What kind of equipment do you need for mountaineering in winter?

In winter, the weather is cold. Many middle-aged and elderly friends attach great importance to health preservation, especially many mountaineering enthusiasts who like to go mountaineering in winter. This not only exercises the body, but also exercises their bodies. However, mountaineering in winter is good, but you must pay attention to cold prevention and warmth keeping, and you must be fully prepared. So what are the equipment for mountaineering in winter?

Using and carrying appropriate mountaineering equipment and developing good habits will effectively avoid hypothermia:

1. Three-layer dressing principle: When climbing in winter, as long as you pay attention to the coordination of different clothes, you can keep warm well. Each type of clothing can provide different functions. Therefore, layered dressing can combine the characteristics of different clothes, allowing the body to remain in good condition during exercise and achieve the functions of perspiration, warmth and windproof.

In extremely cold weather, in addition to keeping warm and windproof, clothes with a perspiration-wicking and quick-drying inner layer to keep the skin dry are also essential, so choosing the right equipment is very important.

In fact, when doing outdoor sports, dressing in layers can bring you the best results. The layered dressing method can be mainly divided into three layers: the bottom layer of clothing is the closest clothing, the middle layer of warm clothing, and the outer layer of windproof clothing.

Base layer: The first layer is the base layer, which is the bottom layer and closest to the body. This layer is especially important in cold weather. Dressing in cold weather is especially important in layers, as each layer serves a different purpose and coordinates with each other to achieve the desired effect.

The main function of the bottom layer is to expel human sweat from the body in the shortest possible time and keep the skin dry. Because sweat will quickly take away body temperature and may freeze into ice in cold weather, making the sweat leave the skin surface as quickly as possible is an inevitable step to keep warm.

Mid-layer warm clothing: The second layer is mid-layer warm clothing. Fleece is a man-made fiber, which is soft and warm, and feels more comfortable than other warm clothing.

Since outdoor equipment should be made of multiple layers of warm and thin clothing, it would be more appropriate to use clothing as the thermal layer rather than large down jackets. In addition, down jackets are also very effective thermal insulation layers. Down jackets emphasize maintaining body temperature. The advantage of down is that it is light and has excellent warmth retention effect.

Down jackets have different filling densities, the higher the filling density, the warmer it is. Its warmth retention performance is particularly suitable for activities in severe cold weather and ice and snow.

Outer layer: The third layer is the outer layer, which has the function of windproof and waterproof. Since this layer is in direct contact with the external environment, the design of the clothing equipment is also very meticulous, such as: flexible hood, inner pocket for water cup, etc., and the use of carefully selected high-performance fabrics.

When it comes to mountaineering equipment in winter, we have to pay attention to several principles. First of all, the clothes we wear must be three-layer clothes. It is best to choose a jacket with good warmth retention effect, which can play a very strong role in keeping out the cold when climbing. And it should be noted that you cannot move casually when climbing, and you must distinguish your personal physique to avoid catching a cold in the high-intensity cold air flow.