The Rover-Landers of BC

I remember talking to someone at the NWC about some thermal gear you canadians have all over the place up there, but its not real common down here in the states. It was made of some weird stuff. Any ideas? I dont know if its good or bad that I'm actually asking for long johns for Xmas. I must be getting old.

Polypropylene? maybe. I would be a little surprised if it wasn't widely available in the US......course on the other hand if someone from Cali got rash after wearing it no doubt it has been banned :D

Most stores like Marks Work Warehouse will carry the goods. http://www.marks.com among many others.

Canadian you say?

Special winter underwear? (aka Thermal gear)

You can only mean STANFIELDS!

More Canadian than the maple leaf.

Hard to get the pure wool stuff these days, usually 80% wool and 20% nylon these days but they have many other types now too.

Bob Stanfield was even one of our top politicians years ago. Ran for Prime Minister (top dude, like your President) but was an also ran and lead the official opposition instead.

Folks,

It is expensive and the website might look a bit weird but I cannot recommend Icebreaker (http://www.icebreaker.com/site/performa ... fibre.html) pure wool products enough. Just the thing to keep the cold out when your daily driver is a 300 tdi and Calgary is below -30 C (http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/ ... story.html).

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4085/520 ... b41652.jpg

Of course, it does help to fit a Webasto Thermtop as well.

Anybody else experience what seems like frozen hubs that take a free minutes to warm up? It seems I have quite a bit of rolling resistance for the first few hundred metres at these temps.

Keep warm!
Ben

well working for the ski team I have had all the gear to try. polypro is good but smells like a gym after some use.I go for the wool the old stanfeild grey wool from marks ,45$ the gear I pick up in new zeland is the best but priciy merino wool is the key.hunting last week in -20 wool was warm.don,t foget to layer.

The "Paradox technical underlayer" stuff from Costco is actually pretty good too. Comfy, wears well, pretty cheap.

Here in the mountains it is daily wear from about October to April.

Ray

Helly Hansen Polly Pro.....

thanks for the feedback guys. I think Stanfields was the name I recall.