<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body>I never really got my Columbia Titanium white hiking shirt clean.<div>There were always packstains.</div><div>But having almost always (always) hammed it up for the camera.. you can't see them.</div><div>I recommend a size larger than you normally wear.</div><div>Kept me cool and kept the schnozzles of mossies at bay in the Wind River range in July.</div><div><br></div><div>I used whatever detergent was in the "soap center" at whatever coin-op laundry I was at.</div><div><br></div><div>By the way, to this day, I have an affinity for laundromats.</div><div>I am sane I assure you but..</div><div>I still do my laundry at a coin op and sometimes wash my socks and armits in the sink even though I am not hiking..</div><div>Okay..I exagerrated about the pits.</div><div><br></div><div>As for the white shirt?</div><div>I always made a point to dramtically straighten the collar and stand up straight.. did a sort of "captain Picard" thing as cars were coming up close.. just to show them I was trying to be presentable and such.</div><div>Plus, they hadn't smelled me yet.. that helps.</div><div>"Hey, there's a hiker in white", "let's pick 'it' up"</div><div><br></div><div>Anyhow, damn i'm jealous!</div><div>You had cuben before I did.</div><div>You had stocks and bonds "making money" for you while away.</div><div>Now you are hiking the CDT!</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers Man!</div><div><br></div><div>Iceaxe- aka Matt Edwards </div><div><br></div><div>Embrace the CDT Miner!</div><div><br><br><br><span style="font-size:87%">Sent from my Samsung smartphone on AT&T</span></div></body></html>