Hiking with kilts?
Personal experience, recomendations, specific brands.
Made it down the coast in seventeen hours/ Pickin' me a bouquet of dogwood flowers
Would anybody with experience recomend this? http://www.sportkilt.com/category/52/Hiking-Kilt.html
It looks good. 11.7 ounces, too.
Made it down the coast in seventeen hours/ Pickin' me a bouquet of dogwood flowers
no experience with sportkilt (though I should have the hiking kilt next week shipping notice yesterday yay!!!)
But I found the MH Elkommando kilt really comfortable down to 35*F while hiking. I wanted something that looked more like a kilt so I went with sportkilt based on some recommendations.
BTW... you will get "looks" from some on the trail. More confused looks than anything else.
I like the weight of the sportkilt, but I don't want to look like braveheart. Is there a kilt that weights as little and costs as little as the sportkilt, but looks more like kahki?
Made it down the coast in seventeen hours/ Pickin' me a bouquet of dogwood flowers
What does the Elkommando weight? I like that the sportkilt weighs only 12oz, but I like the specs of the Elkommando kilt. If it weighs under 1.5lbs I'll be fine.Originally Posted by Raul Perez
Made it down the coast in seventeen hours/ Pickin' me a bouquet of dogwood flowers
I have a Mountain Hardware kilt in size medium. It weighs more than a pair of pants, that's for sure.
Kilts are not good if there are mosquitoes. They are not good if there is a lot of poison oak or scratchy brush or if you are going to fall down often.
The Mountain Hardware kilt is sort of water resistant so you can walk through creeks and it won't get wet.
I saw a guy wearing a sport kilt recently and I was impressed. It looked really nice and seemed light, but I kind of wondered if the fabric gets a lot of static cling. I didn't ask him. I seem to attract static cling and it bothers me a lot.
I think guys look really good in kilts. Maybe the looks are admiration. I've heard it suggested a kilt looks bad without a sporran, so you might want to get one of those, too.
Some knew me as Piper, others as just Diane.
I hiked the PCT: Mexico to Mt. Shasta, 2008. Santa Barbara to Canada, 2009.
I didn't know that hikers cared how they looked! That's one aspect of hiking that appeals to me - everything I wear or carry is justified on function and not style/appearance, etc.
I don't understand the interest in men wearing kilts but sure do like women wearing them!
Enough is OK, too much is just right.
What is a "sporran"?.....or maybe I don't want to know.
Enough is OK, too much is just right.
Whatever you get make sure you wear something under it!
I don't have the legs for it...
The Sporran (Scottish Gaelic for "purse") is a traditional part of male Scottish Highland dress. It is a pouch that performs the same function as pockets on the pocketless Scottish kilt.
Made of leather or fur, the ornamentation of the sporran is determined by the formality of dress worn with it. The sporran is worn on a leather strap or chain, conventionally positioned in front of the groin of the wearer.
Since the traditional kilt does not have pockets, the sporran serves as a wallet and container for any other necessary personal items. It is essentially a survival of the common European medieval belt-pouch, superseded elsewhere as clothing came to have pockets, but continuing in the Scottish Highlands because of the lack of these accessories in traditional dress.
<Thanks, wikipedia!>
If you do that, its no longer a kilt, its just a skirtWhatever you get make sure you wear something under it!
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Me no care, me here free beer. Tap keg, please?
I have a MH Elkommando kilt. Very comfortable, but I have yet to wear it while hiking or backpacking. I want to try it while hiking but have not had the opportunity yet.
Here is another recent post from which you may get some more information. I reread it also for my benefit.
http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?t=71770
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny..." Isaac Asimov
Veni, Vidi, Velcro. I came, I saw, I stuck around.
I do like the look of the Elkommando. I think of that as "Boy Scout green." On the other hand, the idea of a tartan is very appealing (Sportkilt). I don't like the blue or the red, as I prefer more earth tones for hiking. The Stewart is better, but I would not be caught dead in a Stewart tartan! Being descended from the Douglas clan, this is more my style:
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny..." Isaac Asimov
Veni, Vidi, Velcro. I came, I saw, I stuck around.
Many of these kilts have a little snap to keep things together in a breeze so that you can maintain your modesty. The one on the Elkommando doesn't seem to work right for me, but I am a lady trying to wear a man's garment, so maybe it works better for men. It just doesn't provide me enough room for my legs when the snap is fastened, so I end up with the kilt all bunched up on me.
Some knew me as Piper, others as just Diane.
I hiked the PCT: Mexico to Mt. Shasta, 2008. Santa Barbara to Canada, 2009.
I wore my MH mountain kilt a few weeks ago when the temp was 95, and it was wonderful.
Con men understand that their job is not to use facts to convince skeptics but to use words to help the gullible to believe what they want to believe - Thomas Sowell
I hiked 54 miles two weeks ago from Trout Creek to VA 42 a bit South of Sarver Hollow.
Weather was in the 70's during the day and 50s in evening. That being said, I have no intention of ever hiking again in anything other than a kilt again; it was great!
I have a Kommandokilt, I did go commando ( I exericised appropriate kilt etiquette but that was far from a concern of mine) and I didn't chafe. This kilt could use a few more pockets but other than that I loved it.
Insects were not an issue on that hike so I can't offer any comment on that.
Not very many comments or strange looks from hikers or even the throngs of college students we saw trekking up to McAfee knob. (must be a huge party destination)
I hike in a kilt. Tried marathon running shorts briefly because I was worried about being able to hitch etc. on the CDT, quickly switched back to the kilt
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