Hats and Hoods
In my "Upper Body Clothing" post, I forgot my head!
Hats and hoods are really important, and I have some great ones. My favorite hat is a SmartWool thin wool hat with stripes. It is warm, but I don't even feel it on my head. I can pull it down over my eyes while I sleep to make it dark, and it doesn't squish my nose.
The rest of my hats are mostly extras. The soft red Mountain Hardware fleece hat is nice, but just doesn't compete with my wool one. I'll take two billed hats, but I tend not to wear them. I prefer to see the sky. The off-white one is from John Abelson's birthday party a few years ago. I'll try to remember to take a self portrait of me wearing it to send to him. He's one of the discoverers of the first HIV antiretroviral drugs and an amazing scientist.
I will wear my blue neck gator almost all day every day, switching occassionally to my scarf. When it's really cold, I'll wear my dad's Helly Hanson, custom modified hood. I'll take the wind-proof balyclava on the left, but I doubt I'll wear it.
I bought a new pair of Julbo sunglasses, since I broke my pair last year. I bought the polychromatic Nomads. It's taken me a while to adjust them to my face, but now they float on my nose, so I'll be comfortably wearing them all day every day - the joys of wind and UV! I'll also take the same Smiths that I've had for years as back ups. I've decided to go without goggles. I rarely wore the ones issued by NSF, they are expensive, and if I have to be out in weather than needs them, I think I can make due with deep hoods. The times I did like them in the last two years was for loading helos. They kept the sand out of my eyes. But this year, we'll have truck transport rather than helo transport.
Hats and hoods are really important, and I have some great ones. My favorite hat is a SmartWool thin wool hat with stripes. It is warm, but I don't even feel it on my head. I can pull it down over my eyes while I sleep to make it dark, and it doesn't squish my nose.
The rest of my hats are mostly extras. The soft red Mountain Hardware fleece hat is nice, but just doesn't compete with my wool one. I'll take two billed hats, but I tend not to wear them. I prefer to see the sky. The off-white one is from John Abelson's birthday party a few years ago. I'll try to remember to take a self portrait of me wearing it to send to him. He's one of the discoverers of the first HIV antiretroviral drugs and an amazing scientist.
I will wear my blue neck gator almost all day every day, switching occassionally to my scarf. When it's really cold, I'll wear my dad's Helly Hanson, custom modified hood. I'll take the wind-proof balyclava on the left, but I doubt I'll wear it.
I bought a new pair of Julbo sunglasses, since I broke my pair last year. I bought the polychromatic Nomads. It's taken me a while to adjust them to my face, but now they float on my nose, so I'll be comfortably wearing them all day every day - the joys of wind and UV! I'll also take the same Smiths that I've had for years as back ups. I've decided to go without goggles. I rarely wore the ones issued by NSF, they are expensive, and if I have to be out in weather than needs them, I think I can make due with deep hoods. The times I did like them in the last two years was for loading helos. They kept the sand out of my eyes. But this year, we'll have truck transport rather than helo transport.
