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<blockquote data-quote="Mike 338" data-source="post: 1367303" data-attributes="member: 41338"><p>My advice... buy surplus military wool. Here's the problem with wool. It freezes like a pine board overnight when wet. Pretty much just like everything else but now you have a piece of thick, heavy frozen clothing. It'll get better as you work it in during the day but frozen clothes are frozen clothes. Try to keep your wool from getting soaked and then freezing by wearing gaiters and having something water repellent on over them when it's wet and then later, freezing. Being wet from sweat isn't nearly as bad as being wet from trudging through wet snow and brush all day. </p><p></p><p>As far as Filson products, the wool seems good but I had a very expensive Tin Coat which was an oil canvas. It got soaked and froze so fast it wasn't even funny. My opinion is that you shouldn't sell garbage to people who need to stay alive. Filson wool is probably good but it's expensive and IMO, you can do just as well with surplus gear if you take care not to soak it and sweat it out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mike 338, post: 1367303, member: 41338"] My advice... buy surplus military wool. Here's the problem with wool. It freezes like a pine board overnight when wet. Pretty much just like everything else but now you have a piece of thick, heavy frozen clothing. It'll get better as you work it in during the day but frozen clothes are frozen clothes. Try to keep your wool from getting soaked and then freezing by wearing gaiters and having something water repellent on over them when it's wet and then later, freezing. Being wet from sweat isn't nearly as bad as being wet from trudging through wet snow and brush all day. As far as Filson products, the wool seems good but I had a very expensive Tin Coat which was an oil canvas. It got soaked and froze so fast it wasn't even funny. My opinion is that you shouldn't sell garbage to people who need to stay alive. Filson wool is probably good but it's expensive and IMO, you can do just as well with surplus gear if you take care not to soak it and sweat it out. [/QUOTE]
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