Headwear
The Head is often overlooked when putting together your equipment for a trip in the beautiful mountains. Never forget to bring an appropriate headwear... low temperaturs: Our head is heavily supplied with blood and poorly insulated. When you have sweat a lot, wet hair won't help with insulating and our body loses a lot of warmth. Even with good insulated clothing on the rest of our body we can't compensate this loss. A very important fact: you never freeze on your head, so you won't even notice that you lose so much warmth over your head (and warmth means energy). Wearing a cap in your sleeping bag also reduces the heat loss of your body. Caps/hats for cold weather: You can use all sorts of fleece or wool caps you like. They should cover your ears and be thick enough to be windproof. Examples Merino Wool watch cap: I have two of these and I like them very much, comfortable to wear, very warm... a normal wool cap, but it's made from merino wool.