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Looks interesting. Thanks.Cuban fiber poncho. Www.zpacks.com joe makes great products. Also fits over pack. Great product. 4 oz. I believe. BC jo.
My sister walked the camino with the rain kilt. It might have been fine in summer but not the warmest choice in Sept/Oct. She's walking the length of New Zealand starting this Sept and has replaced the kilt with rain pants. Rain pants have the added advantage of acting as an extra layer on dry days if the wind gets cold. I found the zpack ones to be comfortable to wear.Looks interesting. Thanks.
I also took a look at the rain kilt. It would be very easy to make one. Not sure if one could walk in a strong wind though.
Our Camino on the Francis is close, just 5 weeks. We start 9/9 in St Jean. Walking slow and stopping in several places to enjoy the history, churches etc. We will probably not get to Santiago until the end of Oct. I'm sure it will rain some of the days. What have you found works best for keeping yourself and your pack dry? I need to keep the weight down. I am ok with warm and wet, but not cold and wet.
The lightest weight rain jacket/pants combo available in the US right now (I realize I'm going out on a limb!) is the Helium II jacket and Helium pants, from OR. REI et al carry them. The Ferrino Trekker sleeved poncho/raincoat (available from Amazon) is another favorite on this forum, less expensive but but heavier. September will be quite warm - even hot in the early weeks. Late October near Santiago will definitely be cool.
Funny!!! Not at the time probably, but now a fun memory.like the old-style one-piece pajamas!
I took a large plastic garbage bag to line my backpack with - it kept everything dry in the spring rain in Galicia, It was light enough, and I was away long enough, that I took a spare one with me just in case my cheap garbage bag got a hole in it - it never happened.
I am ok with warm and wet
What SabineP wrote is perfect advice. But I go with a poncho. The newspaper advice is huge. Pick up papers in bars along the way. As I wrote in another post I stuff my sneakers with newspaper as soon as I arrive change them after about an hour and then finally I will change them again before I go to sleep with fresh newspaper. My shoes are always dry in the morning. I have had pouring rain and 30 mile an hour winds on the Maseta and 90°, not a cloud in the sky on the Maseta at the same time of year in different Caminos. I walked in the Galicia. One year I had three days of snow with accumulations of about three or 4 inches in October and three or four days of snow and rain on the same Camino.with the other time it being sunny and blue sky's and 50s to 70's every day.Our Camino on the Francis is close, just 5 weeks.
We start 9/9 in St Jean. Walking slow and stopping in several places to enjoy the history, churches etc. We will probably not get to Santiago until the end of Oct. I'm sure it will rain some of the days. What have you found works best for keeping yourself and your pack dry?
I need to keep the weight down. I am ok with warm and wet, but not cold and wet.
Altus raincoat. Available along the camino. Light weight and covers the pack. I highly recommend it. You can take your arms out and hang it over your pack like a cape in intermittent rain.Our Camino on the Francis is close, just 5 weeks.
We start 9/9 in St Jean. Walking slow and stopping in several places to enjoy the history, churches etc. We will probably not get to Santiago until the end of Oct. I'm sure it will rain some of the days. What have you found works best for keeping yourself and your pack dry?
I need to keep the weight down. I am ok with warm and wet, but not cold and wet.
Using a visor (or baseball cap) under your hood works wonders.the problem has been trying to see through wet glasses.
All three together is a recipe for disaster.A little wet? a little cold? Exhausted?
All three together is a recipe for disaster.
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