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Apr 1, 2014 at 2:01 am #2088330
Take a jacket or pocho. Leave the pants and the kilt at home. If you have nylon pants to hike in, they'll dry fast enough for summer in the sierras. I spend bout 30 nights a summer up there and with the exception of a weird wet week a couple of years ago, I have never needed rain pants. If it's that bad, get on your shelter and wait for it to pass. I'd skip the kilt too, but it's a reasonable compromise.
Apr 5, 2014 at 6:40 am #2089901I can't stand hiking in rain pants, because they make me sweat like crazy. If it is warm and rainy, I just leave them at home because my pants (Ramparts) dry really quickly. If it is cold and rainy, then I like to put my rain pants on when I stop hiking. What this seems to do is trap the heat from my body inside of the rain pants, which helps to dry out my pants somewhat. This has made it more manageable since without rain pants I would wake up with cold and wet pants to start the next day in, which isn't fun for the first hour.
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