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Dry Fit vs Cotton, for Hot & Dry Climate

Anonymous Mon 13 Nov 2023 19:07:45 No.2666818 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>2666885 >>2666963 >>2667059 >>2667530

I want to know your experiences using cotton and dry fit in hot and dry enviroments.

I only used cotton, and the sweat he retain from after a 4 hour hike seems to help me maintain my temperature in the way back to the starting point.

Does the dry fit helps in this climate or is it just for cold weather layering and gym rats?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Nov 2023 22:08:26 No.2666885 Report

Quoted By: >>2666914

>>2666818
Let's assume you ain't trolling, dri fit will be lighter and comfier, the faster evaporation means you will be cooler

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Nov 2023 23:00:07 No.2666914 Report

Quoted By: >>2666919 >>2666959

>>2666885
How the sweat evaporating will make me cooler?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Nov 2023 23:18:52 No.2666919 Report

Quoted By: >>2666935

cotton is infinitely more comfortable, with the downside (or upside depending on how you view it) that it absorbs all the moisture surrounding it - so you will get soaked on a hard hike, This is at best uncomfortable and at worst dangerous on a longer hike, especially in very cold weather, though just an uncomfortable nuisance if it is warm to hot out.

If you are backpacking more than 2 days, cotton is fairly impractical, but for a day hike, even a long one, I recommend bring a change, or two, or even three for the hike and as they get soaked, swap em out. This is the patrician way to hike. Also, recommend bringing an extra pair of underwear for the end of the hike to change into if it's a harder hike.

>>2666914
It really depends how much you sweat, how hard the hike is, and what the humidity and temperature are like out.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Nov 2023 23:53:17 No.2666935 Report

Quoted By: >>2667055

>>2666919
My hikes take at least 8 hours, starting like 1PM and gointo into the night, in the start I would bring a change of clothes, but suddenly I would feel extremely, EXTREMELY hot when I started going back to the starting point, having my wet clothes from sweat seems to have helped a little.

So what am I asking is: Having your cotton clothes wet from your sweat better in hot and dry enviroments, counting it can help you keep your temperature and helping you not to dehydrate? comparing with using dri-fit for an example, that makes your sweat evaporate like anon said?

Cause maybe feeling more cooler wet is just a thing of my mind, if not i dont see any use in dri-fit for hot and dry enviroments

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 Nov 2023 01:11:33 No.2666959 Report

Quoted By: >>2667004

>>2666914
Physics, evaporation cools down the passage from liquid state to gaseous is endothermic, dogs do not sweat so they stick out their tongue where saliva evaporate and cool down the blood vessels,

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 Nov 2023 01:28:00 No.2666963 Report

Quoted By: >>2667010

>>2666818
Cotton sucks, shit gets soaked and NEVER dries

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 Nov 2023 01:32:56 No.2666966 Report

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Cotton basically has a single use case - durable clothing that is affordable. Measured against almost any other fabric it will lose out in other qualities and even the durable/affordable metric is adequate at best. It's not a bad fabric, people who say you can't hike in it are being dumb but there is always something better for the use case or performance criteria.

Dry Fit (or any other thin synthetic SPF fabrics) will be as cool or cooler than cotton, dry significantly faster, weigh less while drenched in your sweat, and probably be more sunproof than cotton. You'll definitely lose to cotton when you brush up against a thorny bush and get little pulls all over your fancy shirt though and unless you shop mega sales it's going to cost more than a cotton tshirt. Get a mid tier sun hoody from REI and never go back to cotton.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 Nov 2023 03:55:23 No.2667004 Report

Quoted By: >>2667010

>>2666959
Oh so the sweat absorves the heat instead of me and it evaporates, so dry-fit is better because it helps in this process, cotton in the other hand makes it difficult. I think I understood

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 Nov 2023 04:07:06 No.2667010 Report

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>>2666963
you know you can bring backup tshirts for when they get soaked?
cotton is the comfiest fabric of all (unless you can afford silk)

>>2667004
but polyester also traps some of the moisture on your skin in a way cotton doesn't, so you get gross, whereas with cotton, so long as you bring BACKUP SHIRTS, you can transfer to a nice dry canvas every so often
you may need 3-4 shirts for a full day hike but it's absolutely worth it to be comfortable the whole time

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 Nov 2023 05:39:49 No.2667042 Report

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The thing with wet clothes is this: evaporative cooling is more pronounced with quicker-drying clothes. If you're active and sweating a lot, you want this, as it helps you cool down when you need it. And when you stop exerting yourself, your shirt will be dryer, so you won't get cold. Cotton just stays wet, doesn't cool you as much during activity and saps the heat from you during a break. This isn't because of evaporative cooling as much as it is because moisture ruins the insulating properties of your clothing and it conducts heat by itself. Wet cotton cools through conduction and convection and it does so at the worst possible moment.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 Nov 2023 14:21:06 No.2667055 Report

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>>2666935
evaporative cooling will keep your body cooler than just your clothing staying wet. sure the latter may make your skin feel cool, but it does nothing to regulate your internal temperature. sweat cools because it evaporates, not because it sits on your skin

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 Nov 2023 14:41:59 No.2667059 Report

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>>2666818
High desert chad here.
Cotton is my favorite fabric because this place can be over 100° in the daytime and if you're right next to a mountain an inversion can fall on you and drop it down to the mid 30°s in the pre dawn hours.
No experience with dry fit. But I'm not part of the anti synthetic gang. I just don't like how itchy synthetics get if your dryer gets too hot.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Nov 2023 18:22:26 No.2667530 Report

Quoted By: >>2667634

>>2666818
One bad thing about cotton, sometimes it dries thoroughly during the night and sometimes it doesn't. It sucks putting on a damp shirt in the morning.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Nov 2023 23:22:19 No.2667634 Report

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>>2667530
Another bad thing about cotton is nearly dying from hypothermia like the other anon who listened to bad advice and taught he knew better

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