I really like North Face and Exofficio travel type clothes. I can tell I’m getting old because I started wearing long sleeves and pants treated with sawyers bug repellent. I used to wear the zip pants but now I don’t care about shorts much. My short sleeve shirt is a very light wool t shirt. The wool helps with the stink after several days on the trail. The main concern is bug bites. After many trips this summer I can count maybe 10 total bites.Just wondering what is it your wearing on trail? Gym shorts ? Hiking spec shorts / pants? Shirts shortsleeved or long ? Name brand / no name ?
Hikers are like cartoon characters - we wear the same thing every dayDepends. I have two backpacking "uniforms" that don't change much, though. One is "general purpose", while the other is for when temps are expected to be much lower.
A little mix and match happens on occasion, but a synthetic t under L/S nylon button up, and light weight nylon pants with some stretch, like the cheaper outlet version of EB Guide Pros, is typical.
Capilene 2 zipneck under OR Ferrosi hoody, and Marmot Scree softshell pants when it gets colder.
Same spot, similar trips, 4yrs apart, with different weather expectations:
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I'm pretty much wearing one or the other in all my backpacking pics for the last 9yrs.
One of my Facebook friends once asked me, "don't you ever wear anything different?"
No.
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