I am using the montbell dynamo pants. I have had them out in rain and rain/snow mix while wearing a zpacks ground sheet poncho. They are so light that they absorb almost no water and my skin underneath stayed dry. Only downside is no pockets at all.<div>
Sean<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Jim and_or Ginny Owen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spiriteagle99@hotmail.com" target="_blank">spiriteagle99@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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The CDT is generally a dry trail. I wear nylon/supplex pants, which provided enough protection for rainy/snowy days, and for hiking in deep snow. The rain storms you get tend to be summer thunderstorms. Rain pants aren't needed for those, and nylon pants dry extremely quickly. If you usually hike in shorts, rain pants could be helpful when hiking in spring snowpack (either Montana if SOBO or Colorado if NOBO.) Your legs can get pretty torn up while postholing in deep snow without some protection. I carried shorts, but rarely wore them except while doing laundry, because there were enough blowdowns, biting flies, mosquitoes, etc. to make long pants a necessity for me. When it got really cold in the fall, my nylon pants were warm enough as long as I kept moving. In camp I wore long underwear. <br>
<br>Ginny<br> <br><div><div></div>> From: <a href="mailto:johnston73@me.com" target="_blank">johnston73@me.com</a><br>> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:25:22 -0400<br>> To: <a href="mailto:Cdt-l@backcountry.net" target="_blank">Cdt-l@backcountry.net</a><br>
> Subject: [Cdt-l] Rain Pants?<div class="im"><br>> <br>> who has / is carrying / carried rain pants on the CDT ? <br>> are they needed ? <br>> <br>> I didnt have any for the PCT or AT .. <br>> <br></div>
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