Optimized Ultralight Clothing System

The ultralight clothing system I use on my hiking / backpacking trips!

FOR A MORE IN-DEPTH BREAKDOWN:

PIECES FEATURED IN VIDEO:

✅ SHIRT (myog)

✅ PANTS

✅ FLEECE (myog)

✅ SHELL JACKET (myog)

✅ SHELL PANTS (myog)
- WPB Dyneema Composite Fabric

✅ PUFFY (myog)

✅ SUN GLOVES

✅ LINER GLOVES
- Fleece (purchase cheap locally)

✅ SHELL GLOVES

✅ HAT

✅ SOCKS

✅ TRAIL RUNNERS

✅ BOOTS

CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Intro
0:24 - Shirt
1:16 - Pants
1:36 - Fleece
2:44 - Shell Jacket
3:53 - Shell Pants
4:38 - Puffy
6:29 - Glove System
7:34 - Hat
7:50 - Socks, Sneaks, Boots

MUSIC:

[bernardkauffman]

This dude adventures, drops knowledge bombs, and goes back out into the wild. Proud Subscriber here!

[liv-oivg]

This is pretty much the same system I've ended up with, but only after months of research and consideration. Really great advice, especially because it doesn't point at particular products but shows how to evaluate them.
You may want to try out Shakedry for the shell jacket, it does not wet out. Not super durable though.

[billb]

As you say, WPB jackets are amazing when they work.
I've been using Outdry Extreme recently and have been pretty happy with it. It never wets out, so it breathes in the rain. That's kind of cool.
My Outdry jacket also fits better (looser) and is more durable than ShakeDry.
Outstanding vid, even when re-watching a year later. Thanks.

[Sammmmmmmmmmmm.]

Hey this is so comprehensive. Great work Josh!

[mattoutdoorua]

You got a unique style of the video. I like it

[SO]

This video is very useful. It's very easy to understand with comprehensive analysis. Thanks.

[linusgoblin]

Very good video and article i l dig your way of designing the cloth presentation, its elegant and very helpful, thanks. As i understand that you covered all your kit, i assume you don't wear boxers?

[dorongoldfarb]

absolutely amazing video, straight to the point, love your work.
keep it up!

[_kardus]

Do you wear your Pertex Quantum Air shirt against skin or do you use a baselayer (if so which one?)?

[flightwithtools]

Super sick. I do historical costuming and when wearing historical clothing, I can see how all these considerations come up in what people were wearing.

Much like in backpacking - historical people had limited clothing; textiles were difficult and time consuming to produce so having very few sets of clothes (which were mended and passed down sometimes for 100+ years) was standard. I've worn 12th century northern European and seen first-had how I can change the ways I am wearing certain items or layer staple pieces to account for the weather, etc.

Making my own clothing is gonna be an important part of preparing for trips because I have the skills, it's fun and I can make it look how I want (both functionally and aesthetically) and this video and yr MYOG videos are gonna be really good, essentially academic reference. Are you trained in clothing design/construction/textiles or did you strictly do your own learning/research?

[brettzehner]

hey mate. for the rain jacket and puffer did you make those yourself?

[tomnoyb]

1) Puffy's are extraneous, dead weight, used only in camp. Most unpack their down quilt, lay it on the ground and put on their down puffy to relax before bed - never thinking they could simply wrap themselves in that quilt. Not to mention, the shirt/fleece/shell combo they weren't wearing while hiking is more than warm enough for most situations by itself. 2) Glove-system needs to breathe. Showa's don't breathe. Get EE-Visp gloves, MLD or Zpacks wpb shells instead. 3) MYoG'd poncho out of wpb-material, instead of rain-jacket/pants combo. Commercial ponchos refuse to use expensive wpb-materials, but ponchos are merely plastic-bags without them.

Poncho covers shorts in one-layer (vs the unwieldy break at one's waist for pants/skirts), breathes incredibly well and is secured optionally to prevent billowing. A wpb-poncho is light-years better than a jacket or a jacket/pant combo.