| 'Cool, wicking lightweight shirt for hot weather' |  | Strengths:
Versatile, Lightweight shirt for walking and hillwalking. Good wicking, quick-drying material.
Loose cut for airflow.
Excellent pockets. | | Weaknesses:
A bit long to leave untucked.
Silly rolled up sleeve tabs. | | Overall:
There comes a time when it's so hot you don't want to wear something that wicks your sweat away. You want your sweat there, on your body, evaporating, keeping you cool. Because it's hot. But then you want something cut loose enough that the air can circlate to get to that sweat. And you also want something that won't get soggy and stick to your back when you take your pack off.
Reach for the Rohan Long Trail shirt. A hot day up Tryfan and I reamined cool when all around were melting, and that chilly back was avoided, because the shirt hangs away from you when you take your pack off, and the material dries so fast.
There's a pair of good pockets, one of which will take a map (with slight bending) but handy anyway. There are silly tabs to hold your rolled up sleeves up, but mine have never fallen down before and they are dangerously close to epaulettes, and then we are talking safari suits.... (I'm going to cut them off).
Although Rohan seem to be more for the affluent traveller this is a good hard working piece of kit, also at home on the Glacier and not just the ethnic bus. Bit pricy, but you'll appreciate it. |
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