[Paddlewise] Hats and gloves

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That evening, while putting out the trash, I found my hat,
discarded without
ceremony by my wife.  "You need a new hat.  That one is
horrible.  It was
falling apart and it is too small."  True, the color is
gone, the sweat band is
frayed away, the brim is falling apart.  Salt water had been
at work too long.
I looked sadly at it, and closed the lid on my old friend.
Its time had gone.

unsnip

Yoiks; if my S.O. canned a cherished accoutrement without
prior discussion, there would be some serious sharing of
feelings. You are better than me.

My 4 dollar blaze hunters' cap is good with varying
skullcaps. From the thin polypro cycler's warmer to my fuzzy
rubber immersion chapeau. In hot weather it holds water well
for evapo-cooling. At 4 bucks, it doesn't hurt so much to
lose them. Once I got dumped surf-landing in heavy fog,
rolled up and saw it  floating off behind me and said:
fuggedaboutit.

I've been experimenting with the rubber gloves over liners
set-up lately. Though it's only been in the high 30s here,
it takes my digits a while to warm them. Now I fill a couple
of designer water bottles (the only reason I ever by them is
for the bottles) with hot water and put them in the gloves.
Toasty.  Though I like drinking cold water, this still-warm
stuff is probably better for a body working on maintaining
heat.

I'm currently using wool liners. I tried my nice thick REI
fleece gloves, and after only about 4 hours of paddling, the
seams were worked open in places.


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