whats your favorite hat??

RescueRiley

RescueRiley

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A little off topic I know, I don't know if its just me but I always wear a hat when I'm heading out into the woods lately I've been wearing a full brimmed wool bucket style hat that the MRS got me for christmas I'm liking it alot usually in the warmer months I'll wear a boonie style hat of some kind...just wondering what you all are toppin your dome with out in the thick of it...feel free to post pics...
 
In the winter months, I typically wear a wool watch cap, though I'm looking at fleece hiking caps that have a face cover that folds inside the cap.

In the warmer months, a boonie hat is always nice, but I'm trying to find a replica HBT cap like soldiers were issued in WWII.
 
Winter- a wool navy issue watch cap or my Alpacca wool watch cap that folds down into a balaclava. The Alpacca is only for well below sub freezing weather, otherwise it's too warm.

Summer- an old khaky cotton bucket hat. Lightweight, cool, and I can wet it when out in the kayaks or canoe.
 
I seem to wear a Helly Hansen Lifa beanie all the time,takes up as much room as a paper tissue in your pocket but offers a suprising amount of warmth,and after a soaking dries within minutes !!!
If it is really and I mean really cold I wear a Lowe Alpine Mountain hat !!!!
 
I find a head full of thick, 15 inch long hair does the job for me. Works even better if I don't wash it for a while and let the grease build up. :P
 
I wear a fleece hat in the winter, or if it's real cold and I'm not moving, I have a blaze orange fur hat.

Summer I just wear a good old baseball cap.
 
Baseball cap around bush. Australian type hat, cream coloured to reflect sun on open prarrie. A plain blaze orange insulated knit cap in the fall (dont want to get shot, and besides its the law if in the bush here during hunting season) and a black polar fleace pull over in the winter, this covers most of my face and all my neck. In colder weather I will almost always have a hoody sweat shirt as part of my clothes layering. This adds additional head warmth if needed, and believe me, I was glad that I had it many a time. Also...do not wear a hat with a bill like a baseball cap in cold weather. The bill will act like a funnel for even the slightest breeze to channel to your forhead, face and freeze you. I do not view a hat as a trivial garment. We lose a significant portion of heat through this part of our body, regulating it is easy to do and vitaly important in extreme weather.
 
A Tilley T-5 for me 90% of the time. A fleece beanie under my hood in cold weather. I use a thin polyester "skull cap" for cold weather sleeping.
 
Winter time I have a stocking cap wiith windstopper lining, too warm for snowshoeing but what what hat isn't?

Last summer I picked up a leather bucket type hat for the warmer months and love it, sheds water and is full brimmed, the best fishing hat ever.
 
I wear a baseball cap, Cowboy hat(leather) when its raining or the suns comin down hard. For cold I wear a cotton beanie.
 
Ditto on the Tilley. What I love about it: (1) large grommetted vent-holes that access the airspace around the crown (and there IS an airspace, because the top is cylindrical, rather than rounded) lets enough air in and out that it doesn't keep you too hot in the summer--which often results in the hat not getting worn where it's 115 degrees in the shade; (2) strong attachment system; (3) good looks, and versatility of brim that snaps up on either side, both sides, or none, depending on mood; (4) wide variety of sizes means they make some that actually fit my (large) head.

The one thing I don't like about it is price (usually around $50 U.S., no?) I have since seen a few that are a lot like the Tilley, essentially the same design, for a lot less in various places--Target's carried a few, as has Sportsman's Warehouse; however, I'm now having trouble locating one of these less-expensive versions. What I'm looking for, in particular, is something a lot like the Tilley, but somewhat darker than the off-white one that I have. I've noticed the light color is a bit flashy in the woods, and I don't want to scare the whitetails TOO badly. Ideas?
 
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