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>Love how easily a fool brushes off an actual experts words.
Mirror mirror on the wall...
Evaporation of water is well researched, and, believe it or not, I'm kind of an expert on the matter, lol. Engineer dealing with evaporative cooling, to be precise, which gets less effective the colder it gets. And rapidly so.
>perhaps Les is talking about a different level of "cold" and "outdoors" than you?
Doubt it. Even if we ignore the whole "fundamental physics" part, I've been out in pretty much everything from +40°C (Okinawan summer while working a research job there) to around -25°C (night marches in German midwinter). Always sweated, never died. Sure, in the arctic, it gets even colder, but considering that even at -20, my sweat is already freezing solid on the outside of my pullover and stopping any further evaporation, and it actually gets WARMER from there (as the ice layer makes the fabric way more windproof and stops any further evaporation, I assume), there's no reason to assume colder temps would be any different.

Instead, I'd guess this is either another example of a poser spewing bullshit, or part of the whole "layer up and down all the time" meme outdoor clothing companies have been pushing.
Like, has that guy ever actually hiked? you go up a hill on the southside, and sweat even while topless (yes, even below freezing), then you go down the north side, and suddenly need the heaviest jackets you have. Even worse if you're wearing a ruck, cause then you'll literally sweat all the time underneath the straps.
And yet, somehow, it still doesn't kill you, no matter what /in/ says.

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What is the best wilderness/survival advice you've gotten /out/?