I remember skiing as a kid and always being freezing cold. Of course, as a kid, it would have been ridiculous for my parents to have spent a crazy amount of money on ski clothes that I would outgrow in one season. But in college, I kind of went crazy. I skied up to 30 + days a year. I went through a lot of gear. I found out that being too hot is just as miserable as being too cold.
In my early twenties I worked in Colorado for a summer. I learned from locals that the secret staying warm / cool / dry in the mountains is to layer your clothing. And to stay away from cotton as cotton doesn’t keep you warm when it gets wet. So now when I ski (or flyfish) I layer clothing so its easy to add layers or take them away while on the mountain. Below are my favorite ski clothing items from Northface.com. My base layers are Marmot and Patagonia right now.
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