I’ve been rattling on about things like how people should buy softshells not waterproofs and how wool will rarely be the wrong choice for years. I’ve also spent a lot of time this year (and I mean months in some cases) trying and failing to find the performance sweet spot of new, heavily hyped tech. As I wrote my last anguished essay about a piece of gear that had let me down, I realized that I needed to put my core temperature where my mouth was and properly research at what point really basic clothing became a comfort and potentially safety issue. So here’s my catch up on how that’s going and where I’m taking the experiments next.
