It’s day 13 of my challenge not to do laundry in washing machines and dryers and just hand wash for a month. So far it’s going great. $20 saved which I’ll use for tacos once I finish this post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let’s talk winter gear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What’s the least you can wear and still stay comfortably warm? I recently went to Tahoe for work, and had this chart to work off of. The idea behind Clo values<\/a> is that a Clo value of 1 will keep you comfortable at 70 degrees Fahrenheit without having to move. The colder it gets, the higher the clo value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The chart below is the recommended clo values for keeping warm and comfy while not moving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I was on the slopes and perfectly comfortable thanks mostly to the North Face Thermoball Full Zip Jacket<\/a> which has a clo rating of 2.08. This jacket packs down to a small 7″ x 4″ rectangle that you can attach to a carabiner on your backpack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also of note is the ExOfficio Trail Crest Flannel<\/a> that has hollow threads for a high warmth to material ratio, and the ExOfficio Kahve Hoody<\/a>. Both dry over night in 8 hours after washing and both are warm enough to be the only layers you’d need while walking around when it’s around 40 degrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you look at the chart below, you’ll see that what’s minimalist is skipping ski pants in favor of a lighter rain pant, and skipping the outer shell. Instead of looking like a stay puff marsh mellow on the slopes, you look lean and mean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I was very warm in below freezing weather thanks to the gear below.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n It’s day 13 of my challenge not to do laundry in washing machines and dryers and just hand wash for a month. So far it’s going great. $20 saved which I’ll use for tacos once I finish this post. Let’s talk winter gear. What’s the least you can wear and still stay comfortably warm? I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,377],"tags":[378,379,381,404],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-lifehacks","tag-exofficio","tag-lifehacks","tag-winter","tag-wintergear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}clo\tdegrees F\tdegrees C\n1\t70\t\t21\n1.3\t66\t\t19\n1.6\t62\t\t17\n2\t59\t\t15\n2.3\t55\t\t13\n2.6\t52\t\t11\n3.2\t45\t\t 7\n3.8\t27\t\t-3\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Item\t\t\t\tClo Value\npatagonia long johns\t\t0.35\nexofficio nomad pants\t\t0.2\nLL Bean rain pants\t\t0.28\nbriefs\t\t\t\t0.04\nexofficio flannel\t\t0.3\nexofficio kahve hoody\t\t0.37\nthermoball inner jacket\t\t2.08\noutershell\t\nboots\t\t\t\t0.05\nsocks\t\t\t\t0.1\ngloves\t\t\t\t0.1\nscarf\t\t\t\t0.1\nhat\t\t\t\t0.1\nTOTAL CLO\t\t\t4.07\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"