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What should I wear underneath my jacket?

You may not think about it much, but what you choose for your inner layer may make the difference between a good and bad time on a tour.

Things like cotton underwear or long T-shirts have a tendency to collect sweat and become quite wet, which in the snow makes you very cold. To prevent this, you should always where chemical fiber wool garments for your inner layer.

Chemical fiber has superior quick drying properties, and is able to keep your skin relatively dry while you are snowshoeing.

Wool doesn’t have the quick drying properties that chemical fiber does, but even if it does get wet it will stay warm and keep you from getting frostbite. For people especially sensitive to the cold, wool is probably better than chemical fiber.



A good snowshoe layering scheme would be an inner consisting of chemical fiber or wool, covered by a layer of fleece, and on the very outside a ski jacket. Look at the weather forecast the day before you go on a tour, and taking the length of your tour (Full or Half-Hay) into account, adjust according to what you think would be comfortable.

Also, depending on the person, what you consider as hot and cold may be different. This means that there is no rule on determining the right amount of layering. Rather than trying to wear one large and heavy coat, it is better to wear many thin layers that can be shed or adjusted depending on the conditions of the day and how you feel.



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