snip 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. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Ed Sullivan wrote: snip > > 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. > My current cold-weather hand protection consists of a pair of NRS 2mm Neoprene "Paddlers Gloves" combined with some Snap Dragon hypalon pogies. This combo keeps my hands nice and warm when paddling in 20F temps and still affords a significant degree of protection if I end up in the water. Dave Seng Juneau, Alaska *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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