[pct-l] Fwd: High Sierra clothing

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good afternoon, Liam,

I wear athletic shorts and don’t carry long pants for any reason, except in
rainy Washington I may carry SilNylon chaps.  The answer for cold legs at
the beginning of the day is to walk.  At the end of the day the answer is to
crawl into the bag and sleep.  A slightly warmer sleeping bag is much more
weight-efficient than carrying sleeping clothes, however it is good practice
to pick a sleeping system that includes the jacket that you’ll be carrying
anyway.  There’s an old saying, “On a cold night if you don’t sleep wearing
everything you brought, then you brought too much.”

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Steel-Eye

Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965

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On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Liam Henebry <liamh760 at gmail.com> wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Liam Henebry <liamh760 at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 8:30 AM
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] High Sierra clothing
> To: Paul Robison <paulrobisonhome at yahoo.com>
>
>
> I was thinking up until the high sierra's I cold wear my longjohns and my
> shorts and the option to put my rain pants on over that, for colder
> mornings
> and nights. I was just wondering if I should bring a little heavier pair of
> pants than rain pants and longjohns for the Sierra section?
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Paul Robison <paulrobisonhome at yahoo.com
> >wrote:
>
> > some of the montbell down jackets are really light, in the range of 8 or
> 9
> > ounces.  mine is of exceptionally good quality and quite warm when paired
> > with a
> > shell (which your OR rain jacket will work well)
> >
> > do you mean need a 'second' pair of pants for the sierras?  or are you
> > hiking
> > without any pants up to that point?   ...man i would be fried red if i
> > tried
> > that.
> >
> > ~Paul
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Liam Henebry <liamh760 at gmail.com>
> > To: "pct-l at backcountry.net" <pct-l at backcountry.net>
> > Sent: Mon, November 22, 2010 5:27:17 PM
> > Subject: [pct-l] High Sierra clothing
> >
> > Hey everybody, I am wondering what are some of the extra upper and lower
> > layers
> > other thru hikers are going to bring with them for the High Sierra's? I
> am
> > planning on carrying my OR rain jacket for the whole hike, so I was
> > thinking
> > that my synthetic middle weight OR jacket would be warm enough, with the
> > option
> > of wearing all of my under layers if I am really cold. Also I can't
> decide
> > if I
> > need a pair of pants for the high sierra's.
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the help
> >
> > Liam
> >
> >
> > P.S. Is anybody else as sick of planning as I am, I just want to GO
> > already,
> > hahha
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