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Winter Trail Running Gear Kit for Cold Temps · Run Mountain Peaks

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OK, welcome back to another episode of Run Mountain Peaks.
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Today I am going to be going through my full winter trail
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running, mountain running hiking gear kit.
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It's been super cold like every week in the last month in New
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England. And yeah, I'm going to talk
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about everything that I use to stay warm, how to keep my hands
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warm, feet warm, face warm. Talk about my pack, talk about
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all the gear that I use and I don't just want to do here's
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what I use. I want to kind of talk about in
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detail each item, how I use about it, tips and tricks, all
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that kind of stuff. So this is going to be a full
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deep dive kind of gear talk. And I, I have like most of the
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gear that I, I pretty much just went and grabbed everything, all
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of my running gear. So I have most of the stuff.
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So we'll go through it. I don't know, I don't think this
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will take super long, but we'll go through each thing.
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I think it'll be good to talk about, especially now it's just
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been so cold. So we'll do that.
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And just a, a disclaimer, this is not a winter safety hiking
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gear list. I'm going to link New
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Hampshire's hike safe information, the 10 essentials,
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winter gear, all that stuff, just so everyone has it and is
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aware. Get your hike safeguard, all
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that jazz. But this is less of a safety
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talk and more of the stuff that I that I take with me.
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Had to throw that out there. Nobody follow what I do and then
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get get stranded out there or something because the winter and
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the whites, any, any of these northeast high peaks, it is it,
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it gets cold and it's, it's legit.
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So you got to be prepared. So that's what we're going to do
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today. A couple other things.
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There is a new mount Monadnock winter race coming up next
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weekend, the Heartbreaker mountain race.
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It is going to be February 14th, 2026 and it's up down on the
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white dot, which is I think it's awesome.
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I mean, the Monadnock white dot is notorious.
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It's iconic. Everyone knows there's a bunch
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of Monadnock crushers that always send that up and down.
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And I didn't look at it to see if there's an entrance list.
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I don't know who's going to be in it, but that's going to be a
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fun race to follow. And I'm sure there will be some
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of the Monadnock boys going down there, so it'll be fun to
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follow. And then this weekend it already
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happened, so we're at the end of it.
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My prediction will last. Skier standing still be going
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Sunday morning at 6:00. Yes, I think it is going to be
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gone 'cause there's some sluggers in that race, but holy
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smokes, it's going to be freezing.
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And it's going to be the second night.
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So it's starting on the Friday. Friday night it's going to be
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snowy, but not that bad. And then Saturday night into
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Sunday morning is going to be -10 like a real feel.
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It's going to be freezing. So people are going to be 48
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hours in and getting hit with that cold.
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So we'll see. We'll see how it goes.
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I think with the cold that I do, it's hard to envision the course
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record going down, but we'll see.
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I'm going to predict, yes, 6:00 AM.
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They're going to still be going. OK, so that's this weekend.
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And then, oh, at the end, I'm going to do some tongue
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twisters. They're just a couple tongue
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twisters that a couple of us were laughing about.
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So we'll do those at the end and that's what we got today.
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OK, before we get into the gear talk today, I want to do a 62nd
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training tip for you. And the tip for this week is
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going to be around deload weeks or down weeks.
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I think every three to four, maybe 5 weeks of training, you
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should be taking a deload week. A deload week is basically a
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week where you just train a lot less than you have been
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training. So I usually reduce volume like
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30 to 50%. So basically cut most of your
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runs like 2/3 of what you usually do.
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And then don't go out for any super long runs and don't do any
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hard workouts. And what this does this week,
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this recovery period, like rest week, it just allows your body
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to adapt to a new training load you've been doing.
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So usually when I do a training block, I will increase my volume
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like on a three or four week cycle.
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So for three to four straight weeks, I'm kind of building,
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building, building, building. And I'm and then that last week
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I'm really pushing myself and I basically push myself and then
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take AD load week to allow your body to adapt to the training.
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And then the next week you come back fresher and you don't
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really lose that much fitness because you're still training
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and then you kind of build from there.
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And I think a lot of people don't do this.
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I think the Strava charts can kind of take hold.
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And no, I don't want to have a super down week, but I think
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they're really important. They're good for recovery,
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they're going to help you adapt, and it's just a good cushion to
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make sure you're not overtraining and kind of
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spiraling into something where you have to take longer than a
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week off from training. So if you haven't been doing DLO
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weeks, try them out. And if you have any questions,
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send me an e-mail, andrew@runmountainpeaks.com.
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And I just put out a free endurance training guide on my
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website. You can go in there, download it
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for free, and it basically walks through all the top things that
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I think about in my training to basically just get faster and
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make sure you're staying healthy.
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So if you're interested in that, go check it out.
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It's out of run mountainpeaks.com.
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It'll be in the description. OK, today we're going to get
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into the gear. So I think right now, do I need
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this? I may, I may even need this.
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No, I don't need it. I can't forget to do the tongue
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twisters though. All right, so I'm going to show
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you what I have going on right now.
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So this is going to be a quick mobile podcast.
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Hey, here we go. OK, so I basically separated my
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gear. Well, the mic got really, really
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close there. So I basically separated my
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gear. This cooler has basically
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everything that I keep on my drying rack.
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If you are a runner, you probably have a drying rack,
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especially in the winter for all of your stuff.
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So this is like all the things that I keep out in my drying
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rack that I will take on most of my runs.
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So we'll start with that stuff and then I have some pack stuff
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and clothing in the big bin, which we'll go through.
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I think that's very important layering in the packs.
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And then this last little bit over here is pretty much just
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all of my extra stuff, like some safety, some stuff.
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And, and so we'll go through what I have in there.
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It's stuff that I don't use too, too much, but I do have and I
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keep, and then I have my my running my footwear.
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So we'll do that. And I've kind of talked about
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the footwear before, but I haven't, I haven't done a
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visual. So if you're watching this,
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yeah, hopefully, I mean, the last minute, if you've been
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watching this, you're probably like, all right, this makes
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sense. But if you're listening, you're
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like, all right, this guy's kind of just so hold on.
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I'm resetting everything up here, people.
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Do I have to cut this? Nah.
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Keep it in. Keep it in.
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Appreciate you guys. Stick it with me.
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OK. OK, Oh man, my hands are going
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to get cold today too, so we're going to all right.
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So we're going to start out with what I use every day, like take
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on all of my runs. And I'm actually wearing a maybe
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a couple of the things, but I think I think we should be good
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here. So I'm just going to start
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flying through this stuff. A ball cap.
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I pretty much always wear a ball cap running.
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I think a lot of the times if it's not super cold, the kind of
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winter hat is too much for me so I'll just use a ball cap and
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then I use it with a Gator. I think the ball cap Gator combo
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is perfect. The Gator, I keep it around my
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neck and then you can basically bump it up around your face,
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around your nose if it's really, really cold and you can put it
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up over your ears. You can put it over your ears,
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over your hat, but not around your face.
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It's super versatile. It's super light and it just
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gives you like enough basically, I don't know, like covering your
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face and your neck area from the cold.
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And I find with the cap, it is super effective.
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If I don't have the cap, I feel like my head gets a little bit
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too cold sometimes. So it's like a little it's, you
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know, it doesn't do too, too much for insulating, but it does
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just enough. So that's like I basically run
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with that every day. So that's why he's there.
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And then, yeah, if it is really cold, I will wear a winter hat.
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But I will say like temperatures when I have to wear a winter
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hat, it's got to be single digits or colder.
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And a lot of the time, like, I don't know, unless it's like -10
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plus in the windshield, I don't even wear a winter hat.
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It's just not my not my style. My head gets maybe too hot and
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it's just something, it's kind of like bulkier.
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I don't know. So yeah, that is pretty much,
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that's pretty much what I use for the head, neck, another cap,
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well worn. I always get comments about
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this. Oh, shout out John and Amy.
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They got me this new hat because John John is always saying like,
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oh dude, you got to get a new hat.
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But I like that hat. So that's what I have going
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around for the head and neck. This is another Gator for the
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neck. I will say I'm trying to think I
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probably will use the winter hat before I use this, but once I
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grab the winter hat, I'm definitely having this in my
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truck when I go to a a trailhead.
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It's just more of an insulated neck gaiter on those really cold
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days. But if it's not super, super
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cold, it's too much for me. And I think that that single
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like this, this, this neck Gator is like it's just like a thin
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fabric and that's just enough for me.
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So that's what I'll rare around the neck and head.
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And then how to keep my hands warm.
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I think a lot of people, how should I say this?
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I think keeping your hands warm is probably the number one thing
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that gets cold first. It's like the first thing that's
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going to get really cold. And so I have kind of like a
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layering system that I use for my hands.
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And so yeah, how do I, how do I go through the hand, the hand
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layering system, because everyone talks about you got to
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wear layers in the winter. You got to do it right.
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But I, I don't think a lot of people think about layering your
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glove options because a lot of times you have too warm of a
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glove. It's like you wear it, but then
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it gets too hot too quick. You got to take it off and then
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to cool down and then your hands are kind of exposed to the air,
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all that stuff. So what I do is, again, this is
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unless it's single digits, real, real temperature, I wear just a
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super thin pair of running gloves.
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These are mismatched. I think I lost a right and a
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left to each of them, which is awesome.
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It's better than having two rights.
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So I match them up. But it's a super thin glove pair
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and they're not very, very warm. But when I think about hand
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stuff on the way up a mountain, you're going to be working
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harder a lot, you know, a lot, a good amount harder than going
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down. So your body is just going to be
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warmer going up and then you got to kind of go down.
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So a lot of times you sweat. And so with the little gloves,
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when I'm going up, I'm usually warm enough to keep my hands
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warm with this, with a thin pair of gloves and you're working
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hard enough that they don't get super cold.
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And then once I get to the top, I take those off because they're
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at lab that point sweaty, kind of wet and I put on a thicker
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pair of gloves. These aren't mittens.
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They still have the the fingers on them, but they're very
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insulated. And so like right before I get
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to the summit, I'll take the the small gloves off and I'll put
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these ones on. And these thin gloves even have
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a layering system. So like level 1 is just wearing
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them regular if it's a little bit too cold, but I don't want
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to put the bigger gloves on. Level 2 is like I take the
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fingers outgoing up and I put it my hand in a fist and not like
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usually keeps them warm enough. And then I guess Level 3 is
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like, you could always put a hand warmer in for, for any of
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this stuff, But that's how we use those.
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And another trick to keep your hands warm in the winter is any
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time like when you're sweating, you're going to get wet.
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You want to avoid getting wet as much as you can.
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Like that's like the whole thing with winter.
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You want to try to stay dry because that's going to keep you
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a lot warmer with your hands. One thing that I think really
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helps keep, keep them dry is if you're grabbing trees or falling
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or slipping or whatever, and your hands get snow on them.
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As soon as you get snow on your gloves, brush them off.
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Like hit them pretty hard against your legs.
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I always do that both hands. If they get snow on them, I, I
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brush them off because you want to brush off the snow before the
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heat of your hands melts it and, and get your gloves wet.
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So that's one tip. Start with light gloves and then
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wipe off the snow as soon as you can and at the top put on a pair
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of warmer gloves. Another tip, obviously you know
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2026 will use modern technology hand warmers.
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Hand warmers work great. I got some right here.
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Bring them with me all the time in the winter.
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I'll always have an extra pair in my pack when I go with me.
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And one other thing about the hand warmers, if it's a cold
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day, I always start them at the beginning of the run, put one in
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each pocket. And because if your hands get
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really, really cold, you don't want to have to go through
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opening the pack, shaking them up, getting them warm.
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You just want them already warm. And when you have them in your
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pockets next to your legs, they're going to stay a lot
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warmer and like, ready if you need them.
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Because yeah, if you get to a point where you meet your hands
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are freezing, your glove fell off or whatever, something
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happened, you don't want to have to wait for them to warm up.
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Like, you know, minutes are crucial.
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And then the So that's another tip.
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And then lastly, if it's really, really cold and I went through
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two pairs of gloves, like if they both got soaked, I have
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mittens that I'll bring too. I don't bring these on a lot of
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runs, but I do bring them on some of the runs just like a
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good pair of like insulated warm mittens.
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A lot of the times if I roam with these, it's just it's just
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too they're too warm. But these are like the last
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layer. So if you, if you hit it right,
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I, I mean most of the runs like it depends on the length and the
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cold, the temperatures and stuff.
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But if you kind of hit your hand, keeping your hands warm in
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the correct way, you use the leg gloves and they're starting to
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maybe get a tiny bit cold. You get to the top, you switch
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to a new pair and then weigh down, you switch your last pair
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of your long day or whatever and your hands are just warm the
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whole day. It makes it so much better.
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So that's the hand stuff. What else do we got in here for?
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So talking about hand warmers, I have toe warmers actually just
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put out a a YouTube video. Just quickly. 1 tip I use with
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the toe warmers is to keep your phone charged longer.
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Just take one of the toe warmers off if you have a phone case and
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stick it like a sticky toe warmer and stick it on the back
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of your phone and it just keeps your battery heated up and it
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and it lasts way longer. Like if I stick one of those to
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my phone, I've never had problems with my phone dying.
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I don't really rely on my phone for like navigation or texting,
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you know, or I don't plan to. So it's never like, you know,
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I'm never looking at my phone much anyway, usually ever unless
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I'm trying to take a picture. But it's good to have in case
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you need to use your phone and you need to be charged.
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So that's why I have there. Yeah.
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Now the hand warmers or an extra pair of hand warmers there.
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All right, now we're going to get into some of the I guess we
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have one more extra light layer that I bring.
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So this is, I'm not going to open it up, but it's basically
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like a, it's like a Houdini. I shouldn't it's I think it's
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outdoor research maybe, but it's just a tiny lightweight water
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resistant. This is not a shell.
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This is not like an outer shell waterproof.
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It's water resistant and it's just a tiny light.
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Like this is 3 oz layer that I use on almost on every one of my
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winter runs. I think that is like the perfect
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layer to have in a, in an easy access pocket because like I
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said, if you're working up the mountain, I usually just start
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out and I have the layers here, but something light.
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And then once you get to the top, that one thin layer is
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usually all that I need for the rest of the day.
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I throw that on. A lot of the times I'll just
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throw it over my, my vest that I'm wearing.
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So I don't even have to take anything off.
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I always have it in a pocket I can access and I just throw it
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over. And you can actually see because
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when when your body's warm and it's cold outside and there's
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like a barrier, the moisture will accumulate.
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But it does such a good job of keeping the temperature, your
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body temperature from kind of like just going into wherever it
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goes. It just keeps you insulated and
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keeps you warm. And it's super lightweight and,
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and you would be surprised at how warm this thing keeps you.
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So when you usually like like the gloves as I'm going up, I,
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I'm super light. I just have maybe like a, like a
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long sleeve thing and then a T-shirt over it.
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And then like when I, right before I get to the top, I throw
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that thing on and I start going down or if I'm above tree line
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or whatever. And it does a great job.
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So I bring that with me like pretty much every run.
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And then I'll get into just a few of the safety things that I
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that I bring with me every run. This is stuff that I'll either
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put on my pack or like my running belt if I'm going or my
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shorts or wherever, depending on if I have a pack or not, or if
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I'm doing a local run. But I always keep an emergency
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blanket. I think this one is pretty
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self-explanatory. Most people have one super
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lightweight good to have in a pinch.
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And then this is one that I, I wouldn't bring on local runs,
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but pretty much every mountain winter run that I go on, I will
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bring a bivvy. This is like a, I don't know,
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it's kind of like a sleeping bag bivvy.
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It's basically just a buff, you know, a buffed up emergency
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thermal blanket. But it, it encapsulates your
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whole body. Like I think the blank is
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blanket is just the sheet, which is good.
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But sometimes, you know, if it's windy or whatever, it's
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flapping, that is like a this is like a, it's a bivvy.
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It's not like a bivvy that gets sleeping or anything, but it's
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just a thermal blanket Pivy that you can get your whole body in
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and zip it up very easily. So I always bring that with me.
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And then another thing I always bring with me, I usually don't
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and I actually don't. I mean, I do have one, but I
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don't usually bring an outer hard, hard shell.
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And this is where the this is not a safety talk, folks.
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This is just the talk. I feel like what is a shell?
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A shell is just like a impermeable barrier that, you
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know, keeps the wind out and keeps water out.
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And I think there's lots of super expensive shells on the
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market. There's lots of things you can
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get and I have one for, but I think a rain poncho does close
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to what some of those other things do.
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It's super lightweight and in a pinch, this thing will keep you
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warm. I mean, it's, it's just an
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impermeable layer that you can throw over yourself to.
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It's 100% waterproof. It just keeps the rain, keeps
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the window. And so I think it's a good layer
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that can keep you really, really warm.
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This is like, you know, it's the same sense as this, this
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lightweight throw over, except it is waterproof.
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So I bring that. I bring that most runs in the in
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the summer too, but definitely in the winter.
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And then I also have a lighter and like a little bit of like a
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fire starter just to have, it's good to have that stuff if you
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need it in a pinch. And then last day I ran every
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run a little thing of toilet paper.
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You know the you know the deal, OK.
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And then two other things that I have on my bring on every run
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list is just going to be water and food stuff.
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So I guess we'll do a quick food thing first.
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In the winter, I really love Maple syrup as fuel just because
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it it takes longer to freeze. Like a lot of snacks will freeze
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up pretty quick, but syrup stands the test of time a little
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bit better out there. And instead of buying like the
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untapped, which is very yummy, very good, but it's very
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expensive. If you can get just like a large
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like if you buy like a gallon of syrup or whatever, just buy a
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larger batch of just whatever syrup, local syrup.
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I put it in these little 2, I think they're 2 ounce Nalgene
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bottles. And this is just how I instead
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of, you know, having a bunch of those little untapped packets,
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you can just have like a little on the go thing.
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It fits good in one of your packs.
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Yeah. And I use these things for a
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few, few things actually for running like a lot of times I'll
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put it's actually almost the perfect size for like a serving
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of whatever liquid hydration you use.
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So I'll put it in that instead of dealing with like the
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individual packets. Yeah, I like those things.
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I have a bunch of them. And then mainly what I use for
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water in the winter is just regular soft flasks.
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So 500 milliliters, soft flasks. So this is another thing I want
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to talk about. How do I keep my water a liquid
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I think was my note. How do I keep my water liquid?
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Because obviously in in the winter just freezes up.
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And I will, I will kind of say that I on the longer days, like
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if I was going for 4567 hours, this would probably not work or
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I'd have to, I'd have to bring more reinforcements.
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But pretty much all my winter runs, I just bring those because
22:08
I'm usually doing two or three hours maybe for Max.
22:13
So how do I keep my water warm in those because they're not
22:15
insulated or anything. I think the first step is in the
22:19
morning or the night before, I will just fill them up with
22:22
water. And if you, and if you have put
22:25
something in there and have the water be room temperature or
22:29
warmer, you can start with warm water from your faucet.
22:32
I don't know, sometimes not that it tastes weird or whatever, but
22:35
I don't know, I get weird about putting warm water in in things.
22:39
Yeah, there's more I don't know, but but anyway, so I usually
22:42
start with like room temperature water or warm water that
22:45
basically just takes it longer for the outdoors to get it down
22:48
to a freezing point, which kind of makes sense.
22:51
So that's an easy, just put warm water in your in your bottles
22:54
before you go. And then your last sip was
22:56
usually like ice cold. That's how you know you did it
22:58
right. So that's going to help it from
23:00
freezing. The second tip is, and I'm a big
23:03
advocate of liquid nutrition, like I just put in whatever
23:06
sugar mix that you have. I think it's just an easy way to
23:10
stay on top of your calories on longer days in the mountains.
23:13
But when you have lots of sodium, it is going to lower the
23:17
freezing point and it's just going to make it harder to
23:19
freeze. So I, I will put 4 scoops, 4
23:24
servings of liquid nutrition into a 500 milliliter bottle.
23:28
Basically just get it super salty, super sweet.
23:31
I know a lot of people don't like that, but I just, I, I
23:33
don't mind it. And, and then the winter like I
23:37
just have maybe like one thing of syrup and that's like all I
23:39
need or maybe a couple other things.
23:41
But it just makes it super simple because in the winter I
23:44
want everything simple. I want the lowest amount of
23:46
things to have to deal with and, and fuss with.
23:50
And then yeah, the another thing with the, with the soft flash,
23:54
just like if you had a bladder pack, you need to be sucking
23:58
from what was it called the nipple every 5 minutes or so to
24:04
keep it from freezing because that, that top, that like nipple
24:07
top is going to freeze first. So you want to be, you want to
24:12
be drinking from both all of your flax flasks every 5
24:18
minutes. So like little sip here, little
24:20
sip here, little sip here, little sip here.
24:21
You don't want to just drink one and then drink the second one
24:24
because the time you start the second one, that that nozzle
24:26
will be frozen. And so yeah, if you're just
24:28
constantly sipping it, that's going to keep it clear from
24:31
freezing up. And then inevitably when you're
24:35
out there long enough or it's cold enough, it is going to
24:37
freeze up. Once it freezes up, you just
24:40
have to stop and unscrew the cap and then drink through that
24:44
circle and that will give you like another 30 minutes or an
24:48
hour. And then after, by the time like
24:52
that start getting hard, the whole thing just turns to slush.
24:55
And hopefully by the time your drink turns to slush because it
24:58
gets really unpleasant to drink at that point, you're maybe 3-4
25:03
hours in and you're done. You're back at the car.
25:07
So that's how we keep the liquid all warm.
25:11
And that is basically the all the stuff that I bring on like
25:15
every winter run, kind of the essentials, the essential kit
25:19
that can go in a vest or go in a running belt or whatever you're
25:22
going to take on your runs. And this isn't just for mountain
25:24
stuff. That's for, you know, any, any
25:26
local trails or whatever. Next we're going to get into the
25:30
packs. So what packs do I use?
25:33
So I mean, it depends again on temperature and stuff, how much
25:36
stuff you're bringing. But I have two running vests, so
25:43
one of them is a 5 liter running vest.
25:45
I don't wear this much in the winter.
25:47
It's a little bit more delicate and I feel like in the winter
25:49
you kind of get snagged up on stuff more.
25:52
But if I'm going super light I will just bring that.
25:55
But usually in the winter I'm bringing my bigger Solomon
25:59
vests. I think this is like a 16 or 18.
26:02
No, it's not 18 liter. The 12 maybe this might be a 12
26:06
liter, but it's a little bit bigger and it's super stretchy
26:10
like you can fit so much stuff in these packs if you stretch it
26:13
out. So it just has more space
26:16
because in the winter you do you do have more things that you
26:18
need. So I just bring this.
26:20
It's an older one for me. It's a beater, but it still does
26:23
the job and one thing I want to talk about on this vest is I
26:28
have a little bit of a ADIY. So these are gear ties.
26:33
You can buy gear ties at like any, you know, REI or whatever,
26:38
but I think these are actually like Amazon garden ties and I
26:42
actually had to double them up to make them a little bit
26:43
stronger. But what I use the gear ties for
26:47
a lot of people don't have a good way to strap snowshoes to a
26:50
running vest. And if you have like the light
26:53
Dion snowshoes or some sort of light running snowshoe, you
26:57
know, you, you don't want to have to like bring a big pack
26:59
just to strap on your snowshoes. A lot of the times you, if you
27:02
know, you can just put on your snow shoes from the start, that
27:05
just works. You don't have to put them on
27:06
your pack, but sometimes you do need to kind of put them on your
27:09
pack for a little bit or it's more comfortable.
27:11
And So what I did on these Solomon packs, if you can see
27:16
this, you know, like hopefully, hopefully all this stuff has
27:19
been in the picture, but I just like cut a little hole in one of
27:25
them. I don't know if that's going to
27:27
come up good, but in one of the arm or the shoulder, not
27:30
armpits, but like shoulder straps, I cut a little hole in
27:33
one of the fabric. There's a bunch of fabrics in
27:35
there. And then I feed the gear tie
27:38
through the whole thing. And I do that on both sides.
27:42
And then basically all you have to do is you put your stuff in
27:45
your pack and then you lay your snowshoes over your pack and the
27:49
gear ties, strap them around a good sturdy thing in your
27:52
snowshoes and just tie them tight.
27:54
And the gear ties don't come undone.
27:56
They're super strong and it's just an easy way to carry
28:00
snowshoes on the back of your pack.
28:02
I'm sure probably some of the newer packs are getting better
28:05
at having some sort of attachment that you could use,
28:08
but this is what I use. I mean, it's a Peter pack
28:11
anyway. I have lots of holes in it, so
28:12
you just cut like a little hole and then it works really good.
28:16
And with those, if you have a super light pair of snowshoes,
28:20
then then it's like it's like no problem.
28:22
And it's super light in your back and you can just roam the
28:26
vest and boom, there you go. The last pack that I have is
28:31
this is an ultimate direction fast pack.
28:34
It is a 20 liter. And this one is just a, it's not
28:37
a vest. It's more of a pack.
28:38
So it has kind of like a sturdy background.
28:41
If I'm doing like a six hour day in the winter, I'll bring that.
28:45
It's just more food. It's kind of sturdier.
28:47
The snowshoes do have attachments on it.
28:50
Just a bigger pack, a different option, But I, I, I don't use
28:54
that one too, too much. I'm usually always wearing a
28:55
running vest, so that's what I that's what I have there.
29:00
I guess we'll go through some of we just thought we were talking
29:03
about the snowshoes, so we'll go through the footwear stuff that
29:05
I use snowshoes. These are Deion's super light.
29:10
You can run in those. It's actually really fun to run
29:13
downhill in those. This is like the closest I'll
29:15
get the skiing on a on a given year.
29:19
They they are that when you get a super lightweight snowshoe and
29:23
you put miles on them, they're just going to fall apart, You
29:26
know, faster than like an MSR snowshoe or something like
29:29
bigger, sturdier, but they're awesome.
29:31
This is like the only ones that I like to use unless you're
29:34
trail breaking like 18 inches of snow or two feet of snow.
29:38
Those are really good. They're not super heavy.
29:40
They don't have the the weight to them if you have a ton of so
29:45
it's not good for like, yeah, super trail breaking missions.
29:48
But for most, for most stuff in the whites, like if you're on a
29:53
used trail, they're like they're they're really good.
29:56
I love those snowshoes. Yeah, I guess as far as traction
30:01
micro spikes, I use micro spikes a fair amount.
30:04
And then I have these black diamond teeny teeny tiny micro
30:12
spikes, teeny verse. Micro verse.
30:15
That's a Rick Morty. Yeah.
30:17
So I don't know what you want to call this, but these are like
30:19
the teeny the teeny, teeny spikes.
30:23
And I mean, this is just much more lightweight than than the
30:27
these are like Catullus the first the micro spikes.
30:30
But both of them do the trick if you so like when do I use each
30:35
of them? Because I, I think I've talked
30:38
about the spice before. I like always going lighter.
30:41
I think more minimal is, is the way I go if I can get away with
30:44
it. And so unless the trail is
30:47
super, super steep or unless it has like A2 plus inches of loose
30:54
kind of beach sandy snow, I think these black diamonds, tiny
30:58
spikes are perfectly will give you just as much grip.
31:01
And I think they're they're good to go.
31:03
So like, I don't know if you can see it, but they are they are so
31:06
small. But if you really, really need
31:11
good grip and you're going up something steep or there's more
31:14
snow, I find that you just the micro spikes are better.
31:17
So I wear I will wear those and they're not super heavy.
31:20
It's just like a little a little weight thing that I like to
31:22
think about. And then if the trails are
31:28
packed very good and it's not super, super steep, a lot of the
31:31
times I just wear studded trail runner shoes.
31:34
These are the the Gore Tex, La Sportiva Blizzards.
31:39
These have been great for me. I've had them for a couple years
31:41
now, two or three years. They have like 88 little metal
31:44
studs in them that give you some traction in there.
31:47
They have a built in Gator which is great and they're Gore Tex
31:50
which will keep your feet a little bit a little bit warm on
31:52
the Super cold days. One note about these shoes when
31:56
I first got them, I think it was this one when I first got them
32:01
right here started to break away.
32:03
The fabric started to break away from whatever this plastic is.
32:07
And I was kind of like upset because you know, these are
32:09
pretty expensive or were pretty expensive or whatever.
32:11
But I just use shoe glue like regular shoe glue to fix that
32:15
and they have not come apart since.
32:19
So that was one thing like shoe glue actually really works for
32:22
for some some shoes if you have something falling apart.
32:25
But I really love these shoes and the built in Gators.
32:28
This is something guys well, I'll talk about in two seconds,
32:31
but I actually don't own a pair of Gators right now, just these
32:34
built in Gators. So those are the last Portiva
32:37
shoes. And then this is just an old
32:39
pair of Hoka Speed sixes. Yeah, super warm.
32:44
But I put in my own spikes on these shoes.
32:48
So pretty much the same studded trail runner stuff that the Elas
32:51
Portivas have. But this is just like a lighter,
32:54
more runnable shoe. I like this on.
32:57
If you're in like a shoulder season season or you're running
33:00
locally where you have a couple patches of snow and ice, but not
33:03
all, and you want to just wear a regular shoe and not wear the
33:06
big gore Tex shoe. I just put these spikes in and I
33:09
think these spikes are from a kit, maybe from a lost Portiva
33:13
kit. So all that I did was there's
33:15
like a screw and then you just screw it into like whatever lugs
33:18
that you want to have the spikes.
33:20
So that's what I that's what I have for footwear there and yes,
33:26
the Gators. So this is when I first got into
33:31
hiking. I had a pair of like the the
33:33
knee high hiking Gators. Actually just sold those
33:36
recently for like, you know, 5 bucks or something, but I had a
33:40
pair of knee high Gators and I really like them.
33:44
But when I started running more, I just felt like when I would
33:48
get done with the run, my entire shin would just be soaking wet
33:53
and, and I was like, I, I need like just ankle ones because
33:58
honestly, if I need Gators up to my knees for hiking, I'm, I'm
34:03
probably going to pick a different, a different trail,
34:07
mountain Rd. indoor tremble, whatever.
34:10
I really, I don't do as many trail breaking missions or, or
34:14
kind of a long term hiking things.
34:16
But I think maybe this is like something I'll talk about.
34:18
And I feel like I mentioned a little bit, but I these days
34:22
that I really am trying to become a better runner and I'm
34:27
really trying to get faster, get more fit, get stronger.
34:30
And I think those like long like 6 hour slogs in snowshoes or
34:34
whatever just don't really, you know, obviously aerobically
34:37
they're great. They're mentally you're going to
34:39
get stronger. But I just don't, they don't
34:44
really help me on my goals right now as much.
34:49
So I used to steer clear of like crazy hiking missions.
34:51
That's why. So some people may say this
34:53
guy's soft now, but it is what it is.
34:56
One other thing that I actually had on my drawing rack.
34:58
I don't know how it got in here is like a running belt.
35:01
This is I used to wear a running belt a lot.
35:04
This is just a Solomon one naked naked where it makes a really
35:08
good belt. I've heard, but I have AI have
35:14
the Tarragonada shorts that have a built in running belt.
35:17
The Tarragonada shorts, if you don't, I don't know if I'm
35:19
saying that right, but they're like super cheap stuff.
35:22
Go look them up online. They're really good and I like
35:24
the shorts and they have a built in belt.
35:26
So I'll just put like a couple snacks, my gloves or whatever
35:29
keys, emergency blanket if I'm if I'm just wearing a belt,
35:32
stuff like that in there. So I do use a running belt a
35:35
lot. OK, let's get into layers.
35:39
Let's get into my layers because I have a few things to talk
35:43
about layers. So we'll start super Bass.
35:46
What do I wear for socks? Oh, these aren't this is our
35:49
mish mask. This is miss masking pair of
35:51
socks. OK, well, one of these socks is
35:55
just like a a lightweight Darn Tough sock.
35:59
I mean, shout out Darn Tough, shout out Vermont.
36:02
I have a lightweight and then mid weight just regular hiking
36:05
socks 90% of the time. 99% of the time that is like enough
36:10
thickness for what I need. I'm trying to move when I'm out
36:13
there. I'm not doing long hiking
36:15
missions like I just said. So I don't need like a ton of
36:19
oomph in my socks. Those in a gore Tex is like as
36:21
warm as my feet need to be. So just a light wear pair of any
36:26
socks. If I don't have those, if I
36:27
don't have those clean like I will just pair wear like any
36:31
pair really of socks. I don't know if my feet just
36:34
don't get cold, but that's what works for me.
36:38
And then the my 1 trick, I have one pair that's like my golden
36:41
pair. I think I got these socks in
36:43
like a middle school or something when I was
36:45
snowboarding, but they're a super long pair of say Duluth
36:50
maybe you know, just regular. I don't know what these are
36:53
socks, some sort of polyester sock, but these go up to almost
36:58
my knee. So we're just talking about the
37:01
gator's going up to my knee. I think that, you know, an
37:03
impermeable Gator just keeps keeps the heat in.
37:06
But this trick, and this is a Mike King trick shout out, he
37:11
would always say, dude, you want a long sock in the winter
37:14
because you just get basically all this extra warmth on your
37:18
legs for no cost. Like, like, no, you don't have
37:22
to wear like an extra leg layer because sometimes it could be
37:24
too hot, too much stuff. So like, dude, this is like half
37:27
of a leg layer because it goes up to your knee.
37:31
So one thing that I think about in the winter, if it's not super
37:35
warm out, some people will see me running in shorts and they're
37:38
like, this guy's an idiot. But what they don't know is I
37:41
usually will have that layer of long shorts underneath for my
37:48
sock. And then I will have a layer
37:51
like a very thin layer, which I think I have.
37:54
Do I have something just like a long John, Right.
37:59
So I have long Johns on. I have the the the thick socks
38:03
and then I wear shorts. And so you would think like this
38:06
guy's just running in shorts. That's crazy.
38:08
But actually my entire leg is super warm.
38:12
The only thing that is exposed and doesn't have like a a good
38:15
thick layer on it is my knee is like your kneecap.
38:19
And what it actually does is it just allows ventilation for your
38:24
whole leg. So you have one little area
38:26
where it's not super covered, but as long as it's not really
38:30
cold, like I've played around this with temperatures enough so
38:33
I kind of know the range of when I can get away with this and I
38:35
don't need pants. But it just gives you like an
38:38
insulated layer to let out a lot of air and all the heat that
38:42
you're they're building up. And then the rest of your leg is
38:44
warm. That's like a little bit of a
38:46
nice trick for, for, for the socks there.
38:50
So that's kind of all I have for socks.
38:53
Where was that? Yeah, like I said, I have, I
38:55
don't know if I have them right here, but I have a, a pair of
38:57
like just long Johns that I'll put on.
39:01
I also have a pair of this is a this isn't like a, this is like
39:05
actual tights. These are like wind tights.
39:08
I usually don't just wear tights.
39:09
I don't know, I usually just don't just wear tights, but this
39:13
is like on a really cold day. If I need tights and something
39:15
else, I'll throw those on underneath just like a thicker
39:19
first layer. And then I just have a pair of
39:21
just regular wind, you know, craft wind pants that I that
39:26
I'll wear. I think the butt is doesn't have
39:29
that like wind layer. So your butt actually can get
39:34
really cold, but it also can can cool you down pretty well.
39:38
So that is like the pair that I usually wear with like long
39:41
drones underneath. And then I have a pair of these.
39:44
I think these are Bay leaf cycling pants.
39:48
I don't these are like, I got these a while ago, but they're
39:51
very insulated and these things are so warm.
39:54
So Bay leaf insulated cycling pants are what I usually wear on
39:59
like the Super cold days and like how many times in the
40:02
winter do I actually need to wear those?
40:04
Probably only a couple like they're almost too warm for
40:07
anything I do. But I haven't podcasting in
40:10
them, so shout out. So those are like that.
40:13
Yeah, those are all the leg layers that I use.
40:17
I thought I had a pair of my thermals, but maybe I didn't put
40:20
it in here. OK.
40:21
And then up top. What am I wearing?
40:25
Just like down low? I have like a just an insulated
40:27
like a thermal layer, some sort of polyester.
40:30
I think I got these on Amazon like a long time ago.
40:34
I think they're like very nice name brand things and and
40:37
expensive things that you can buy and they probably work
40:39
better. But I think for most, you know,
40:41
most days and most gear things, you don't need to go super
40:45
expensive for this stuff. Just get like polyester wool
40:48
layers and that'll work. So usually what I'm wearing up
40:52
top and oh boy, I don't even know if you do this right now,
40:55
usually will be wearing an in like a like a thermal layer.
40:59
And then I will wear one or two T-shirts depending on basically
41:05
depending on how cold it is. And again, like this guy's
41:08
running in T-shirts. What I usually do is on the way
41:11
up, if I'm going, if it's not super cold and I'm working
41:13
pretty hard, I just one or two T-shirts will be enough.
41:17
I like like a vest, but a vest is usually too warm.
41:20
So, so the T-shirt really does a good job of keeping that your
41:23
core body kind of like warmed up a little bit.
41:26
And two of them does an even better job.
41:28
And on the way up, I'll just wear that.
41:30
I'm working pretty hard. You can kind of gauge your body
41:33
temperature. And then once you get to the
41:35
top, you throw on an extra layer or that windbreaker.
41:40
Usually for me, it's just that windbreaker.
41:42
I put that windbreaker on and then you're good to go.
41:46
That's what I wear a lot in the winter.
41:48
I think a lot of people dress too warm in the winter.
41:50
They're taking layers off, they get too sweaty, yadda yadda.
41:53
But yeah, so I'll just wear 2 T-shirts and I don't even know
41:57
if I can actually do this, but a lot of the times I'll be wearing
42:04
this bad boy little run Mountain peak shirt.
42:09
Yeah, I was, I was like thinking about this today when I put this
42:12
in the bin. I was like, I want to, I want to
42:14
show off the shirt a little bit, but I'm actually maybe I'll do 2
42:17
takes. I'm sorry folks, these are not
42:19
for sale only. I have a couple of them, but
42:22
maybe in the future I can make more take.
42:27
And the second one, I was going to say there's a potential that
42:31
I will put these shirts on my website for anyone interested.
42:36
Part of me was like, well, let's just say the merch business
42:40
trying to get these shirts made-up has such a headache to
42:43
printing all these things. I don't have many sizes, lots of
42:47
things I had to send back all this, all this stuff.
42:49
And I don't have a lot of these shirts.
42:51
So I don't want to like put it out there and have people order
42:53
and then be like, oh, I actually don't have this.
42:55
So I was like, I don't know if I could actually do this, but if
42:59
this, if you're listening to this, it means I, I put the
43:03
shirts on the website, I'm not going to do them very expensive.
43:06
Like I don't know, maybe like 10 or 15 bucks or something.
43:08
Like I'm not trying to make a bunch of money off this stuff.
43:12
But anyone who really wants a shirt and you're hearing this,
43:16
yeah, go to my website. There's a, there is a, a green
43:20
shirt. And then like I said, if it's
43:22
really cold out and you need 2 T-shirts to stay a little bit
43:25
warmer, there's a white shirt. So those are the, those are the
43:28
run mountain peak shirts, guys. Yeah, I don't have a lot of
43:31
these I made. You may just go look on the
43:33
website. There'll be one that's like sold
43:35
out. But yeah, I'm going to, I'll try
43:38
to get these on the website. If you haven't.
43:39
If you want to get a shirt, get a shirt.
43:41
But two polyester nice made with a nice like a nice brand or logo
43:46
that you like. Boom.
43:47
Get those shirts for your winter running.
43:51
OK, thousand shirts and then one last upper layer.
43:55
This is also a Bay leaf, so shout out good, good company.
44:00
It's like a wool. This is a wool or polyester,
44:03
whatever. A thicker upper layer.
44:05
If it's really cold, like single digits -10 plus wind chills.
44:10
I will throw this on over my shirts and then this plus that
44:14
windbreaker stuff usually keeps me warm enough through the day.
44:20
OK, We got two more big layers and that's going to be the bulk
44:23
of like what I typically use. And then we'll just go through
44:27
the kind of the extra stuff a little bit quicker.
44:30
But yeah. And then last, last big layer,
44:34
the tried and true puffy. Obviously if it's very, very
44:38
cold, there are most days in the winter you want to have the
44:41
puffy with you. If anything happens, those
44:43
things just keep you so warm. It's like a good down puffy,
44:46
good quality, good to have. And how I usually bring those.
44:50
There's two ways that I typically bring them.
44:53
They say that a pound of 1000 lbs of feathers and 1000 lbs of
44:59
bricks weigh the same. And I'm telling you guys that's
45:04
wait, what am I trying to say that 2 lbs of of of puffy can
45:10
weigh different amounts? Yes, 2 lbs of puffy can weigh
45:13
different amounts. If I just put the puffy in my
45:16
Solomon pack just as is, it takes up a ton of space.
45:20
It's a lot of volume and it just I feel like it bugs me more.
45:23
I don't know if it's drag or whatever.
45:24
It's not drink, it's not weight, whatever.
45:26
But what I like to do is really get it tight into a compact
45:29
little thing. So I have like a big durable
45:32
rubber band that I will roll this thing up like a sleeping
45:35
bag, like a like in Seinfeld. The Oh my God, they're, they're
45:39
rolling the enchiladas too tight.
45:43
All the people are freaking out that the the enchiladas are
45:46
squirting out hot juice. I like to roll them super tight.
45:50
Get it very small because a small tiny rolled up puffy
45:55
weighs less than the same puffy not rolled up.
45:59
Quote me on that. The other tricky news, you can
46:03
roll it up tight and put it in a bag and then shut it up, suck
46:06
the suck the air out and that can do the same thing just like
46:10
keep it compact. I just feel like everything in
46:11
my pack I want to compact and kind of be lighter.
46:15
And then I talked about I also just have like a, a nice letter
46:19
like a, an actual winter shell. Like if if I were to go into the
46:25
Prezi's for a day or something on a cold day like you need like
46:28
an actual winter shell so. That is, that's that is.
46:35
Most of my gear, that's all the the like, important gear that I
46:38
use, I'm trying to think like if I missed anything, I may have
46:42
stuff like in the laundry or I don't know, I may have things I
46:45
didn't fully get to. But that's a lot of the gear
46:48
that I use, like tips and tricks.
46:53
Yeah, for. Winter stuff and I guess.
46:56
I will say this, I have gone through the process.
46:58
I've got rid of a lot of stuff. I try to not have too much.
47:02
Stuff in my life? Try to.
47:03
Be more of a minimalist. So I really only keep things
47:06
that I that I, if I have not used it in the last year,
47:09
usually I just get rid of it, donate it, sell it, whatever.
47:13
So I don't have too much stuff in my like accessory hiking
47:17
stuff, but we'll see what we have in here.
47:19
This is like stuff that I use once in awhile, but so this is
47:22
just a full head and neck gaiter with like an A kind of like.
47:28
The holes for your. Mouth on really cold days.
47:31
I don't use that too much. I think just like a regular neck
47:34
gaiter will do most of the trick, but is what it is.
47:37
I have a light winter hat. This is just I guess a more
47:40
lightweight one. That's actually like I said
47:43
before, usually the thick winter hats are too warm for me.
47:46
That's actually a pretty good lightweight one, but for
47:48
whatever reason I just don't use it.
47:50
I just think the Gator with a cat with a ball cap just does
47:53
does as much headlamp. Obviously I have.
47:59
Yeah, these are these are Gators.
48:01
Some of the stuff is in winter stuff.
48:02
We'll go through this. Oh, all right.
48:03
I got a couple good things in here that's, you know, doesn't
48:07
have to apply. I have a pair of sunglasses.
48:10
I am not a sunglasses person. I pretty much never wear
48:14
sunglasses. Maybe like one or two days out
48:17
of the year bites me when I'm like it like above tree line and
48:20
the snow just beaming sun at me or from on like a lake or
48:24
something in the in the the the waters just destroying my eyes.
48:27
But I just don't like wearing them.
48:29
I don't need I don't wear glasses or contacts.
48:31
I don't like things on my face. It's just like, I don't know, I
48:34
just like don't like them. So I I have like an old pair of
48:37
sunglasses. I use them once in a while.
48:39
Once in a while cycling, I'll use them.
48:40
But one thing that I do use once in a while, these are
48:45
construction glasses. And you, you're probably
48:48
thinking, Andrew, this, this should be in your, your tool
48:52
bin, not your running bin. Well, no, they're in my running
48:55
bin. In the winter when it gets
48:58
really cold out and you're going for like a, a hard downhill
49:03
descent, going for a segment or whatever, your eyes will water.
49:07
For me. It gets like really bad
49:08
sometimes it's like tears crying, I'm going down this hill
49:12
and your eyes water. It's just 'cause that cold air
49:15
is hitting your eyes. It's you know, you're going so
49:17
fast that it makes you tear up. And instead of buying like a
49:21
nice expensive pair of glasses you can just use like these
49:25
cheap construction glasses. It's just see through.
49:27
It's just, there's no prescription or anything.
49:29
It just keeps the winds out of your eyes when you're bombing a
49:32
downhill in the winter. So those are, these are like
49:35
winter downhill glasses, goggles kind of.
49:40
I do have a pair of goggles. I don't love wearing goggles.
49:43
I've talked about it before. Don't love getting out on
49:45
goggles. If I need goggles, I'll probably
49:47
just stay below a tree line. Here's the tool kits for those,
49:52
those little studs that I put in my shoes.
49:55
This is just like what the wrench looks like.
49:57
I guess I could show you. But yeah, this is La Sportiva.
50:00
I was right about that. And yeah, it's just like this
50:04
tool. And then you have these, it's
50:06
just this tool and you have these little studs and you just
50:08
screw it into your shoe. So I have that in there.
50:14
First aid kit there's just some mist first aid in there that I
50:17
don't bring with me. I have a Garmin in reach,
50:19
another bivy Body Glide, Vaseline, an extra pair of an
50:27
extra poncho, an extra emergency blankets.
50:30
Yeah, that's all the stuff that I have in there.
50:32
Some wipes. I said in reach, another pair of
50:35
black diamond, black diamond micro tiny spikes.
50:40
Yeah. So the those black micro diamond
50:43
tiny spikes, if it is super snowy, like you have really
50:47
loose snow and you're running fast on a steep descent
50:50
downhill, those things just come off your shoes pretty.
50:54
I don't know if I have like too big of a size, but they just
50:57
come off your shoes a lot. I've heard, I've heard it from
51:00
other people too. So yeah, if you're wearing
51:02
those, those light black diamond micro spikes, just be careful
51:06
that they don't fly off. I actually when I ordered them,
51:09
I shouldn't even say this. No, I can't.
51:10
I mean, this is a what is that statute of limitations, which I
51:15
don't think is how it supplies, but I ordered those, those,
51:18
those spikes once and they just sent me two of them for no
51:21
reason. They billed me for one, they
51:22
sent me two. So I just had a backup pair and
51:26
I guess I'll just put that on the Internet.
51:27
I hope Black Diamond doesn't come from me.
51:29
Like, I guess I could have sent them back, but I just didn't.
51:33
So they're kind of expensive and and they fly off.
51:36
So maybe that maybe that's just like they send everybody two
51:38
bears because they know they fly off and then people don't
51:41
complain about it. But I guess I complain and I out
51:44
outed myself. Yeah.
51:46
Black Diamond don't come for me. Yeah.
51:48
What is statute of limitations? I think it's if something a long
51:52
time ago happens, you can't get in trouble for it.
51:55
But I'm pretty sure it's only if people find out about it.
52:00
Like if something happened 20 years ago and you get caught
52:02
now, you can you can get in trouble.
52:04
But if you get caught 20 years ago, people find out about it 20
52:07
years ago, but then they don't charge you for 20 years, then
52:11
it's you're free off. So yeah, yeah, don't buy time
52:17
and don't come after me. That's all I'm saying.
52:21
What else do we have in here? Do I have anything in here?
52:23
Extra batteries. I have a whistle.
52:26
I think whistles are. Whistles are that's one of the
52:28
10 essentials. Like I talked about.
52:30
Blinking lights, matches, Leuco tape, some blister kit stuff.
52:35
Extra lights, extra batteries in this one.
52:38
Yeah, nothing too crazy. OK, that was my full gear kit.
52:46
So I hope, I hope that was helpful.
52:49
I hope that was, I'm sure I missed a few things, but that is
52:53
like the gist of what I bring with me.
52:55
So hopefully that kind of helps some of you guys out give you
52:59
some ideas. I feel like I've learned a lot
53:02
of, you know, you take gear tips and, and, and yeah, different,
53:08
different clothing stuff or whatever from lots of different
53:11
people and you kind of come up with your own kit that works for
53:14
you. And so, you know, if you can get
53:17
like one or two tips out of here that you think is good and can
53:19
kind of like up your kit, that would be that would be super
53:21
helpful. But yeah, that's pretty much all
53:24
the things that I have. I'm trying to think if there's
53:26
anything I'm missing. I think that's pretty much it As
53:31
far as the kit stuff. Yeah, I go really light.
53:33
Like I said, to each his own. Like, I don't know.
53:38
Well, I've talked about this. Before like risk in the
53:39
mountains, anytime you go out there, you are.
53:43
You're, you're, you're there's risk that something could
53:47
happen. And everyone has different kind
53:49
of like weights on how much risk that they're willing to take.
53:52
And you know, if you're on a lot of these 4000 footers in the
53:56
whites or wherever you are, if you're on a popular trail on the
54:00
weekends, even in the winter nowadays, you're going to run
54:03
into people. There's going to be so many
54:04
people on the trail that I think.
54:10
Yeah, on those days it's it's hard.
54:12
I I. Think for for people to get into
54:14
serious trouble because there's just people out there.
54:16
But if you're on a trail all by yourself, you're the last person
54:19
on the trail. You're at night, it's super
54:21
cold, all these things, no one else is out.
54:23
That's when things are really, really risky.
54:24
So when there's more people, you can go a little bit lighter, get
54:28
away with it. You know, you're just going to
54:29
get a couple snarky comments from hikers.
54:31
But if, if you're if you're on your own, definitely be
54:36
self-sufficient. Always have a plan.
54:39
Like I said, the 10 essentials are really good.
54:41
Everyone make sure you have your hike safeguard.
54:43
I feel like at the beginning of the year, a lot of people forget
54:47
about the hike safeguard and I do sometimes.
54:49
Luckily for for. So you're in a hike safeguard or
54:53
a hunting and fishing license in New Hampshire and you get the
54:55
same kind of benefits. But yeah, those a couple months
54:58
in the beginning, like those are the months that actually
55:00
something serious could happen. And then if you don't have your
55:02
hunt safeguard or hike safeguard, hunt, hunt and
55:05
fishing license and you have to get rescued for whatever reason,
55:08
you can get hit with a big bill. So make sure you have that.
55:12
And yeah, like I said, this was not a safety talk.
55:15
Don't come after me if something goes wrong with you.
55:18
But OK, that is the full gear talk.
55:21
Let me know if you missed anything.
55:22
If you have any tips and tricks, gear things, let me know.
55:26
I guess polls, now that I'm thinking of it, I do have polls
55:30
and I didn't bring those. I guess I wouldn't really think
55:33
those as as like winter. I know some people in the winter
55:36
do use those a lot more, but I just don't use poles really.
55:39
So I didn't bring those. But that's another gear tip that
55:42
I actually I do have. But yeah, let me know if I miss
55:45
anything, if you guys have any tips or tricks that you use that
55:49
works well that I didn't talk about, like comment it or, or
55:53
just like e-mail it to me. And 'cause I'm always looking
55:56
for like, you know, better ways to, to be more efficient and get
55:59
my kit just very dialed for the mountains.
56:03
That's all we got. The one thing I didn't want to
56:05
forget about is the tongue twister that I was talking
56:08
about. SO2 tongue twisters that I want
56:11
to do. And I, and I guess, you know,
56:13
it's just me on here right now. We got we got some guests coming
56:16
on, but it's just me, two tongue twisters head a couple me and a
56:21
couple of people were were having fun with the first one
56:25
rear wheel drive. OK, This one was like, I don't
56:29
know if I've, I don't, I've never heard.
56:31
I don't know if this is a tongue twister, but me and Josh and
56:33
we're talking about it. We're like, wow, say that five
56:35
times faster, three times faster, whatever.
56:37
Couldn't do it. This is on like one of those
56:39
snowy days where you're just talking about like 4 wheel drive
56:42
or something. So, but rear wheel drive.
56:45
And I guess I've had like a little bit of practice or
56:47
whatever, but I haven't, not today like when we were talking.
56:50
But I'll give it to you guys. This is my as I'm going to try a
56:54
few times as hard as I can to do rear wheel drive three times
56:57
fast. OK, here we go tongue twister
57:00
time. And I'm really bad at talking
57:02
anyway. I have a problem with like
57:04
enunciating, mumbling words. Sometimes letters stuff don't
57:07
make sense to me. So this is like just double
57:09
trouble for me. And it's also crazy that I have
57:12
a podcast, which is like just talking.
57:14
But I think it's I think it's OK.
57:16
I can get through the podcast OK Rear wheel drive, rear wheel
57:21
drive, rear wheel drive, rear wheel drive.
57:23
That wasn't actually that bad, but I was saying rear rear wheel
57:27
drive, rear wheel, rear wheel drive, rear wheel drive, rear
57:29
wheel drive rear What? Holy smokes, it's really hard
57:34
to. Rear hit the.
57:35
The R at the end of rear rear wheel drive, rear wheel drive,
57:40
rear wheel drive, rear wheel drive, rear wheel drive, rear
57:42
wheel drive, rear drive. I think I'm just saying real,
57:46
real wheel drive. But OK, that was that was the
57:49
real drive rear. That was the rear wheel drive
57:53
one rear wheel drive, rear wheel drive is rear.
57:57
Just a weird word like is that a word we're not supposed to say
58:00
and think about Rear, rear, rear, rear, rear wheel drive.
58:07
OK, that was the first one and the second one.
58:09
This one I had not heard before, but this one I think is an
58:11
actual tongue twister. It's red leather, yellow
58:15
leather, which at first I'm like you're saying leather twice,
58:19
like I don't know, that's kind of weird.
58:20
Like I was saying, is it red leather, yellow weather?
58:23
No, it's red leather, yellow leather and three times fast.
58:28
This one when I say, and it's been a while, it's kind of cold
58:31
today, so my mouth is also going to be it's like a little bit
58:33
harder, but my mouth just stops. We're going to try this.
58:36
OK, Red leather, yellow leather, red leather, yellow leather, red
58:40
leather, red leather, red leather, yellow, red.
58:49
It's like I just stopped think like being able to talk.
58:53
Red Lily, yellow, red leather, red leather, yellow, red
58:55
leather, yellow the red leather, yellow the red leather.
58:59
Oh my God. So stupid So.
59:02
Stupid. This is what you get.
59:03
This is what you get. Red leather, yellow.
59:06
Weather red weather Yellow. Red leather, red.
59:10
Yeah. If I go too fast, I get real
59:12
drive. Real drive, real drive.
59:13
That one's much easier. Red leather, Yellow.
59:15
Red leather. Yellow leather.
59:17
Red leather, yellow leather. This is.
59:21
That one's hard. OK, The real drive isn't, I
59:24
don't think one. But try red leather, yellow
59:26
leather. Holy smokes.
59:27
And ask a bunch of people to do it because everyone, like, is
59:29
always like, I could say that. And then they just seem stupid.
59:32
But all right, that's all I have this week.
59:35
This is a cold weather gear talk.
59:38
We got to get through this cold. It's it's this, this is
59:41
horrible. Every weekend.
59:42
I have AI have a a theory like a lot of times in the summer and
59:47
stuff, it just rains every weekend.
59:50
And in the winter, like these coldest days are just every
59:52
weekend. And it's like if you work during
59:54
the week, every weekend, you're just hit with these bad
59:56
conditions. Does it have something to do
59:59
with our commuting pattern? Like people, commuting Monday to
1:00:03
Friday changes the dynamics of the weather.
1:00:07
I don't know, could be Oh, also somebody commented on my podcast
1:00:11
last last week, Angus King the third is like as like the son of
1:00:16
a senator of a Maine US senator or something like that.
1:00:19
And I just I just shouted him out because I thought Angus King
1:00:23
the third was like a funny, super funny, cool name, but
1:00:26
somebody comments to that was too.
1:00:27
I didn't know that. And it sounds like he's like AI
1:00:31
looked him up. I don't know if he's like a the
1:00:34
governor or something. I don't know.
1:00:35
But Angus King, the third. Yeah, somebody coming to that
1:00:38
last video. But OK, I just popped into my
1:00:40
brain. That's all I got this week.
1:00:42
Thanks for sticking with us. Stay in tune for this episode.
1:00:46
I don't. Why did I say it?
1:00:47
Stick with us. Stay in tune.
1:00:48
That's what you said at the beginning.
1:00:49
I sometimes I just, you know, thanks for watching.
1:00:52
I appreciate everybody. Hope you enjoyed.
1:00:55
Hope you helped with the gears, this gear talk.
1:00:57
See you next time. Peace.
1:01:01
But before we dive into the gear talk, 62nd training tip for you
1:01:05
all. Right now I'm currently taking a
1:01:07
deload week and I think that a lot of people are not taking
1:01:13
down weeks or deload weeks in their training as much as they
1:01:16
should be. So for me, every three to four
1:01:19
weeks I will take a down week and I'll reduce my training like
1:01:23
30 to 50%. This is a popular Rd.
1:01:30
I'll keep it in. Now, Is this 62nd talk?
1:01:32
I'll keep it in, yeah. So I'll reduce my training 30 to
1:01:37
30 to 50%. Usually it's like if I'm
1:01:40
training 2 hours on a day, I'll just go for like 45 minutes or
1:01:43
an hour for each of my stuff. I'll keep my speed stuff in, but
1:01:47
it really just allows your body to adapt to the training.
1:01:51
And I'm going to restart this. OK.
1:01:57
But before we get into the gear talk, I want to do a 62nd
1:02:00
training tip. So I'm currently OK.
1:02:08
But before OK, before we get into the gear talk though, I
1:02:12
want to do a 62nd training tip. The tip for this week is current
1:02:19
OK. Before we get into the gear
1:02:20
talk, I want to do a 62nd training tip.
1:02:29
This would be a funny one to. Leave.
1:02:30
Yeah. I don't know if I will.
1:02:33
OK, before we get. Into the gear talk.
1:02:35
Though I want to do a 62nd training tip.
1:02:37
So the tip for this week is I think more people should be
1:02:42
taking D load. OK, before we get into the
1:02:47
training talk today. I want to do.