How to Protect our skin with cold Part-1

How to Protect our skin with cold Part-1

In this blog i'm going to show you how

to choose

face covering and face protection when

you're out in extremely cold and windy

conditions

that way you can stay warm prevent

frostbite and keep yourself from getting

injured

i've got several different combinations

in this video that i'm going to show you

that i've used in all sorts of different

areas full disclosure

i'm not sponsored by any of these

companies i bought these products all

within my own money

so you can get a better sense that this

is completely honest in what i've done

also before i go on in my book adventure

expedition 1

antarctic tears or books and lost in

winnie corner i talk about

all these different products and how to

choose them

especially in adventure expedition one

and why you may or may not want them the

first

and maybe not so obvious is actually my

sun brim hat

this is from columbia but i've actually

used this

hat as face protection because

i can actually pull this down and with

my jacket on i can actually

cover up part of my face and by creating

this

hood action with this hat it actually

works incredibly well now it looks a

little bit dorky

but when i tie this down with

this little band here and i get it down

and kind of mess with it

it actually does a really good job

because the goal here is

to protect my face and by creating a

little bit of a tunnel

that prevents wind from coming in and

burning my face the second option

of facial protection is actually a

headband this is a very old

rei windproof fleece headband i've used

this

and had this for about 25 years and this

actually does very well now you might

say hey that's not protecting your face

hang on but what happens in here is

this headband combined with my

windproof fleece hat

that i have that was also an old eddie

or eddie bar an

rei product is what i do is i put my

windproof fleece hat here and then i put

my headband just like this

and now i've got great protection

because my jacket

when i zip my jacket up i can actually

hide my face just like this and i'll

tell you what mountain i use this whole

system on in a minute

but i can actually do very well and have

a very versatile setup

so if i'm too hot i can just pull that

down

or all my nose and cheeks are getting a

little burn i can pull this back up or

if it's getting really bad

i can actually spin this around so it's

a lot thicker

and this gives me a lot of versatility

that a regular ball of cobra does not

give

because i can still keep my neck open

and keep myself

cool so even though it looks a little

bit dorky like a ninja who couldn't

afford the ninja mask

this actually works incredibly well it's

just this

windproof fleece headband combined

with a windproof fleece hat there's an

excellent option i've used this in

greenland denali antarctica yellowstone

in the winter in the arctic

everywhere kilimanjaro this combination

has served me

super well now the next option that you

can look at

is using a buff this is a very popular

item

with a lot of people i have several

different versions

i've got the official buff brand buff

here

i'll put links below to all these items

but a buff

does incredibly well because it's highly

versatile

you can put it up so it just protects

your mouth

and nose just like this or if you're

having trouble breathing what i've done

is you actually take your buff and put

it like this and you make a little bit

of a

let's say an old lady hood if you will

but i don't want to

see older women you wear but by creating

this i actually

do a little bit of a wind cut effect now

the problem is

it tends to choke me out so i don't use

this option as much

but what i can do is just kind of pull

this up on my chin

and this works incredibly well and if

it's really bad i can just pull this

forward

and it does super well now if i'm

getting driving wind this is going to

flap and kind of drive me nuts

but it actually works quite well

now the next step up on that would be

either the super buff by

smart wool here this thing is

crazy thick it's double buff and i can

do the same thing here

it's got twice a layer it's wool so it

does incredibly well

and it's actually easier to breathe

than the standard buff now if the

weather is really bad i can use this as

my breathable buff

and then put the other buff on top of my

head

and just make a little porthole so i can

see where i'm going

and do quite well here now if i need to

step

up from that the next option is the

polar extreme cold buff this thing what

it has

is it has a thicker fleece bottom

and then the classic ultra thin buff

material up top

so i can actually put this on

i can't choke myself out on it because

it's so big

and put this up and you can see

that i can completely protect my neck

now like a balaclava

and that gives me a lot of versatility

and warmth and if it's really cold

i can pull this guy up and with a little

bit of fiddling

do incredibly well pull this down and

again

protect my head but again this maneuver

kind of chokes me out so

i don't use that often but i've used

this particular buff on kilimanjaro i

piled this on

and it's worked pretty well again at the

end of this video i'll show you my

complete kilimanjaro face protection rig

for when the wind was blowing and it was

quite miserable

the next step up is see if we can find

it here

is a standard fleece balaclava

a standard fleece balaclava i don't even

know if this has a brand name on it but

whatever the case is

it's worked incredibly well and what a

ball of cloth is

is you put this hood on and

it has a built-in neck so instead of

just like a regular headband or hat

it protects your neck and keeps you

incredibly warm

and they usually have little draw cords

that you can draw down

but i can open this amp up to protect my

face

but you can see here i can still breathe

because with the regular buff when it's

pressed against your face it's really

hard to breathe

and when you're in a high mountain not

being able to breathe is irritating

so this polar fleece type buff is

incredibly good the next step

up is this outdoor research hood

it's a completely different fabric it is

not fleece

and it has a tearaway face

here that i'll show you so you can

actually wear it open you look like one

of those old school medieval guys

and then it has a neck protector that

you can

sweep around i don't know i'm not making

it look super sexy here

and then if it's really bad you can peel

this around

and kind of build up your system with

this outdoor

room search balaclava now

a little bit awkward and everything the

velcro yeah

it's not uh not totally awesome but it

is highly versatile which if you have to

go with one piece

is super good so this actually works

incredibly well

it doesn't cover the neck as much as my

standard fleece

balaclava but it does a good job

now my ultimate answer for what

extreme conditions i've been in and

again check it out

in my book adventure expedition 1

and antarctic tears wait

for it is the cold avenger the cold

avenger

is my final best answer for extreme cold

conditions because this thing

has a high performance fleece

with a removable i haven't removed this

in

two years so hopefully it doesn't tear

but a removable complete mask

so you can use this as a standard