{"id":608,"date":"2009-11-07T20:42:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T00:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getthenack.wordpress.com\/?p=608"},"modified":"2009-12-05T22:18:22","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T03:18:22","slug":"what-to-wear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"What to Wear?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that whenever\u00a0paddlers head out on the water the most frequent\u00a0topic of conversation is the seemingly age-old\u00a0question of \u00a0&#8220;what to wear&#8221;.\u00a0 Of course the first consideration is to dress for possible immersion, but when it gets cold will it be a wet suit, dry suit or something else.\u00a0 For todays Paddle Out Hunger event (see post below) we had 38 degree air temperature, water temp of about 50, moderate wind and bright sun. I chose to use\u00a0the, new for 2009,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kokatat.com\/product_detail.asp?code=ttp\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kokatat\u00a0Tempest Tropos Dry Pants<\/strong><\/a> and OS Systems Dry Top with light weight polypropylene underneath.\u00a0These pants have built-in dry socks just like a drysuit. \u00a0Plenty warm enough without overheating or the restrictive environment of my full dry suit. \u00a0The Kokatat pants are light and breathable\u00a0offering a good, dry, warmer weather solution.\u00a0 With sufficient layering and the right top\u00a0they make a\u00a0great\u00a0combo for three season\u00a0paddling attire.\u00a0No wonder why Jerry at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captainkayak.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Captain Kayak<\/strong><\/a> says they&#8217;re flying off the shelves.<\/p>\n<p>Steve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that whenever\u00a0paddlers head out on the water the most frequent\u00a0topic of conversation is the seemingly age-old\u00a0question of \u00a0&#8220;what to wear&#8221;.\u00a0 Of course the first consideration is to dress for possible immersion, but when it gets cold will it be a wet suit, dry suit or something else.\u00a0 For todays Paddle Out Hunger event [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paddling-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}