[pct-l] Dress Me Up & Pack Me Out, Part 3

[ALightner at aol.com (ALightner@aol.com)]

Dunno much about the buzz off clothing itself, but I loved the Sawyer 
Permethrin treatment.  Its a spray on for clothing and works great.  I'd be in a 
group of deet covered hikers and I'd be the least bothered, even when not using 
deet.  Deet is, of course, a must have for the worst spots.  I had one hairy log 
crossing (at night, all alone, raging creek below) where the millions of 
mosquitos nearly cost me my balance - that was the last time i let someone else 
carry the deet.

One of Blue Moon and Right On's great discoveries was Coghlan's Mosquito 
Coils.  They're really light, super cheap, and take up very little space.  When 
stopping in buggy areas, we'd light 3 of them in a triangle around us, and 
suddenly the bugs would be gone.  Nearly miraculous.  Dunno about potential health 
effeccts...


As for clothing:  
daywear: I tried to carry a pair of socks a day (they're not that heavy!), 
and wore the same long-sleeve ex-officio shirt and ex-officio long pants the 
whole trip.  For some of the sierra fords, I just took em off to keep them from 
getting wet. I wore the same wide-brimmed hat the whole way.  
nighttime: I had a pair of long john pants and a very light fleece shirt for 
sleeping, a fleece cap, a pair of fleece gloves, and usually a dedicated pair 
of sleep socks.  I took a down jacket for potential warmth, but am so 
warmblooded that I wore it maybe 5 times - mostly I used it as a down pillow.  In 
Oregon, I added a pair of fleece pants and a windstopper fleece top.  they were 
nice for camp, breaks, and the first 15 min of hiking.
rain: I carried Frogg Toggs most of the way.  the pants worked great.  I'm 
too hot and sweaty for the jacket.  I cant remember if I actually got rid of the 
jacket, but in Oregon I switched to a silnylon poncho.  I loved it.  I also 
picked up some overmits in oregon - wet gloves aren't much for keeping the 
hands warm.  I tried the seal skins socks - they were great for a while - until 
they wet through.  Once they wet through, then the water couldn't get out and 
the sandpaper fabric ripped my feet apart.

my $0.02

Be well. Hike on.

-Rev. Gizmo


In a message dated 12/26/2004 7:40:26 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
AlohaAnn@adelphia.net writes:

> Subj: [pct-l] Dress Me Up &Pack Me Out, Part 3 
>  Date: 12/26/2004 7:40:26 AM Pacific Standard Time
>  From: AlohaAnn@adelphia.net
>  To: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net, BackpackingLight@yahoogroups.com
>  Sent from the Internet 
> 
> 
> 
> Aloha All!
> 
> It's that time... dress me up and pack me out, part three.  Let's chat 
> clothing, shall we?  Two questions/requests for you.
> 
> Yesterday's fesitivities brought lots of new toys (Garmin GPS 60CS) and 
> other things.  Yeah!  Much to my surprise (tee hee!!) most items were trail 
> related and given to assist in my upcoming Grand Adventure.  Wuhuu!  Everything 
> was wonderful and left me in awe of people's generosity and support of what 
> some consider my mid-life crisises.  Such sweet people.  Anyway, some of the 
> items received revolved around lightweight Buzz Off (insect repellant) clothing. 
>  Nice!  I even like the pants and shirt alot.  I understand a lot of 
> research went into the clothing prior to purchase.  I, though, have limited knowlege 
> and no experience with it.  My question to you is -- does it work and is it 
> worth carrying?  What happens when it's washed?  I know the Deet conversation 
> has been going and someone even mentioned his/her wearing of insect 
> repellant clothing vice using massive amounts of Deet.  So let me have it... what are 
> your thoughts on insect repellant clothing?  Please.
> 
> Second question/request:  I would love to hear the breakdown of clothing 
> items carried for both the desert and Sierra portions of the trail.  Right now 
> I'm just curious as to clothing.  I'm going on the belief that it's all used 
> in conjunction with your sleeping system which we've already discussed.  So if 
> you don't mind and have the time, I'd love to check out everyone's clothing 
> bag for the various parts of the trail.  If you mailed something along the 
> way I'd love to know that also.  Again, please.
> 
> That's it for this round.  As always, any and all comments, suggestions, 
> recommendations, etc are greatly appreciated.  In the meantime, I do hope all 
> are having Happy Happy Times!
> 
> Aloha!
> 
> P.S.  My apologies if this is a dual posting for some -- posting to both 
> PCT-L and Backpackinglight.  Thank you.     
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