almostthere
Trail Wise!
putting on my hiking shoes....
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Post by almostthere on Aug 2, 2016 5:30:51 GMT -8
They all fail someday. They have, they will.
Walking out wearing a trash bag with the soaked through, heavy with water jacket in the pack --- oh yes, that I have done.
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Post by tipiwalter on Aug 2, 2016 5:57:12 GMT -8
Which jacket? Frogg toggs? Marmot? North Face? Arcteryx? I've been soaked thru in my rain jacket plenty of times---in a hard rain it comes into the face and down the neck hole---it comes down the back where the heavy pack presses on the shell resulting in a high hydrostatic head, and thru the shoulders due to the pack's straps---but as mentioned the purpose of a good shell is to keep me warm no matter how wet I am. This is the main purpose of a rain shell---to keep you warm---not to keep you dry.
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almostthere
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Post by almostthere on Aug 2, 2016 7:39:41 GMT -8
Yep, sure, whatevs.
Trip 1 - standing in a heavy rain watching the water run through the campsite. Soaked to the bone while the two friends stayed dry. Jacket was worn maybe once before, barely a month old.
Trip 2 - Wore a plastic poncho while everyone else wore jackets, stayed dry and warm while the eVent, Goretex, etc jackets that cost a car payment on three of the four friends I was with soaked through in the freezing cold hail and rain that ran down the trail two inches deep.
Trip 3 - hiked for 8+ hours in drizzling rain wearing a PU coated poncho tailored with sleeves and hood and plenty of space for the pack. Warm and dry while everyone else got wet and cold. We weren't even hiking so hard, it was an easy trail.
Search and rescue training -- we train in rain and shine because we search in rain and shine. Someone lost a real expensive high band radio on the training, so I stayed with a couple buddies to help find it again. The skies opened up and poured like the wrath of God. A trash bag, duct tape, and an umbrella kept me dry from head to knees, while my feet swam around in water filled Goretex boots - last Goretex I ever wore on my feet. My trail shoes drain. I was dry, my buddies were soaked. It was COLD. Glad I had a car a few miles away but, I would have been fine searching in the rain while my friends were shivering.
You do what works, instead of what works one or two times.
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Post by Coolkat on Aug 2, 2016 8:51:37 GMT -8
PU coated poncho tailored with sleeves and hood and plenty of space for the pack. Warm and dry while everyone else got wet and cold. This is good to hear as I plan on picking up a poncho that sounds very much like this one. I haven't found a rain jacket yet that I've been happy with but then again I haven't spent more than $70 on one either. I'm hoping this poncho works as well as one you described.
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