[pct-l] Dealing with wet down clothing

[ned at mountaineducation.org]

Just a note regarding dealing with wet/damp down clothing:

On a recent Search and Rescue last Sunday night (a few notes on this on my 
Facebook page) two of the four victims were soaked and needed dry and warm 
clothing to wear while descending down the snow-covered cliff and out the 
three miles to the trailhead in the snow storm near Echo Summit, hwy. 50, 
Ca.. I gave my Mountain Hardwear Sub Zero hooded down parka to the tall male 
and the Everest-styled, Absolute Zero full-body suit to the little female. 
Both down garments got pretty soaked on the way out at 0300, but dried 
really fluffy in a day of hanging out in the cabin with the heater on 
(outside temps here in Tahoe still in the teens at night!). On the way out 
the male said that he owned a Mtn. Hrdwr. down sweater (of course he didn't 
bring it on a weekend hike where snow was forecast!), but that the Sub Zero 
was so warm and toasty, he would have to buy one once he got back to the Air 
Force Base. The girl, who was slightly injured, quite wet, hypothermic, and 
exhausted, once in the suit, stated that she was warm and dry even though we 
had to glissade the steep granite fields and "bush-whack" through 
snow-covered tree branches most of the way to the trucks. She was so wasted 
from being cold and fatigued that she was walking like a "zombie" the last 
mile out, just one step in front of the other....




"Just remember, Be Careful out there!"

Ned Tibbits, Director
Mountain Education
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