[pct-l] rain pants

[Dennis Phelan]

Rain pants are also nice to keep your legs dry when walking through the wet
shrubs and grass plentiful in northern Oregon and Washington.

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 7:55 PM, DayLate07 . <dthibaul07 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
> > Rain pants needed for the pct ?? El Nino year?
> >
> >
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