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The head is the place where we lose most of our body heat from when it's cold and the bit that we want to protect from too much sun when it's hot.
What's your favorite bushcraft headwear?
Mine is a GoreTex lined woolly hat when it's cold/wet (a really nice bit of kit) and a T3 Tilley in summer (or a Mountain Hardware sun hat).
What's your favorite bushcraft hat?
ChrisKavanaugh
10-03-2004, 03:53
A wool Balaclava for the cold and my ancient cowboy hat for the sun.
CM Burns
10-03-2004, 09:05
Winter - a Lowe Mountain cap - waterproof, breathable, fairly inconspicuous earflaps (!),warm, wired peak. Perfect.
Summer - can't remember what make it is (the wife bought it for me in the USA) - a huge peak, and has a protective neck flap that covers the sides/ears as well as back of neck. This flap can be tucked inside the cap when not needed so it (almost) looks like a normal baseball cap. This cap was absolutely essential last summer in the burning heat - on the record breaking days i was fishing down on the Sussex coast and it was far safer and cleaner to cover up from the sun rather than slap on the factor 30! I can also pretend that i'm in the Foreign Legion when wearing it.... :wink:
MartiniDave
10-03-2004, 09:24
A wool thinsulate hat for winter.
A Rogue Drovers hat for summer, or my very faded and stained Land Rover baseball cap.
With my low drag factor hair style, I tend to need a hat! :-D
Dave
i've got wide variety of hats - some good and plenty silly.
I keep coming back to 4 or so:
Winter - an old beaver fur loddy (is taht the spelling) that my father aquired years ago that I subsequently liberated. It does get a bit hot though.
Summer - a crushable wool felt brimmed job or a floppy "Fishbone" bush hat, it a surfy type Boonie thing but doesn't look at all military.
An most of the year a fleece hat. Even worn this in the Eden project where it shocked SWMBO that while everyone else was wilting I had nice cool head under said hat.
Plus long hair which keeps the heat in if tied back or catches any cooling breeze when loose.
Winter - a Lowe Mountain cap - waterproof, breathable, fairly inconspicuous earflaps (!),warm, wired peak. Perfect.
Oh yeah ... I got one of those too ... somewhere!
Summer - can't remember what make it is (the wife bought it for me in the USA) - a huge peak, and has a protective neck flap that covers the sides/ears as well as back of neck.
Sounds juist like my Mountain Hardware cap ... nice bit of kit!
jamesdevine
10-03-2004, 10:31
Winter: Fleece Skull cap the inlaws bought home from a trip in France last year. I had it on all winter and the old noggin was toasty.
Summer: Military style bush hat I bought for £2. rolls up to nothing and is pretty breathable I think it's cotton but I'm sure.
An of course my Old BP hat (not sure of the real name anyone). It was give to me by an old Belgium scout master I worked with on his retirement. Great hat for camp and water proof.
James
Winter..Lowe Mountain Cap
http://www.fieldandtrek.com/ft1/images/products/10040_m.jpg
Summer Barmah suede squashy....
http://www.hitzelnet.de/terra-australia/Bekl/1120_gr.jpg
Or a Zandanna (half bandanna, half hat)
http://www.motofe.de/Klamotten/Zandanna/Z6.jpg
:-D
I tend to use the army issue headover a lot - great piece of kit, hat, scarf and balaclava all in one. Also, very warm in the cold weather.
Winter..Lowe Mountain Cap
http://www.fieldandtrek.com/ft1/images/products/10040_m.jpg
Yep, that the one I have too! Nice cap!
Buckshot
10-03-2004, 13:35
I tend to wear the same hat all year round, it's made by Akuba (sp), the model is Snowy River.
It's made out of compressed rabbit fur I think so it's totally waterproof, it has a brim all the way round. I've customised mine and put ear flaps that pull down in bad weather and tuck right up out of the way in good.
It's posh enough to wear on shoot days and practical enough to wear the rest of the time as well
I like it.
Cheers
Mark
Winter - Fjallraven Forest Hat - this has rabbit ear muffs - looks a bit like
a laplander but superb and warm, or if not so cold - Lowe Alpine as as before. Also an old tweed cap.
Summer: Tilley hat - green
All year wollen skull cap made by a local crofter from hebridean sheep wool and dog hair. yep I'm folically challenged too.
Jeremyh
I use a hat almost identical to MadDaves Summer Barmah suede squashy. In the winter a snook of some kind, or a buff.
larry the spark
30-03-2004, 12:25
Just use a woolly hat and a baseball cap presently. Ordered one of these yesterday and look forward to giving it a field test in inclement weather. Love the look of it.
www.barbour.co.uk/product/profile.asp?productid=88&activ ityid=0&departmentid=0&categor yid=0&womens=
Sorry 'bout the long link.
Think it'll be waterproof or just repellant? Hopefully the cord lining to the earflaps will provide some insulation.
A woolen beanie type hat for the winter.
In the summer i rarely feel the need for sun protection. But in the desert i just take a small piece of white cotton and wrap it round, it seems to be the most effective, as it doesnt trap as much heat as a hat.
And of course, sun cream, the worst feeling i ever had was in the wolfberg cracks, SA, with heat stroke.
Cheers,
Jake
the naughty boy
30-03-2004, 14:03
i got a wee berghaus black fleece beanie hat ,wear it everywhere. while fishing at night in stormy weather it still kept my noggin warm even though it was soaked.dried out real quick too.
usually worn with a fleece snood so you can only see my eyes.
Naughty boy....whats with your signiture? do people get offended by you?
:lol: