[pct-l] Mosquito pants, rainwear and liner gloves.

[ietura at viajarapie.info]

most hiking pants are bug proof. They're usually made from some dense weave
nylon (supplex, cordura or the like) and mosquitos can't bite through that.
For the top, the typical hiking shirt is usually not dense enough to be bug
proof. Wind shirts usually are, no matter how thin, because of the denser
weave needed to stop the wind.

Marmot Precip is a lightweight nylon outer bonded to the most typical
polyurethane membrane. Waterproof enough but hardly breathable. No reason
for this to not be enough in Washington, just not very breathable but
that's common to most rain wear. Frogg-Toggs is different: non-woven
polypropilene. It's waterproof and breathes much better than tradicional
membranes but being non-woven stuff if feels like paper and the trade-off
is in durability. The lightweight nylon found on Marmot Precip and several
other rain gear is still (despite being thin) more durable than the
Frogg-Toggs stuff. Frogg-Toggs is usually good enough if you take good care
of it as the PCT is not a really rainy place during thru-hiking season so
most of the time the rain gear is in the pack. Many PCT thru-hikers use the
similar yet even flimsier Rainshield or DriDucks.
Rainskirt

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