[pct-l] Layering

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good evening, Steve,


I agree entirely.  There’s an old saying among the ultralite bunch, “On a
cold night if you don’t sleep wearing everything you brought, then you
brought too much.”  That’ll probably tick-off the folks who say they always
carry separate sleeping clothes, or that one should never sleep in anything
sweaty, or anything damp, etc.


I just took a look at the recommended gear list in my first Boy Scout
Handbook -- a 1948 copyright.  Almost all of the items listed are very basic
and realistic -- even today for an ultralite hiker – with one notable
exception:  The list includes pajamas.  Someone’s mother must have been
looking over the editor’s shoulder on that one.  I certainly ignored it, and
in years of outings I don’t recall ever seeing a Scout wearing pajamas.  It’s
possible some of the new guys may have brought them along – probably only
once – but didn’t have the temerity to actually wear them.

That may be just a guy-thing:  The Girl Scouts may have all packed
fuzzy-footie-sleepers, for all I know.

Steel-Eye
Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965
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On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Steve McAllister
<brooklynkayak at gmail.com>wrote:

> > I'm not a fan of bag liners because they get twisted around me, and it's
> > just something else to fiddle with.  I suppose they do keep the inside of
> > the bag cleaner, though.
>
>
> Or you could wear your liner in the form of other clothing in your bag.
>
> I personally wear much more than that so I can use a three season bag
> in colder climates.
>
> Example, a 30 degree bag seems to be like a 10 degree bag if you wear
> aone thin and a  medium layer of clothing to bed. It will weigh the
> same if not more than a 10 degree bag, but you can also use the
> clothing as ... clothing, so in the end can get by with a few ounces
> of weight.
>
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