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dirtygoat

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What are you wearing on the trail???

Winters coming and most will be bundling up to keep warm while they wheel... I thought we could all put together a list of what we're wearing to keep warm... Maybe share some ideas that might help others...

I put this in the Garage so it could be replied to by everyone that has some helpful input...



Here's what I wear...


1. Feet

Usually some Dickies work socks and Georgia Boot Romeos... As it gets colder I throw on some wool socks over the Dickies and the Sorel Snow Boots...


2. Lower Body

Most of the time Carharts(double knee) or the Key knockoffs... As it gets colder I'll throw some flannel pjs under them... Then cheap rain pants over that when it's rainy or snowy...


3. Upper Body

T-shirt most of the time, then a hoodie followed be a Dickies mechanics jacket as it gets colder... With rain or snow a cheap rain suit jacket over everything...


4. Hands

The blue or yellow knit gloves coated with rubber most of the year... Then I usually buy a cheap pair of ski gloves as it gets colder, because I have a habit of losing them...


5. Head

I really don't wear anything other than a baseball hat or pull over the hood on my hoodie... I've been looking at some goggles and ski masks lately though...


What are you wearing this winter???
 
Summer: hat, shoes, shirt, and pants... sometimes shorts. I use ski goggles on dusty trails.
Winter: I dont wheel. I snowboard.
 
I am usually under dressed and freezing when ever i have to step out of the truck.
typically i wear. regular socks and lightly insulated red wing boots. jeans and maybe some longjohns. t shirt and hoodie.
then huddle around the tail pipe to warm the mits
 
California :deal:

Timberland work boots, jeans or cargos, sweater or riding jacket, hat or beanie. You know, for the severe winters :haha:
 
My K5 does not have a working heater in it, to start, and we also have topless wheeling weekends in the dead of winter just cause we are Canadian and find that kind of thing amusing, haha

I have a pair of sorel boots that are a couple sizes too big and are rated for -40F weather. I do not wear socks with the boots however (hate elf socks and big boots do it to ya every time....). I always carry a spare set of work boots and a couple pairs of socks incase I manage to get my feet wet somehow.

For a base layer, I normally wear long johns and a sleeveless shirt. I then put a normal pair of jeans and a t-shirt on top. I then put on a hoodie, and a pair of insulated coveralls. If I get too hot, I'll pull a layer or two off.

For gloves, I wear a pair of insulated mechanic's gloves and pull on a pair of mittens overtop if it is really cold out. For my head, I have a toque and an open face balacalva that fits in under my coveralls to keep my neck warm as well.

Decked out like that, I am good to as cold as it'll get up here in Canada. I can hang outside all day like that, though I may need to pull on a scarf & a ski mask to cover the rest of my face if it gets below -35 or so.
 
K85 Octane said:
:confused: I don't understand. :dunno: must be Celsius mumbo jumbo

nice outfits guys, I'd love to do snow quading or 4x4ing. :woot: Got to take me into the nearest wallmart or whatever first. Do some shoppin
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...-35c is about the same thing as Fahrenheit when you get that low...the scale isn't linear

((-35C*9)/5)+32 = -31F

If it's not flip-flop and shorts weather for me, it's time for bunny boots and Refrigiwear.

Bunny boots are the only boots that I have had zero frostbite issues with out hunting over the years, plus they're like $30 at pawn shops.
Refrigiwear is what slope workers have been using forever. It's light, warm, and flexible. Only problem is if you have to do much hiking or digging, you'll give yourself heat-stroke. A lot of guys I ride with won't wear it even on snowmachining trips up at Eureka when it's -40F cuz it's too hot.

Biggest thing is no cotton. "Cotton kills". I'll skip a layer before I wear something that is a hydrophilic/polar fiber. It just ends up becoming a useless, heavy heatsink the second you sweat or find any humidity.

The past few years I've started wheeling with gloves a lot. I wear a thin-knit, nitrile/vinyl glove that are about a $1.50/pair when I'm shingling. My favorite are North NF-11s, but Atlas sells a similar one (just doesn't hold up to shingles as long). They keep your hands from getting abrasions from the ice and they keep you from getting that flash-burn from cold metal when your hand is damp, but they still have enough dexterity for me to do hand-nail all day.
 
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Most off my wheeling is done in wet mud more than cold snow.

In warm weather I wear a hat, white t shirt (I usually bring a couple spares cause I sweat A LOT), drawers, shorts and some type of bibs.

If I'm going to be in the mud or water a lot I'll wear waders and wader boots.

If not I wear regular bibs. I prefer Round House because they wear like iron. For boots I'll wear my work Ariats or my hot weather Bellvilles. The later I usually prefer because they are lace up and offer more ankle control on rocky ground.

In the winter it does sometimes get below zero. For that I'll wear a few layers of regular clothes (long johns, jeans and tee shirt etc), my insulated Gortex bibs, Gortex APECS or a Carthart duck jacket and my Gortex Redwings.

I really prefer bibs because if you get over heated you can revert back to short or whatever and they usually are really tough.
 
I dont "wheel" in the winter, but I do have to work in it often. So here is my list.......made up mostly of Air Force issued gear.


Head: usually ball cap, but a beanie for those downright miserable cold days.

Neck/Face: usually nothing, but I always carry a balacalva or similar just in case. I do have those neoprene face masks, but my constant 5 o'clock shadow makes them a little bothersome to wear.

Base layer top: tshirt (long or short), hoodie

Bottom: polyfiber thermals and jeans

Outer layer top: I have so many jackets it's unreal. I have my uniform Gortex for wet snow/light rain and my uniform rain jacket for the monsoon type rain. There's the Dickies short jacket for just cold or light snow and the uniform parka for the downright nasty cold stuff. I also have a polarfleece liner for the Gortex and rain jackets, but that's mostly when I'm in uniform, not civvies. The hoodie is the civy counterpart.

Bottom: Usually nothing more than jeans, but I do have my uniform Gortex pants for bitter cold/wet snow/light rain and my uniform rain pants. I have a fleece liner for those too, but I've never used it.

Hands: I have several pairs of gloves, but I use two pretty religously. My Mechanix gloves are with me all the time. I can handle down to 0* with just those. But I have thick snowmobile gloves if I'm hanging out outside and just need to stay warm. I also have biga$$ mittnes, but even at -25, they are just too hot to wear.

Feet: Again I have so many boots, it's stupid. One pair I wear pretty much all year. Hot weather Bellvilles with nylon/cotton blend socks. Wool socks for the really cold days. But I also have insulated Bellevilles with studs for those times that I need the traction or I'm trailbalzing in the snow. Careful withthe studs, they'll tear up a linoleum floor in a hurry.

I also have alot of extra stuff, and if I'm going to be away from civilization or out on the road, I'll carry the extras in a weather proof bag, just in case.
 
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