Dugan
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Percious: time to invent the "mansierre" or perhaps a sports bro
Sweat - How do you handle it?
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Gremlin
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I have a buddy with the same problem. Like John, above, he went to a 'softshell' system - Arc'terix or Schoeller. Just to give you an idea, he now hikes with a coating of white frost when it's cold enough. He also wears two pairs of Smartwool socks and stops to wring them out regularly.
A lot of people have good ideas about prevention. One more tip, softshells and windstopping fleece have a G-Tex membrane and thehy just won't breather efectively under a hard shell. Two membranes are too much.
A lot of people have good ideas about prevention. One more tip, softshells and windstopping fleece have a G-Tex membrane and thehy just won't breather efectively under a hard shell. Two membranes are too much.
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Aching Nipples
When I am down to just one layer and still dripping from the forehead, I have that awful nippleitus too. Maybe down pasties?
I hike in Hot Chiles and fleece shorts all winter with a wicking undershirt covered with a polypro shirt. Covering all this depends upon the expected or actual temperature and wind. I pull layers off very soon into the exertion, but still have to wear a rolled bandana to keep the sweat from running into my eyes and blinding me. The stuff just pours out of my head going uphill, but not downhill. I look at the other hikers with me and they seem to have nary a drop of sweat on their faces. Hats and all. Here I am with no hat, head covered with ice from frozen perspiration, and the rest of me is dry. I usually only put a hat on when I am stopped.
Sure would like to be normal
TomW
When I am down to just one layer and still dripping from the forehead, I have that awful nippleitus too. Maybe down pasties?
I hike in Hot Chiles and fleece shorts all winter with a wicking undershirt covered with a polypro shirt. Covering all this depends upon the expected or actual temperature and wind. I pull layers off very soon into the exertion, but still have to wear a rolled bandana to keep the sweat from running into my eyes and blinding me. The stuff just pours out of my head going uphill, but not downhill. I look at the other hikers with me and they seem to have nary a drop of sweat on their faces. Hats and all. Here I am with no hat, head covered with ice from frozen perspiration, and the rest of me is dry. I usually only put a hat on when I am stopped.
Sure would like to be normal
TomW
jfb
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I'm surprised more hikers don't wear wool. Here's a link that describes the qualities that make wool work so well:
http://www.ibexwear.com/why_wool_new.php
http://www.ibexwear.com/why_wool_new.php
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I wore my Icebreaker merino wool top the week-end before last while ice climbing. Temps were c.-24°C and so I wore it over my polypro base layer and under my down sweater under the G-Tex parka. With 200 wt fleece pants over polypro base layer and under my bibs, fleece balaclava under the helmet and plastic boots I didn't need a belay parka.
I usually wear my wool top casually - it was a gift, I couldn't afford one normally.
It's a great top and practical, but I don't think it's a solution for people with a real perspiration problem - you should SEE my buddy and his frost coating.
I usually wear my wool top casually - it was a gift, I couldn't afford one normally.
It's a great top and practical, but I don't think it's a solution for people with a real perspiration problem - you should SEE my buddy and his frost coating.
Panama Jack
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My experience today with sweating
I'm not sure of the names or materials of the shirts,fleeces, synthetics etc that I own. They are a box full of this and that.
I am a hardcore sweater. Like my signature used to say "I'm sweating like a pig"! and its very true.
Today hiking on the Garfield Trail, I packed (as a field experiment specifically for this thread)three seperate shirt combos,(a wicking layer and fleece) and changed 3 times. It was the best feeling to have dry clothes on throughout the day. My outer layer is a Mtn Hardware Shell and it came on BRIEFLY during the day.
I also had 4 sets of gloves as sweat runs down my arms and into my gloves, as well as my hands being little sweat machines. I thought I had finally found the answer, but...... Carrying all those extra layers on top of what a prudent person packs even for a day hike in winter. I never made the summit. I flopped down from exhaustion with only .8 to go! ( I'm sure the 3:00am wake time and 3 hours of sleep (honest)had nothing to do with it)
The weight made me sweat even more!!!!!!! Is that a catch 22 from hell or what?????
I'm not sure of the names or materials of the shirts,fleeces, synthetics etc that I own. They are a box full of this and that.
I am a hardcore sweater. Like my signature used to say "I'm sweating like a pig"! and its very true.
Today hiking on the Garfield Trail, I packed (as a field experiment specifically for this thread)three seperate shirt combos,(a wicking layer and fleece) and changed 3 times. It was the best feeling to have dry clothes on throughout the day. My outer layer is a Mtn Hardware Shell and it came on BRIEFLY during the day.
I also had 4 sets of gloves as sweat runs down my arms and into my gloves, as well as my hands being little sweat machines. I thought I had finally found the answer, but...... Carrying all those extra layers on top of what a prudent person packs even for a day hike in winter. I never made the summit. I flopped down from exhaustion with only .8 to go! ( I'm sure the 3:00am wake time and 3 hours of sleep (honest)had nothing to do with it)
The weight made me sweat even more!!!!!!! Is that a catch 22 from hell or what?????
