weather turns bad on me, it doesn't much matter what I'm wearing cuz I'm getting back to the car as fast as I can.
Californians can afford to be chosey about these things.
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