[at-l] Winter and glasses

[askowronek@mindspring.com (Amy)]

Sloetoe wrote:


> 2) The only way to prevent the breath from hitting the glasses
> is to ("don't do that") *not* pull your neck gaitor up. OK,
> well, that's not quite right: keep the gaitor tight against the
> band below your eyes so that your breath can't sweep right up to
> your glasses, and second, open the gaitor in the area around
> your mouth *and* your nose, and express your exhalation
> thoroughly through that hole. It takes a little practice, but it
> beats having to clean your glasses and reorient yourself while
> people are trying to yell to you over the sounds of the
> veep-veep-veep of swishing nylon right at your ears..... 


I have never made this work.  My head isn't cylindrical.  What
do you do about the gaps that open up allowing warm air to
move in the hollow to either side of your nose?

Even shaped masks (like dust masks) let air up through there.

-amy