Let's talk about what the hell I'm wearing.
So it's the fall season, temperatures are starting to drop,
those crisp summer nights are fading and for a lot of you
you're starting to put your backpacking gear away. But don't! There's less people
out there, there's the beautiful fall colors. But
for most people where they live, the fall comes with a certain set of
challenges. Here in idaho we know all about the cold and we're
already starting to see it, but don't let that discourage you,
you just have to be prepared. Let's talk about layers.
How to layer, what layers you need, what kind of warmth you're looking for,
how to pack all that extra clothing into your backpack.
Cue that beautiful fall slow motion.
All these YouTubers and influencer types always put this together to look really
nice but really this is the way it is. These are my fall layers. We're just
gonna go over the clothing here today not the sleeping bag or the sleeping pad
arrangement. If you want, I do have a video on that on what i'm using.
You know really it breaks down to in the fall when you're sleeping get an
insulated sleeping pad and then I have my 17 degree Igneo.
You can find my video about these and how to set up your sleeping arrangement
in this card up here, but for right now we're just going to go over the layers.
So first things first what are you going to wear as a shirt as
your base layer. This is nice it's quick dry, It's weatherproof,
32 degrees I think is actually the name of the company and this shirt is great.
There's a lot of shirts like this, just make sure it's long sleeve and
make sure that it's not gonna soak up your sweat
like cotton or anything. These are my hiking pants. They're just
the hiking pants I use in the summer don't worry I'm actually wearing pants
right now but you couldn't see them so. They unzip so
you can turn them into shorts. Moving on to my favorite and what I
think is one of the most important layers
your mid layers. These are my tights, these are smartwool 250 intranet.
You want them tight, you don't want them baggy and these I can hike in
but mostly I just sleep in these or I hang around the campfire in these.
These can go underneath obviously my hiking shorts. This is from rei co-op
it's their basic mid-weight. Once again
you don't want it to get wet when you sweat but you also want it to
to keep you warm. For my socks i'm still wearing my normal hiking socks.
I always bring two hiking, two pairs of hiking socks because obviously one
gets wet then you can wear the other ones but in
the fall I bring a third. The socks that I snowboard in and these
are just for sleeping and yeah it's a little extra room in the bag
but these will keep your feet warm when you go to bed at night.
In the newest video of the Boulder Louis lake loop
I was wearing some gloves in the beginning.
Right when we started Brett was making fun of me for the way I looked with
these gloves. In the morning is when it's the coldest
when you start and if you're like me and you're holding a camera...
That camera is metal and it's cold. I stuck my tripod
in the river to get that last shot and the joints have frozen.
I always have these in my bag they're those like thin
just kind of touch screen gloves. These are from Ozero they work great. By
the way by hike two Brett wasn't shooting much in the
mornings because he had his hands shoved in his pockets and
he thought my gloves weren't that stupid then. To the most important part,
this is my down jacket. This is a very popular down
jacket in the backpacking community. This is the Mountain Hardwear
Ghost Whisperer 2. This is one of the lightest down jackets you can buy
it's 800 fill. Again just to touch on down,
the bigger that number is if it's 600, 700,
800, 850 is usually the top the cream of the crop. This is 800 fill. That just
means you're gonna get more warmth for less
weight and this at eight ounces packs up
really super light. Now these are expensive. This one is about 200 bucks
which is actually a pretty good price. These are expensive
and when I first bought this thing I made the brutal mistake
of wearing it around a campfire. As you can see I was
really hoping to not put a hole in it but i did.
If you get a hole in one of these things you don't sew it or anything like that
you just get some of these repair patches from tenacious tape, it's about five
bucks super easy. You cut it out, you stick it on here it
works like scotch tape. Actually when I noticed this hole I
didn't have any of this lying around and i used scotch tape. It worked really
well and I was really perturbed that I
couldn't sit around the fire and wear down. I mean in the fall you
want to be sitting around the fire and you want to be warm so I was like what
do I take? This is the Trailsmith Woven Pullover by
REI. It's really light, it's really thin, it's
really tough. It literally says on the tag
made to carry firewood and I take this with me
just to be around the fireplace. I can wear this,
I can wear my fleece all my nice stuff and then i throw on this
$20 cheap pullover and it keeps my gear looking nice
looking fresh. It adds an extra layer to keep me warm.
So a good fire hack. Rain gear, definitely take rain gear if
there's clouds in the forecast. It also works as a a wind breaker but
again it's expensive so you probably don't want to wear it
you probably don't want to wear it around the fireplace. Down does not work
well with water so you can't let down get wet
it's not going to protect you. So make sure you have a piece of rain
gear at least over the down. I only usually take pants if i'm really
expecting rain because the hiking pants and everything
you know wick moisture away so well and they quick dry
so fast. But if i know that rain is in the
forecast and i'm expecting rain I will take the
pants and of course I have my beanie. this is a Smart Wool beanie. It's thin,
it's made for backpacking. When you're looking for something to
keep your head warm make sure it's thin don't get one of those big
puffy beanies that are comfy for around town. So the other challenge with
all this stuff here is how do I shove it into my backpack, what's the most
efficient way to carry this, how do I find
room for all this stuff? So the first tip I'll give you is
what's called an army roll. This is how I roll my clothes. Guess where it comes
from, our military does it and I'm not going to go into this
in too much detail there's tons of videos online.
Roll it up. So see here's one. That's rolled. You can do this with pants too and
it's basically just rolling it up and tucking your clothes
into themselves. You can see here
But you can see
Here we go I'm starting to get some rolls going here. Once I get them into
the army roll everything goes into this
compression sack. Blah blah blah blah you get it, you get it.
Shove it down in there usually on top
where I can grab it.
Once again that was a quick kind of haphazard uh
rolling stuff, but you get the idea. Once you stuff it
down into the army roll you can put that all together and stuff it down even more
in a compression sack and then this ends up going in my bag
and saving me a ton of space. So links to all the clothing I use for
fall backpacking in Idaho can be found in the description
below. Don't miss fall, it's a beautiful season.
Stay warm out there. Thanks for watching and we'll see you
next time.