Comments on: Layering for Cold Weather Comfort

By: Tell That Woman

Tell That Woman — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:07:15 +0000

Keep camping. Tell the wife to sit her ass at home and make you some dinner or clean or something. She shouldn’t tell you what to do, because she doesn’t like it.

By: Bill Koupal

Bill Koupal — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:53:52 +0000

Roy,

It appears that any judgement about the insulating properties of various materials and the competing products made from them will be purely subjective. That leaves consumers with nothing but the marketer’s message.

Thank you for taking the time to respond.

By: Roy Scribner

Roy Scribner — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:15:14 +0000

Bill – I doubt that there is a standard measure of insulation that has been adopted by the industry (and the manufacturers certainly don’t publish it, if there is). One thing that Gore pointed out, with respect to layering, is that each layer is an inhibitor to breathing, because the vapor has to travel across the air-gap between the layers.

By: Bill Koupal

Bill Koupal — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:32:32 +0000

I’ve continued to look into this and there doesn’t seem to be an objective measure of the heat-trapping, insulating capability of different materials. You can find the weight per ounce, but not what that ounce will do. How does an ounce of fleece compare with an ounce of thinsulate. Is all fleece the same? Surely these are measurable factors.

By: Roy Scribner

Roy Scribner — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:35:40 +0000

Interesting, Bill – I believe you are on the right track, looking at a single base layer. I’m actually at Gore today, so I’ll see what kind of ideas they have.