2025 Stone Glacier

[WeiserBucks]

The gaiters are shown

Early season small gaiters

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I see em now, not quite what I need.

 

[Oregonhuntrboi]

Initial thoughts…
X1- looks like a winner
Headwall- I get the concept but it seems like it will be too warm for active hunting unless people want to run it stand alone with a base layer only.
Praxis pant- I’m reallly interested in these. I’m curious to if the have enough flexibility to run into late season with other layering like the DH lites can.
Halo- I really like it but I dont have much use for it.

 

[LostWapiti]

Sun hoody is a big win. Most of the sun hoodies out there are from fishing brands and they must have collectively decided they must be only in bright pastel colors. Nothing suitable for hunting.

 

[Alpine4x4]

Sun hoody is a big win. Most of the sun hoodies out there are from fishing brands and they must have collectively decided they must be only in bright pastel colors. Nothing suitable for hunting.

Check out Kuius Gila line. I have spent hundreds of hours in sun hoodies bass fishing from all the major brands and I have been thoroughly impressed with the Gila. Enough so I bought some specifically to use fishing aside from my hunting ones.

I'm definitely picking up some of the SG to try as well.

 

[Oregonhuntrboi]

Check out Kuius Gila line. I have spent hundreds of hours in sun hoodies bass fishing from all the major brands and I have been thoroughly impressed with the Gila. Enough so I bought some specifically to use fishing aside from my hunting ones.

I'm definitely picking up some of the SG to try as well.

Super ignorant question but… where does a sun hoody fit into your layering system? I hunt coast range Oregon for blacktail, eastern Oregon early and late, and Idaho late season. I’ve never worn a sun hoody so I genuinely wouldn’t know where to fit it into a system.

 

[LostWapiti]

Super ignorant question but… where does a sun hoody fit into your layering system? I hunt coast range Oregon for blacktail, eastern Oregon early and late, and Idaho late season. I’ve never worn a sun hoody so I genuinely wouldn’t know where to fit it into a system.

The desert. Anywhere it’s hot and sunny. Usually it’s not part of a system but it IS the system. Especially easy to get sunburned when glassing for mule deer all day at 10,000 feet on Labor Day weekend.

 

[Alpine4x4]

Super ignorant question but… where does a sun hoody fit into your layering system? I hunt coast range Oregon for blacktail, eastern Oregon early and late, and Idaho late season. I’ve never worn a sun hoody so I genuinely wouldn’t know where to fit it into a system.

I hunt Eastern Washington Mule Deer Archery (I live here). Our first season is September so I'm hunting in 80*+ weather by noon most times. Its my base layer and a lot of times my only layer in this early season. Sleeves take a bit of that chill off in the morning, but they breathe well so they keep you cool when the suns out. Anytime you think you would wear a t-shirt is when I wear the sun hoody.

Early bear in August as well as Grouse season is another use.

 

[Weedwacker]

The desert. Anywhere it’s hot and sunny. Usually it’s not part of a system but it IS the system. Especially easy to get sunburned when glassing for mule deer all day at 10,000 feet on Labor Day weekend.

Facts

 

[sr80]

Super ignorant question but… where does a sun hoody fit into your layering system? I hunt coast range Oregon for blacktail, eastern Oregon early and late, and Idaho late season. I’ve never worn a sun hoody so I genuinely wouldn’t know where to fit it into a system.

they make a great base layer.

 

[MT_Wyatt]

I ordered a headwall to test. After trying one on, seems like a good bowhunting outer layer, but as much as I use the sitka ambient stuff as mid-layers, I think it would have to be pretty cold to be using that but we will see. I use the M7 a lot of a windproof softer (quieter) outer layer when things are wet or nasty, or super late season. Weight is pretty significant for the headwall, but it is a wpb laminate with soft face and fleece liner, not just a softshell, albiet untaped.

I noticed the X1 tags had "hydrasheild" laminate but they advertise using the Pertex Sheild 3L fabric, which is what I think it really is (https://pertex.com/fabrics-technologies/shield). 9.1oz for a L is pretty wild, for as soft/small as that piece seemed to be able to get when I held it.