If you can send back the jacket and get your money I’d seriously consider doing that.
Lookup any serious mountaineering guide and you’ll see one thing regarding clothing:
LAYERING
Layering, layering, layering. Be it in the city or at 8000 meters high, layering seems like the most reasonable way to protect yourself.
After all, temperature variations of 5-10 degrees during a day and depending on if you’re traveling or not they can carry by 20-110 degrees throughout the year, so what are you going to do? Have a special wardrobe for all temperatures? **** No
Merino leggings, some normal pants, potentially some fluffy pants (overkill usually, ankle socks are enough), and skying/boating pants (by which I mean, **** that is made to keep you warm in 100+km/h wet wind)
In my experience, you can get the equipment needed for 4k in the alps for < 300$ (granted, this summer had great sales), it pains me to see people spend 1000$ on a city jacket.
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Also, the places where you “feel” cold are your face, hands, and feet. By the time your abdomen feels uncomfortably cold you’ve made a mistake and need to get the fuck to safety as soon as possible because permanent damage is setting in (unless you got your chest wet or something).
But you’ll feel horrible pain from your hands and feet and face a dozen hours or even days before your “core” body temperature starts dropping enough for you to feel it. Granted, keeping the core warm will allow it to keep normal blood circulation in the hands/feet/face (thus warming them up)… but it’s a secondary effect and you’re walking a tight line between warm and sweating.
If you’re uncomfortable with the cold, I’d bet at 5⁄1 odds that you’ll feel better with:
1.
Very very thick woolen socks, maybe 2 pairs, and some warm boots
Thick gloves
A mask (the kind bad guys wear in movies) over your face, and a hat, and a scarf, and some glasses (or some other more reasonable face-protection)
Even if your core is exposed (e.g. just a light jacket and some leggings under your pants).
Anecdotally, I was comfortable walking around in no-wind winter NYC (so, in the 40s) in normal clothes & a coat + scarf, but felt super cold if I left off the scarf.
For temps in the low 60s, I didn’t even need the coat, just a scarf with my t-shirt + long pants + sandals. Conversely, Jacket over the same is insufficient.
If you can send back the jacket and get your money I’d seriously consider doing that.
Lookup any serious mountaineering guide and you’ll see one thing regarding clothing:
LAYERING
Layering, layering, layering. Be it in the city or at 8000 meters high, layering seems like the most reasonable way to protect yourself.
After all, temperature variations of 5-10 degrees during a day and depending on if you’re traveling or not they can carry by 20-110 degrees throughout the year, so what are you going to do? Have a special wardrobe for all temperatures? **** No
Skin-tight shirt, normal shirt, Merino sweater, fluffy warm jacket, sky/boating coat.
Merino leggings, some normal pants, potentially some fluffy pants (overkill usually, ankle socks are enough), and skying/boating pants (by which I mean, **** that is made to keep you warm in 100+km/h wet wind)
In my experience, you can get the equipment needed for 4k in the alps for < 300$ (granted, this summer had great sales), it pains me to see people spend 1000$ on a city jacket.
***
Also, the places where you “feel” cold are your face, hands, and feet. By the time your abdomen feels uncomfortably cold you’ve made a mistake and need to get the fuck to safety as soon as possible because permanent damage is setting in (unless you got your chest wet or something).
But you’ll feel horrible pain from your hands and feet and face a dozen hours or even days before your “core” body temperature starts dropping enough for you to feel it. Granted, keeping the core warm will allow it to keep normal blood circulation in the hands/feet/face (thus warming them up)… but it’s a secondary effect and you’re walking a tight line between warm and sweating.
If you’re uncomfortable with the cold, I’d bet at 5⁄1 odds that you’ll feel better with:
1.
Very very thick woolen socks, maybe 2 pairs, and some warm boots
Thick gloves
A mask (the kind bad guys wear in movies) over your face, and a hat, and a scarf, and some glasses (or some other more reasonable face-protection)
Even if your core is exposed (e.g. just a light jacket and some leggings under your pants).
Than with
2.
A very thick jacket but more exposed peripheries.
Anecdotally, I was comfortable walking around in no-wind winter NYC (so, in the 40s) in normal clothes & a coat + scarf, but felt super cold if I left off the scarf.
For temps in the low 60s, I didn’t even need the coat, just a scarf with my t-shirt + long pants + sandals. Conversely, Jacket over the same is insufficient.