[at-l] Near-Winter hiking, was Winter Hiking

[shane@theplacewithnoname.com (Shane Steinkamp)]

> The type of weather Dave mentions below is what concerns me.
> Not rain, not snow but that 33-degree stuff that chills the
> bones.

33?  That's not so cold...

> 1) Staying warm and dry WHILE hiking (I've heard Nina and
> others mention they couldn't stay warm even while hiking
> sometimes.)

Wear a hat.
Put on extra layers.
Hike faster.

> 2) Staying warm and dry while setting up the tent and making
> supper. I'll have the Nomad 242 for spring.
> It was my experience last March that - not being a 20-
> something "rabbit" - that I could count on the shelter
> spaces down south being all claimed by the time I straggled
> in, and that I needed to plan to set up a shelter. Cold
> hands!

Wear a hat.
Put on extra layers.
Hang a hammock.  (Faster than a tent!)

> 3) Keeping one's attitude positive in what I see as the most
> trying of circumstances, ie, day after day of wet, near-
> freezing cold.

Wear a hat.
Put on extra layers.
Smile.
Take a day off.

> 4) Anything else germane.

Definitely wear a warm hat.

Shane