>>2290220>who gives a shit? i and my friends have thousands of hours next to a campfire, collectively. i think only one of us has had a single small hole and patching that took a whopping ten secondsYou can use a wool blanket or jacket to put out a small fire. Try doing that with synthetic.
>this only happens if you wear the inappropriate shell clothingSaying "it only happens if you don't wear a raincoat" is a stupid cop-out; if you wear a shell over wool, you stay dry too. So what?
>and wool taking centuries to dry is a way bigger problem than being cold for 5 minutesWool retains 80% of its insulation value while wet. Synthetic has ZERO insulation value while wet. Get your wool clothes wet, you won't die of hypothermia while waiting for them to dry. Get your synthetics wet, and you're fucked. And good luck drying out "in 5 minutes" unless you're next to a fucking fire.
>windproof synthetics do it way betterAnd they also don't breathe, so condensation builds up inside and you sweat.
>synthetic at a similar weight is literally 10 times as durableBlatantly untrue.
>the only real benefit for woolHardly. For one thing, it doesn't shed microplastics for you to breathe in and get cancer.
>there are plenty of silent syntheticsAre any of them waterproof and windproof, or are you only referring to 'fleece' hoodies?
>true, but only if you don't know how to properly layer synthetics or use cheap shitYou think not having to wear multiple layers might be an advantage? Or not spending $500 on a jacket?
>just as true for fleeceTrue, to an extent, but synthetic fleece CAN and does compress and/or wear thin over time. Unlike wool.
>doesn't smell when dirtyNo shit, think that might be a positive and not a negative?
>wool is not antimicrobialYes, it is. How else do you explain it killing odor caused by bacteria?
