[pct-l] rain pants

[DayLate07 .]

Rain pant are not needed because generally you are waterproof and rain will
not hurt you.  What will hurt you, and bad, is getting cold.  As long as
you have a method of staying warm in the rain you are all set.  Rain pants
can make it much easier to stay warm but there are other ways to do this,
a rain kilt, a poncho, or just walking fast enough to keep warm and darting
into a shelter before you get too cold can also work.  But the idea of just
using a shelter will probably not work with trying to make the miles per
day needed to complete a thru hike in one season - if you have to stop
every time it rains you may find to have to stop too much or can't actually
make if from town to town with enough food.  Think about encountering 5
days of straight rain in Washington.

The challenge is to stay warm no matter what the weather is.  If you can
stay warm without rain pants when the sky is dumping rain in buckets and
the temps are in the low 40s then you will be fine.

I used a sil-nylon rain skirt on the PCT and that worked well for me.  YMMV

Day-Late



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