Clothes to Avoid in Sub Zero Camping

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In this clip I want to talk a little bit about things not to bring to the mountains. If you're in real cold weather, one of the real common articles is down, but you don't want to get wet in down. Down actually loses 70 percent of its heat retention once it's wet. And you can't control the weather, so getting wet, if you're wearing down garments, or even sleeping gear, if your sleeping gear gets wet, it's a life threatening situation. When you're working with wool, a wool garment will still maintain 90 percent of its heat retention, even if it's soaked in the river. You can fall in the river and still maintain 90 percent of its heat retention. So falling in a river on a day like today, 40 degrees out, would be a life threatening situation if you were wearing down. Another common mistake that a lot of people make is they bring rain gear up in the mountains for survival gear. What rain gear does is it traps the moisture within your clothing up against your body. What, by not allowing the moisture to evaporate, this actually makes you colder than you would have been in you kept the rain gear off. If you're actually raining out, but the rain gear on. When it stops raining and you can dry off a little bit, take the rain gear off. I don't recommend hunting with rain gear on because of the noise that the clothing makes. But keeping yourself dry and keeping water out of your clothing and moisture out of your clothing in sub-zero temperatures, it becomes a real critical issue. It it's 30 or 40 degrees out and a little bit damp, it doesn't really matter. If it's 10 degrees below zero or 20 degrees below zero and you put this rain gear on, the moisture that you trap in your clothing will actually freeze in your outer layers of clothing, and you'll loose your insulation effect that you get from the clothing and from the layering that we've done earlier.

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