Prefered Clothing and Layering for the Woods

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morning I'm Dave Canterbury pathfinder school I wanted to talk to you a little bit about clothing today I've had some recent requests to go over some of the types of clothing that I wear and when I prefer and how I layer those types of clothing and I think it's important that we talk about that because cold-weather setting in now we spend a night in a spider shelf the other night a very warm toasty night actually and we talked about moisture barriers and I'd like to talk a little bit about clothing through the seasons in us in Eastern woodland areas and we're not going to talk about arctic type clothing too much but we'll talk about you know colder weather type clothing and I want to show you the types of clothes that I pack and carrying that I wear and how I utilize them in the different seasons and I'll give you what type of clothing they are and the brand names of these clothes and you can find off brands of the same stuff if you want to where you can buy these types but I'll tell you the materials that they're made out of as well during this video and we're going to go over that so if you stay with me I've got a tarp laid out here on this ground is still a little bit wet and I've got my pack out here full of clothes and we'll lay this stuff out and talk to you about it a little bit of time so hang tight guys okay so let's first talk about layering for a minute now let's understand that there are three basic layers to your clothing that you can use you have a base layer you have a thermal insulating layer and then you have an outer layer and the outer layer is really dependent upon what type of weather that you are going to face in your truck or your Scout or the time that you're spending in the wilderness and that also dictates some of your inner clothing as well so I'm going to go over some of this stuff with you guys a little bit of time and we'll talk about it starting with the bottom half of our body from the waist down as far as boots go you know these boots that I wear almost every day are baits 20 to 50 desert combat boots and these are real good warmer weather boot they're pretty good down into the 30s I've got a pair of eights m9 desert boots that are heavier insulated I wear those in cold weather and what I'll do is so those are the type of boots that I generally wear

now if it gets extremely cold then I would change to a cold weather type boot but even the m9 desert boots down into the 20s and the tens of teens things like that they're plenty warm if you know how to layer inside your boots as well we're going to talk about that right now what I'll generally do in just a normal given situation in the summertime or whatever when it's going to be fairly warm is I'll go with a military-type and these are actual military-issue

they're 50% wool 30% cotton and 20% nylon and they're pretty good moisture absorbing sock that's pretty comfortable to wear under your boots they won't make your feet sweat too bad and they wick away a lot of the sweat that does sweat your boots in the summertime and those are just a good summertime sock now during normal weather in the fall time or when it's getting chillier outside notice in the 40s 50s maybe I'll go to a wigwam what's called a hikers sock and it's these are made by wigwam they're way made have a wicking material I don't know exactly what the blend is I think it's very similar to this but it's a heavier sock and I'll put those socks inside my boots and this is what I'll wear when it's a little bit chilly outside but it's not you know stinking cold out I had these on the other night when I slept in the spider shelter my feet were plenty warm now I've got to have your pair of wigwam socks that I wear in much colder weather and they're a little bit thicker and these are like a cold weather sock that's made by wigwam I'm not sure what the blend is on these either but they have a ton of woollen I can tell you that they're probably 80% wool if not 90% what I'll do with these is if I have to go to the extent of wearing this type of sock it's going to be really cold outside and what I'll do is I'll wear a moisture barrier on my feet just like we talked about yesterday with moisture barriers in a spider shelter on our body you can put moisture barriers on your feet that will keep your feet very comfortable it's still quite cold conditions and when way you do that is you put a polypropylene type sock which I don't have any with me today I apologize for that but I use Under Armour

polypropylene type socks and I'll put those on my feet and then I'll take just regular bread bags from a loaf of bread and I save those in my house and I'll put that over my foot and then I'll put a heavier sock like this over top of that as an insulator over the top of that moisture barrier then I'll put my boot on and what that will do is it will if you're wearing a wicking type material sock like a poly sock that will wick the moisture away from your feet because they're going to get warm with that moisture barrier around them but they won't get uncomfortable and that moisture barrier will keep the cold weather and the coldness from getting inside there and getting a dampness from getting inside there and keep your feet good and toasty warm all day long so that's what I'll usually do as far as socks go I got four different types of socks that I'll wear again a polypropylene sock doll wear and extreme cold weather inside a moisture barrier like it like a bread sack I've got a wool blend sock that I wear in the summertime that's real lightweight wicking material and very comfortable when it gets the fall time I'll start going to a heavier type hiker sock by wigwam and we'll have these up for sale on our website I believe canteen shops already got them on our website for sale and then in extreme cold weather I'll go to a heavier wigwam sock again same brand we'll have these for sale as well on our website this winter and I'll go to a moisture barrier layer and on the inside of this with the polypropylene sock against my foot and that is the way that I'll insulate my feet and keep my feet comfortable throughout the seasons okay so we started with our feet we talked about it boots we talked about our socks let's go up to the pant level right now there are three types there's actually four types of pants that I wear one of them I don't wear very often on the three pants that I wear the majority of the time are all of them are made by rail riders and they have three different weights of pants they're all made out of a nylon type material these are called

the first attack light pan they're very light like a three ounce nylon they've got reinforcements everywhere on the knees on the back and ankles in the buttock area is all reinforced as you can see where the fades are on these you can tell where the reinforcements are at they have reinforcements around the cargo pockets cargo pockets have access from the side as well as from the top and the only thing that I've ever destroyed on a pair of these pants is you know I had a you'll get little burns in them like this one right here from being around the fire if you get a pop in the fire but you know takes a long time to wear a pair of these pants out I when I first got these I wore these things quite extensively and I only had two pair and I wore them for about a year solid almost every day in the summer time and I finally ripped a pair of them out and I think was more from repeated washing and bleaching to get the stains and things out of them and it was wearing them actually out so they're very hard wearing pair of pants if you can wear two pairs of pants for a year and before you wear them out you're doing yourself pretty good even if you have to pay the heavy price tag is on these of about 90 bucks a pair so that's the verse attack light now there's also a verse attack mid that is a 7 ounce material and I wear those more in the fall conditions like right now and in early fall and early winter and they're a 7 ounce material exactly the same design as the verse attack light same pocket same zipper on the side to get into the pocket they have these also don't have a lot of reinforcement in but they do have the same types of reinforcement and gusseted knees and things like the other pair does they're just not double material like the other one because they're already a 7 ounce and those are what I wear when it starts to get chilly outside now if it gets colder then I want to wear these but it's not cold enough to wear a heavier pant then what I'll do is I'll take a pair of

Under Armour bottoms that I carry and you don't have to necessarily have hunter Armour brand you just need some type of a polypro wicking layer that you can wear underneath those for like a long underwear type layer and I don't recommend long underwear cuz most of it's made out of cotton I recommend this polypropylene type material that Under Armour is made out of and you can buy off brands and stuff too because Under Armour is quite expensive but it lasts a long time this particular pairs two years old and they're just like almost new and I've worn them hundreds of times I've got two pairs these one in brown and one in green and this this is what I'll use for my layering on my bottom half once I get to beyond the comfort of this verse attack mid I'll put these on underneath now if I get down to temperatures that are below you know we're close to hovering around the zero degree mark then I'll go to this wicking layer and on top of that I'll put on a nine ounce pant that's also made by rail rider called

the Yukon work pant and the Yukon work pant is a fleece lined pant it has a fleece lining inside of it it's a 9-ounce nylon material and all why are those in extreme cold weather or if I don't want to wear you can mix and match and stuff real easy if I don't want to wear the wicking layer necessarily like today I'm wearing a pair of these same nine ounce pants with the fleece inside of them it's about 35 degrees out maybe 40 right now and I don't have this wicking layer underneath all I have on is a pair of short Under Armour which we'll go over in a minute and I'll wear these over top of that it's very comfortable they have a lot of padding in if you're going to be on your knees a lot things like that like I am today they have well they're well padded with that fleece lining inside that's what I like about it so those are the three pants that I generally wear now the other pair of pants that I have that I wear I don't even I didn't bring them out here for example today because they're made out of a more blue jean type canvas material in their car hearts and they are just a real heavy hunting pain if I'm going to go out and I'm going to hunt in heavy briars and thorns and things like that I'll wear those because they're real good at repelling that stuff where these aren't real good at repelling heavy thorns and things and I'll usually wear a wicking layer underneath those because cotton is a horrible thing to wear in the winter

but they're a cotton type material a blue jean type material and I will wear those on a short hunt or a short scout if I know I'm going back somewhere where I've got something like this to put on that's going to be good warm when I need it so all of these are the pants that I generally wear now like I said generally what I wear is I'll just wear a short pair of Under Armour wicking layer underneath my pants summer winter or fall unless I went to that base layer and they're just a regular pair of polypropylene stretch type material shorts that I wear underneath of my clothes of the wicking material and I'll wear those in the joy of the time until it gets good and cold I have to put these on that's what I'm wearing right now with the 9 ounce versatile or the 9 ounce set you can't pay it from rail riding so that covers us for everything from our feet up to our belt line and now we'll talk about garments of wear for upper body okay so now let's talk about our upper body generally what I'll do for a base layer my upper body is I'll just wear some type of Under Armour t-shirt like this tan one that I've got on or there's dark brown and I've got green and a couple other colors in this as well but that gives me a good comfortable base layer that's a good wicking layer I wear these a lot of times even in the summertime but in the winter time or in the fall I'll wear one of these the majority of time until it gets good and cold and I have to put on something of the long sleeve nature like this that's a little it's got some insulation in it and it's made for cold weather okay and it is polypro as well so it gives you that wicking property that you need for your upper body but it's a little bit heavier duty than this now you can mix and mix and match this stuff just like you do everything else that you wear and when all generally do like today it's hovering around 40 so I've just got this other insulated hondo jacket here that we talked about yesterday that's made by Under own and I'll put that on over the top and actually with these two layers I'm pretty warm so I've got my base layer I've got my insulation layer now the other insulation layer that I carry with me that I don't have out here today it's just a Columbia outerwear and it's a great color I'm sure you've seen in some other videos and it's about twice as heavy as this one is so when it gets extremely cold that would be my insulation layer and then you have an outer layer and that depends like I said a lot on the environment you're going to be in and I wear a lot of different outer layers I shouldn't say I wear three or four different outer layers one of the outer layers that I wear quite a bit is this real heavy Bear Creek fleece jacket and it's a real heavy weight fleece and I'll put that on over the top of this hondo and I'll be good with this you know with even without the long-sleeve Under Armour I'll be good and warm with this down to temperatures you know hovering way below or right out freezing I was going to say way below 35 so right about freezing I'll be fine with this and just a pair of gloves and a hand I'm good to go now if I depending on what I want to wear that day you know I've got wolf hunting shirts that I wear as well and I would take this off and put the wolf hunting shirt on over the top of a bait of an insulation layer and this is an example of a hunting shirt that you've seen me wear lately this is a 100% wool plaid hunting shirt that was sewn and custom-made for me I've got several of these we've talked about these a lot of videos we're going to have these on our website pretty soon I've showed you how to make these now a lot of people ask me why didn't put a hood on the 1i may we can see this doesn't have a hood on it either there's a reason for that and that reason is that I carry a dark-brown hood that I had made for the dark brown shirt that's one made out of one percent wool and what it does is you put it on first and it wraps around in the front just like this and has a flap and then you just put your wool shirt on over the top of that and you have a hood so the hoods that are changeable a lot of times I find when I'm in the woods out of hood will get in my way if I'm carrying backpacks taking them on and off things like that a hood gets in my way because you always have to put it back up on your head to put your backpack on or if you forget to put it up on your head when you put your backpack on then you got to pull it off learn with your backpack and hoods can become a pain in the butt unless it's a really extremely cold you have to have it so I carry this hood with me that's interchangeable and I can wear this with any hunting shirt that I have whether it's my green one my dark brown one my plaid one it doesn't matter I can use this hood just like any other hat and put it inside my hunting shirt that's why I don't sew hoods on my hunting shirts I didn't sew one on the green one that we did in the video the other day so the fleece or the wool would be two different outer wears that I would employ after my installation layer the other thing that I wear sometimes is the gore-tex jacket did you see me wear with the military camouflage woodland pattern on and in extreme cold wet environments with snow I shouldn't say what extreme cold with snow you don't really want something that is waterproof because all the snows all the water is going to be frozen anyway and waterproof doesn't equal breathability and you need breathability in your clothes so gore-tex is not a good outerwear for extreme cold weather but gore-tex is great outerwear in Eastern woodlands when you have sleet and just light snow and rain and things like that even in

wintertime gore-tex makes a good outer layer a lot of times I'll wear that if I'm going to go hunting or something and it's going to be you know just a nasty old day outside and I think it might rain I'll wear the gore-tex I wore the other day in a video so those are the types of outerwear that I put on over my insulation layer and that pretty much discusses the clothing now as far as you know hats go I'm not a big I'm not a big hat guy I wear them but normally all this wear the Pathfinder watch cap in cold weather and if it gets much colder than that then I put on an Under Armour balaclava underneath of this just to keep my head just that much warmer and i've got--let polypro balaclava u.s. army style that i wear an extreme extreme cold weather I hope you guys enjoyed this short video today on types of clothing that I wear and how i layer my clothing for the woods I didn't want to shoot a video is going to be a half an hour long just showing my wardrobe but that's about the best fact to figure out how to do this for you guys and I had quite a few requests for it so I appreciate all your views I appreciate your support and my name is Dave Canterbury with Pathfinder school I thank you very much and we're back another video very soon