Silk Re: Ultralight synthetic base layer

Silk is great and feels good.  It layers well and easily.  I usually 
spend Christmas each year in a village with no central heating.  So, 
I'll wear as many as three layers of silk turtlenecks before layering on 
2-3 sweaters and a coat.  Another advantage of silk is that it doesn't 
stink up.  Even in town, I'll often wear the same silk skin-layer for a week

Many of the synthetics just don't feel as good.  To me, they also feel 
hotter when the weather is warm and colder (and clammy) when the weather 
is cool.

The biggest problem with silk is that it is fragile: it loses its 
strength when wet.  Basically, it rots when wet.  So, all the silk I use 
for hiking very quickly goes out in the arm pits and crotch.  The next 
place it goes out is elbows and knees - from abrasions. 

CL
who wears things a loooooonnnnnng time before even thinking they might 
be too worn for hiking wear.

Segraves wrote:
> I'm doing some VBL testing and am thinking about what base layer would 
> work best under it. Will be trying silk,
>