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Warm-Weather Layers

Sun shirts and lighter kit for the low routes.

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Columbia Silver Ridge Lite Long Sleeve Shirt — Long sleeves in the heat, which is the counter-intuitive right answer
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Long sleeves in the heat, which is the counter-intuitive right answer

Columbia Silver Ridge Lite Long Sleeve Shirt

UPF 40, vented back, roll-up sleeves

Covering up is cooler than sunscreen and a t-shirt on the exposed lower Annapurna approach; the fabric is loud and crinkly, and it will never feel like cotton.

Shade you carry with you

Back vents move air on a still climb

Dries in under an hour

Synthetic, so it smells by day three

Crinkly fabric

Fit is boxy

Not for you if: High-altitude cold. This is a monsoon, jungle and low-approach shirt.

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ExOfficio Give-N-Go Boxer Brief — Two pairs, washed nightly, for a whole trekBest underwear

Two pairs, washed nightly, for a whole trek

ExOfficio Give-N-Go Boxer Brief

Dries fast enough to wash one pair each evening and wear it the next day, which is the entire reason to spend this much on underwear; the mesh is hot in genuinely warm weather.

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