<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>For those who don't like hiking with or carrying rain pants, but need something to wear while doing laundry, I stumbled upon an option. While hiking the PCT SOBO in Northern CA, I mailed my rain pants ahead from Ashland because it was getting too hot to wear them. When we got to Seiad Valley, I realized I didn't have anything to wear while doing laundry! I ended up improvising by wearing my rain jacket upside down and essentially turning it into a skirt. A word of caution to male hikers, be very careful zipping it up or down, in this case. Don't make the rookie mistake I made!</div>
<div><br></div><div>To answer the question of of carrying them on the CDT. Living and hiking in Southern CO, I carry them because I like to have a multipurpose layer in camp. You will often be at over 12,000 ft (think Forester Pass). Hiking in early or late season, as most CDTers do, it can get pretty chilly and the rain is cold, not refreshing. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Rob "Dad" Mabry PCT '05 <br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Mar 27, 2013, at 4:27 AM, Scott Piddington <<a href="mailto:sp2mtns@yahoo.com">sp2mtns@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>I don't like hiking in long pants. I find rain pants drag on my legs so much that even when I carried them I only used them in town on laundry day. For my CDT hike I made a rain skirt out of a bit of sil-nylon. I looked up "how to make wrap skirts" on the web. I am not much of a stitcher so it is not fancy. It comes down to just above my knees. It keeps my shorts dry. It has a couple of velcro pieces at the waist. When the wind shifts you just spin it around. And yes I wore it to do laundry. It was perfect.</span></div>
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<div style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Sean Staplin <<a href="mailto:seanstaplin@gmail.com">seanstaplin@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Jim and_or Ginny Owen <<a href="mailto:spiriteagle99@hotmail.com">spiriteagle99@hotmail.com</a>> <br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> cdt-l <<a href="mailto:cdt-l@backcountry.net">cdt-l@backcountry.net</a>> <br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, March 26, 2013 9:36 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Cdt-l] Rain Pants?<br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv1155856575">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="yiv1155856575gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Jim and_or Ginny Owen <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:spiriteagle99@hotmail.com">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 rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:johnston73@me.com">johnston73@me.com</a><br>> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:25:22 -0400<br>> To: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:Cdt-l@backcountry.net">Cdt-l@backcountry.net</a><br>
> Subject: [Cdt-l] Rain Pants?<div class="yiv1155856575im"><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>
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