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As you will be outdoors every day it is important to have the right
clothing and footwear with you. If you do not own anything
suitable you are most welcome to borrow the right equipment
from us. You are also welcome to borrow a warm and comfortable
sleeping bag.
The Silent Way uses only the best equipment available
and provides our clients with the warmest, most durable
and technically adapted clothing for winter in the mountains.
We provide our clients with most of the “outer
layers” of clothing; you need to bring the “inner
layers”. If you have your own equipment or outer
clothing that you would like to use, please bring it
along and we will evaluate together which items are
more appropriate to use.
- Developing a winter clothing system
Your clothing must work as a system that wicks away perspiration,
insulates you from the cold and protects you from the wind. The
preferred system is made up of several layers. This allows you
to easily adjust your clothing to changes in the weather and changes
in your heat output.
- The First layer
Clothing next to your skin must wick perspiration
away from your skin to keep you dry and warm. Capilene
or wool is excellent. Polypropylene is good. Cotton
is inappropriate as it is poor wicking layers.
- The Second layer (or layers)
This layer provides insulation and retain your body
heat without restricting movement. Pile, polar fleece,
wool and synchilla are great.
- The Third layer
This must offer protection from the wind. The more
wind proof is often the less breathable. Goretex is
a good choice.
- The Fourth layer
This offers extra insulation. A down filled parka or thinsulate
over-pants are good examples.
'The Silent Way' can provide the following:
- A warm jacket with a generous hood and fur ruff
insulated bib over-pants with full side zippers
- Warm boots (with double liners warm to -50 C), gloves, head
gear
  
- Sleeping bag system, with fresh cotton/fleece liner
- Headlamp and batteries
- With much of our recommendations we offer two choices of materials
- wool or synthetics such as polypropylene. Both have their advantages.
Synthetics are lightweight, wick moisture away from the skin efficiently
and dry out fast. But when wet we feel that synthetics lose much
of their insulating ability. Wool is heavier and will hold moisture
longer but maintains most of its insulating ability even when
wet. Maybe we are old-fashioned but we like at least one layer
of wool over every part of our bodies.
You need to bring:
- Towels
- Duffel bag to store your clothing in for transportation,
maximum 60 litres
- 1 warm windproof hat that covers your ears well
- 2 pr. light weight fleece gloves
- 2 pr. light weight liner socks of wool
- 2 pr. warm wool socks sized to fit over the liner
socks
- 2 pr. top and bottom long underwear (capilene, polypropylene,
wool or silk)
- 1 midweight fleece top or light weight wool sweater
(100 weight fleece)
- 1 pr. pile or fleece or wool pants (200 weight fleece
or pile)
- 1 warm pile or fleece jacket (200 or 300 weight
fleece or pile) or wool sweater
- 1 windproof jacket (with a generous hood and sized
large enough to fit the midweight top and pile jacket)
- 1 pr. windproof pants (sized large enough to fit
over your pile pants) undergarments toiletries (lip
balm is good to bring) .
- Camera and film (we suggest you have a case or pouch
of some kind to carry your camera in)
- Sunglasses that block out most ultraviolet rays
and sunscreen.
- Tip: tie small pieces of ribbon or nylon cord through
the eye of each zipper pull on all zipper heads to
enable you to operate zippers with mitts on.
- Comfortable, warm cloths for the evenings
- In-lodge Footwear - something to get you out of
your boots (mukluks with insulation, lightweight insulated
boots, even tennis shoes)
- Spare hats - a wool stocking cap makes a good spare;
a lightweight hat or headband is often useful.
If you have any questions or concerns about any items on this list
please do not hesitate to contact us. There will not be any opportunity
to purchase more items ones you are in Umnäs. Please
us if you have questions
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