What to wear on cold days - Page 3 - Snowboarding Forum

snowman55 · 02-12-2013, 12:33 AM

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Originally Posted by poutanen

Yeah, just take the padding and hard plastic out first. Mine was starting to smell like hockey gear, the GF washed it for me now I'm less stinky.

Honestly though I bought it for the protection, and the side effect is I'm really warm. For full on spring riding I just wear the armor with no jacket.

How is the breath-ability? I sweat alot when I ride, even in real cold weather.

poutanen · 02-12-2013, 09:20 AM

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Originally Posted by snowman55

How is the breath-ability? I sweat alot when I ride, even in real cold weather.

The only area I sweat in it is the spine protector area... That's why I wear a spring jacket now unless it's -10 C or colder. The base layer under it does get STINKY!!!

jliu · 02-12-2013, 10:04 AM

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Originally Posted by poutanen

Honestly though I bought it for the protection, and the side effect is I'm really warm. For full on spring riding I just wear the armor with no jacket.

OooOO....the Mad Max meets snowboarding look...i like

As I'm getting older...demon protection has definitely interested me...some showed up on canadian cartel a few weeks ago and I was tempted to get some upper body protection...i just cant take falls like I use to.

poutanen · 02-12-2013, 10:38 AM

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Originally Posted by jliu

As I'm getting older...demon protection has definitely interested me...some showed up on canadian cartel a few weeks ago and I was tempted to get some upper body protection...i just cant take falls like I use to.

Yeah I was looking at the Canadian Cartel stuff unfortunately they didn't have the one thing I wanted which was pants!

I used to play in the park at Blue Mountain all the time, and I'd fall and get right back up again. I bruised my tailbone once and that had me off my board for a few days when I was 16, but otherwise it seemed like nothing really hurt!

Now I'm bigger, heavier, and more brittle, and after paying $1000+ for a season pass each year I want my moneys worth. So if armor keeps me on the slopes then it's worth it to me...

deeppowder · 02-12-2013, 06:35 PM

I bet you look like Iron man in the spring with just that on!

poutanen · 02-12-2013, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by deeppowder

I bet you look like Iron man in the spring with just that on!

Photographic evidence...

Bullboy145 · 02-14-2013, 10:34 PM

Awesome photo dude. Might keep this in mind when I get into the later years, thankfully I got a long way to go though.

edlo · 02-14-2013, 11:53 PM

My cheap shit has no name or model
Feet: sock liner , sock , M4 hotronic foot warmer
Pants: Quicksilver pants, fleece pajama type pants, tighter fleece under layer basic thermal long John, base layer , exoffico

Top:quicksilver10,000 jacket with magnet instead of Velcro shell, light jacket, acrylic poly blend long sleeve, long sleeve base layer, long sleeveless basketball shirt , base layer tee shirt.

Hand : swany toaster leather mittens, with liners, hand warmers
Neck and head: neck gator, fleece balaclava, scarf, fleece ninja hood thing, hat with mask, helmet

I've only used all these layers twice , one blue jay day in vail and one storm at mammoth. The mammoth storm was epic no one was out on a weekend. First time I saw them running the cats on the runs all day. It was fresh tracks every run , the seven layers were worth it.

I could probably buy warmer stuff but layers also add to my cushion

deeppowder · 02-15-2013, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by poutanen

Photographic evidence...

haha nice pic man

IS3_FTW · 02-17-2013, 01:40 PM

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Originally Posted by SnowRock

I run kind of warm but at Stowe two weeks ago with high temps at the base at 0 and -9 up top:

Tech or capilene tee
EMS t3 baselayer mid-zip
Patagonia Nano Puff Vest
TNF Shell
t3 base layer on the bottom and sometimes an extra set of tech shorts underneath
Pants (mt. hardware)
Mittens w. fleece liners (OR)

I basically use a combo like this with a different level baselayer depending upon how cold. Sometimes I go fleece vest versus nano puff, and I have a puff mid-layer jacket but tried wearing it once and it was too warm.

Where did you find the fleece liners? Im looking for something thicker than my thin warm weather inner liners with my OR mittens

02-14-2013, 10:34 PM	#27 (permalink)
Bullboy145 Member Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Rochester, MN Posts: 72	What to wear on cold days Awesome photo dude. Might keep this in mind when I get into the later years, thankfully I got a long way to go though.

02-14-2013, 11:53 PM	#28 (permalink)
edlo Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: So Cal Posts: 146 Blog Entries: 1	Layer after layer My cheap shit has no name or model Feet: sock liner , sock , M4 hotronic foot warmer Pants: Quicksilver pants, fleece pajama type pants, tighter fleece under layer basic thermal long John, base layer , exoffico Top:quicksilver10,000 jacket with magnet instead of Velcro shell, light jacket, acrylic poly blend long sleeve, long sleeve base layer, long sleeveless basketball shirt , base layer tee shirt. Hand : swany toaster leather mittens, with liners, hand warmers Neck and head: neck gator, fleece balaclava, scarf, fleece ninja hood thing, hat with mask, helmet I've only used all these layers twice , one blue jay day in vail and one storm at mammoth. The mammoth storm was epic no one was out on a weekend. First time I saw them running the cats on the runs all day. It was fresh tracks every run , the seven layers were worth it. I could probably buy warmer stuff but layers also add to my cushion

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02-12-2013, 06:35 PM	#25 (permalink)
deeppowder Member Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 43	I bet you look like Iron man in the spring with just that on!