Pacific Northwest rain

[snowplow]

Going to try out the kuiu yukon rain gear set this year. Ive never had too much luck with rain gear so l just avoided it in the past. Im in western wa where it has been known to rain.

For you guys in areas like me that run raingear do you find you wear top and bottoms or just top and fast drying bottoms that dont hold much water?

Also do you keep your gaiters on your pants under your raingear?

Heres what l got:

Nylon OR Voodoo pants
The new Kuiu Talus pants
Yukon gaiters
Yukon rain set

Heading to elk hunt in a week. The rain gear and talus pants are new and never ran in the rain yet. Im trying to figure out my best guess for a system to bring.

What would u guys do?


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[AK Troutbum]

The last two seasons I’ve been pretty much just wearing my Kuiu rain pants, as everyday pants with Kuiu gators overtop. I only wear a rain jacket if it’s raining, otherwise it’s with me in my pack at all times.


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[BroodBuster]

Well lucky for you it's our dry season now so you'll be fine until the first storm hits sometime in mid Oct to mid Nov. But oh boy once the jet stream moves back south it will be one storm after another.

Yes on the gaiters all season. Even when in drought the dew will be enough to soak your lower pants and shoes so I pretty much wear them year round even with shorts.

I wear the Sitka stormfront pants and cloudburst jacket. I believe I have the Yukon gaiters. If their jacket/pants are the same matl you should be good. And like AK I too will wear the pants everyday (once drought season ends) and only pull out the jacket if raining. The brush is always wet and the rainpants are nice when posted up on a frozen stump.

I got tired of backpacking with the heavy raingear so last year I bought a set of the lightweight packable KUIU and even though they are always in my pack I've yet to have to pull them out during a hunt.

In short you'll be fine with your current set up just as long as your layering system is decent.

 

[colersu22]

I agree with brood buster that your set up will be fine. I use the first lite seak jacket and if it’s not a down pour I just have the kanabs with gaiters but depending on the forecast I’ll bring the storm tight pants. I use gaiter a lot now since it is mainly the dew and long underbrush that gets my pants wet.

 

[JP100]

I dont wear gaiters much, unless I am in snow.

I use my rain pants ALOT, almost daily for wet brush ect.

I think you need a heavier duty pant than you do jacket, the Kuiu Chugach has done me pretty well, but I have been careful with it. Its not a very tough layer. I have yet to find my ideal jacket.

If its warm/summer I often just wear a lightweight track pant that drys fast, and dont even bother with rain pants. depends on the temp.
Wettest hunt I have done we pretty much didnt wear our rain as it was wet regardless, luckily it was warm or we would've been screwed

The yukon should do you pretty well Id say

 

[snowplow]

Im bringing the rain gear nomatter what. Would you guys bring both sets of pants though?


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[fisherman983]

I have the Yukon rain gear and gators.
Wear your gators outside your rain pants.. they will help with sticks and snags and stiff from messing up your spendy rain gear. I'd rather trash gators than a $300 pair of pants.
If its wet wear your rain gear. If it's not have it in your pack.

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[Piscatory_4]

Well the dry spell is over it seems so the raingear is a good choice. Yes to wearing gaiters all the time, I have for a few years now. Rainpants over the top of gaiters for me, freer moving rain pants that way. Too many times had water soak through above the knee and run into the boot if not wearing rain pants. If I need rain pants I'll be using rain jacket too. Yukon set should be good for brush busting, supposedly designed for Alaska according to Kuiu. I use the Kryptek Koldo set and got the Kuiu Ultra NX set last year to use this year. Only used the jacket so far in a short rain squall last week and yes I didn't wear the pants and water soaked through the attack pants around the knees and ran into the boots under the Yukon gaiters(should have put the pants on). That was just walking down a road...