Make clothes for Backpacking

Making clothes? If you like hiking and sewing, go for it. As for me, I started buying gear again after the first hundred tedious hours of sewing. Then I discovered that there are some backpacking clothes you can make cheaply and quickly.

Making Hand Warmers

Stick your hands into a pair of socks And the mark where the tips of your fingers and thumb are standard, using a pen or marker. Then copy holes where the marks are. You now have the hot hand that allow fingers free. Mine weigh about an ounce, but it depends on the socks that you use. You can use these under other gloves or mittens in colder climates, and when you remove your mittens to tie your shoes, you will not totally expose your hands.

Instant Insulated Vest

Buy 1 / 2 "poly stick to any fabric store. I bought mine at Walmart. Such is the substance that is used to make pillows, comforters and stuffed animals. It comes as a big sheet, rolled in a bag, usually for less than ten dollars.

Open it up and cut a piece about two feet by four. Drill a hole in the head for it and wear it as a tunic, but under your jacket. Making clothes is no longer that simple, and the vest will be among the lightest hiking clothes you have. My own weighs only four ounces.

My jacket, hood with my house, kept me warm as I went on the glaciers at the head of 20,600 foot Chimborazo in Ecuador. He also went to the summit of Mount Shasta, California, and on other routes. Originally, as I have done a disposable vest, but is bound together for several years now. Wear two extra warmth (always under a gust of wind layer), and you'll have more insulation would give you a sweater, for half the weight.

Making A Ski Mask From Old Clothes

Use any old thermal underwear top or bottom, preferably made of polypropylene. Simply cut a leg or a sleeve, then pull it over your head. Mark where your eyes and mouth with a pen or marker, cut the holes and cut the excess length. You just made a balaclava.

I used a sleeve of a very stretchy polypropylene top for mine. It weighs less than an ounce, lighter than anything I can buy. You can sew the top closed, as I did, or just: we must cut it with a safety pin. Hiking clothes does not get much simpler than.

I collect ideas for hiking clothes or equipment that can be done at home, but if it can not be explained in one paragraph, it is probably too complex and time consuming for me. I prefer hiking in the seam. When it is as easy as the three points here, but even I will start making clothes.






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