Hiking kilt?

**Andrew Breecher** · 3rd February 05, 08:29 PM

I should have mentioned before, but if you're looking for a kilt specically for hiking, I had great experiences with my Bear Kilt - I backpacked 2,000 miles with it, and I can still wear it out as a regular kilt! I hope to go another 2,600 miles with it next summer, from Mexico to Canada.

Andrew.

**Atticus** · 3rd February 05, 08:34 PM

Andrew,

I don't know what you do, but I want your job!

**Andrew Breecher** · 3rd February 05, 08:41 PM

Job? I have to keep quitting my job to go hiking! Show me a job where I get paid to long-distance hike and I'll snatch it up in a heartbeat.

Andrew.

**Verlyn** · 3rd February 05, 08:42 PM

Thanks all for the warm welcome. Andrew, the D-ring on the hips was a big factor in staying with the traditional style. The rings for that (traditional style) are just low enough that my pack belt doesn't dig in. In talking to Michael at the festival he had mentioned that that was one of the main feedback items he had gotten and was looking at that for a modification. As far as the Tartan goes, I got the pattern number for my wife and have looked at fabric sources because my wife has offered to try her hand at making one for me. Has to be the poly-vis, though since she's allergic to wool. Funny story on kilts too. My daughter and her fiance were making friends and family rounds Christmas morning and he wore his kilt that his mother bought for him at the Renn Faire this past year. One friend ask, "Doesn't she have some brothers? They'll beat you up if they see you in that." She giggled and said, "I doubt that since my uncle, dad and brother all have their own and were in on the tartan approval process." I think we should visit them en mass and kilted. Needless to say, there are no issues in my family with kilts.

**Andrew Breecher** · 3rd February 05, 08:47 PM

I just realised there's a picture of someone in the AK hiking kilt in my gallery:

Just to the right of me (in the red shirt), he's wearing an olive AK with the sporran on the side. Most other people are in Sport Kilts. At this hiker festival, SK sold out, and AK only stayed one day. I guess the hiking community isn't ready yet for AK (though not necessarily against plain kilts, as the Mountain Hardware hiking "kilt" [sarong] is represented as well in this picture, and in the long-distance hiking community).

Andrew.