Best Base Layers

[iceman]

Whatever you do, don't buy into the merino wool hype. Sucky, sucky, suck, suck. Slow drying, freezes your ass off when you stop, stinks, and still scratchy. I've tried Icebreaker, Smartwool, and Arcteryx; free samples, glad I didn't pay twice as much to find out how lame it is. Modern midweight synthetics are way better.

Wow, that's pretty much the exact opposite of what others have said. It'll be interesting to use the Icebreaker stuff I bought and see for myself. Obviously I hope you're wrong, but we'll see.

[Steven S. Dallas]

Pataguch silkweight is pretty nice. I'm a little partial because I used to work there and have truckloads of it, but it works for me. I'm pretty sweat-tastic, too.

FYI: Capilene stinks, but the white capilene (undyed) stinks least. Strange but definitely true.

Oh, and icemang isg funnyg.

[snoboy]

[QUOTE=Treepinner]Whatever you do, don't buy into the merino wool hype. Sucky, sucky, suck, suck. Slow drying, freezes your ass off when you stop, stinks, and still scratchy. I've tried Icebreaker, Smartwool, and Arcteryx; free samples, glad I didn't pay twice as much to find out how lame it is. Modern midweight synthetics are way better.[QUOTE]

Wow, that's pretty much the exact opposite of what others have said. It'll be interesting to use the Icebreaker stuff I bought and see for myself. Obviously I hope you're wrong, but we'll see.

Treepinner's experience is the exact opposite of mine. Some people are super sensitive to wool though, so that could explain part of it. And some people, well they just stink whatever they do. :

Hey, you wanna send your woolies my way?