forest wrote:I'm prefering a rain wrap.
forest wrote:Depends on the location.
north-north-west wrote:I'm a wuss. I hate walking with wet shoes or pants. So if it's raining or the scrub's wet, I'm in the overpants. Usually just with shorts on the warmer weather.
Hallu wrote:But so far I haven't encountered hot + wet, maybe some Queenslanders could give us some advice.
wayno wrote:rain can be insdious,, to start with it can feel great, cooling you down when you're hot, but as nq writes, it steadily saps the heat from you, cool water continually removing warmth from you, slowly dropping your temperature, you dont bother putting overtrousers on, if it rains long enough and you add wind chill you can look at some serious amount of cooling, often if you can keep walking you will get through just colder for the experience, but its hard to know if you will get out of the elements before hypothermia hits, or you have to stop before you get out o the elements, i know runners who've died running in the rain for an hour. doesnt matter how well you know the weather where you're going you can still get freak weather that trumps it, in NZ even very experienced trampers get caught out with hypothermia when the weather ends up a lot worse than their extensive experience told them it should be... in recent years the weather has been more deceptive... over a period of time , a greater portion of the time the weather is good compared to years gone by, but the bad weather when it comes is worse... average wind speeds have been increasing half to one percent a year since the eighties, some places there are more heavy rain events. global warming might be real but its also changed weather patterns exposing some places to more cold weather... i'm used to seeing it snow in the south island in summer, sometimes theres reasonable dumps
slparker wrote:The other ingredient is fuel, if heat is pouring out one end add food into the other. I agree wet + wind is a pernicious mix, I get so hot walking that I've made the mistake of under dressing for the wet. Th problem with me is that if I add a layer I get too hot. Decided now that whenever I stop I throw a synthetic puffy on over the top whether its dry and cold or wet and cold. That and eat something at least every 30 mins when working hard.
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