Layering Clothing While Hiking

Video Transcript

"Hi, now I'm going to talk about how to dress and how to layer properly for your day out in the woods. Take a look at some different types of clothing. You want to start with your base layer, get a polypropylene t-shirt like this. What it will do is wick away the sweat, it's really comfortable, nice lightweight material, and it'll keep the sweat off your skin so you stay warmer. Next you'll want another long sleeve shirt, this one is the same kind of material, same polypropylene material, it's comfortable, also wicks away sweat. Over that, if it's cold out, you can have a long sleeve shirt like this one I was wearing. This also wicks so it'll keep the sweat off my skin. You want to make sure that you're not wearing any cotton, otherwise, your day out, you're going to be really wet and uncomfortable. You can also have pants which will keep the wind and rain out as well as keep you warm if it's a little bit cool. Lastly, you can have a heavier fleece jacket, which will keep you warm if it's cold and it'll keep you somewhat dry if it starts raining. You want to make sure that you have polar fleece because wool and things like that are nice but polar fleece has the best warmth to weight ratio that you can buy, and, they're pretty cheap. So, invest in some of this and your day out will be a wonderful time in the woods."