Tops

I like to be warm. I try to be strong enough to carry an extra warm layer in my pack, just in case. I know that is not traveling light, but it is safe.

Packing Comments

Town Shirts

4 cotton shirts for traveling and relaxing

Technical Tees

6 running tops to be worn on hot days or as a base layer.

Long Sleeve Light Weight Shirts

10 basic light mountain base layers. We like the wool shirts but you have to be careful washing and drying it. We choose capilene instead. Works great. We might add a couple of mid-weight zip tees to the duffle just in case.

Overshirt

5 light stretchy shirts. They add warmth and wind protection.

Vest

A lightweight synthetic vest, must pack small.

Synthetic Insulated Pullover

A basic warm layer of synthetic fill. A good all around piece of insulation. Sort of like a heavy wool sweater. Same warmth, but less weight. We use Patagonia Puffball Pullovers.

Down Jacket

A very light and very warm jacket. Weighs less than a pound. We use a Western Mountaineering jacket.

Camp Jacket

We like to have a warm camp jackets for those cool evenings and cold mornings. We use an efficient Puff Jacket, similar to the Puffball but with a hood and a zipper. Very warm and casual.

Wind Top

We will probably bring a couple of wind tops. I used to always wear one over my base layer and then layered on top of it. Now I use overshirts instead. I bring them if I just want to do something different. Amy uses them more than me.

Waterproof Rain Jacket

An absolute waterproof jacket. If I bring it with me it’s to wear if I get wet or cold. You don’t walk in the jacket, instead you put it on and wait the storm out. My jacket is a Mountain Hardware, Amy uses an Equinox.

Gore tex Jacket

A light waterproof breathable jacket with a good hood, pit zips, and ventilation tricks that allow us to adjust our temperature.

 

Post-Trip Comments

We cut back on the quantities of most things. Orginally we were thinking of going a minimum of two weeks and a maximum of three weeks between laundry days. More realistically we saw that we were going to have to take a break every ten to fourteen days.

Cotton Shirts

We wore one every chance we got.

Tech Tees

I swapped back and forth between Long Sleeve and Tees, with little difference in performance.

Long Sleeve Shirts

See above.

Overshirts

Only used two. Once the weather was normal (warmer) I wore a wind shirt instead.

Vest

When the weather warmed up, I no longer used it.

Insullated Pullover

I hardly ever wore it but it stayed in my pack

Down Jacket

I did not use mine.

Camp Jacket

I used it daily.

Wind Top

I brought two, one stayed in my pack. I changed wind tops when I changed rain jackets.

Waterproof Jacket

I always carried either the WP jacket or the Goretex.

Gore tex

I always carried either Goretex or the waterproof jacket.