Rain ?

**Graham** · 10th March 06, 04:18 AM

Originally Posted by auld argonian

There's a great book on camping that I have that was written by an author that seems to be mostly a very crabby old guy from Minnesota. In it he advises you that jeans are right out...the "trousers of death" if you get them wet...cotton holds the water and hypothermia (and a slow, miserable death out in the outback where your body will be picked at by coyotes and not found for weeks) follows. His advice is to go with wool trousers...Heller Hanson or Helly Hanson or something like that is the specific brand that he recommends.

No jeans, no worries.

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AA

Spot on, jeans are the worst things to wear when hiking in bad weather. I did a seven day hike in jeans in very tough conditions 30 years ago. The problems it gave me in my knees have been with me ever since.

PV kilts are good if it's not cold and the kilt can get some breeze to dry out, otherwise wool is good, with a long goretex jacket. I bought one that is extra long and almost covers the kilt.

I would be unsure about denim and other cotton kilts too for extreme weather conditions.

**mddock58** · 10th March 06, 06:19 AM

Remembering back to a hike in California 30 yrs ago, my brother an I wearing jeans, and it starts raining. We were going over a pass that still had a good amount of snow covering it (even though it was the middle of summer) and because of the way the jeans just soak up the water, my brother ended up with a bad case of chills.

Jeans can be great in some ways, but get them wet, and they are cold, heavy, and extremely uncomfortable! (You'd never want to be unbifurcated more than when you're wearing soaking wet jeans........talk about chaffing!!!)

**auld argonian** · 10th March 06, 07:58 AM

I'm looking forward to what has become our annual camping trip to Minnesota this year...we always meet up with a family from Minnesota who have become our camping buddies and the dad is a very experienced camping afficianado...knows all of the tricks and whatnot. He always looked askance at me because I have always worn jeans...I don't even wear shorts when I'm out there - it could be 95 degrees - I don't wear shorts. He himself has some weird looking but camping appropriate pants that he always wears...But THIS year! THIS year....this year I'm wearing the kilts! My buddy will almost certainly take this as "one-upsmanship"...so he'll HAVE to find some way to trump me the next year...this ought to be fun.

Yet another of the many advantages of the kilt.....

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AA