Quick little jaunt for some members of Timberhaven. We only went 2 miles along the river bank and only took a few pictures and had a cold lunch (I did make coffee using modern backpacking gear... gotta have a brew-up!)
I will not speak on the opinions of my compatriots, I'm actually in kit that I have done some hiking in, but I hope they learned a little bit about their own kit - and this is why we do these things.
Here is some of my own points regarding my own kit:
1) My shoes (I have 3 pairs, each with their own job) that I wear 90% of the time: Last time I wore them was during Althing (All Rain Thing) September 2021 and they got soaked. When I got home I did the normal care I do for most of my shoes after such an outing - I dried them, cleaned them, and treated the leather (Neets). Then I stuffed my dried nalbinding socks and rolled winingas into them and put the shoes on the shoe-shelf my family has.
I had not worn them all winter. I pull them down Sunday morning to wear them and they were a little stiff and a little "shrunk" as I broke a sweat getting them on! I applied some "fixin wax" I make (1:1 lard and beeswax mostly) after I got them on and they stretched out and were fine within a few hours and especially after I started walking and they got a little wet.
When I got home I did the same care routine and, FINALLY, found a hole in the sole where the ball of my foot is. I'm not going to lie and come up with some big number of miles until this happaend but it was a good amount of time until this happened. I will be buying a new pair within a year (Boots By Bohemond) and will mess around, more historical experimentation, on what one could do to "patch" the small hole and give the shoe a few more miles of life.
2) My current "outdoorsmen" outfit works great in most weather other than anything over 70 degrees (when I go with my Viborg shirt, hose, light bries).
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| Late summer 2021, 80 degree day. Comfortable but would rather be in shorts and a t-shirt. |
What I'm wearing is (skin to outer) linen shirt and bries, wool Thorsberg trousers and a belt, thicker nalbinding socks based off York find, thin-ish winningas, "woking-fella's" wool tunic based off Kragelund, and topped off with my very thick "thorax warmer" vest via Hedeby and a Hedeby-style hood that keeps the heat in and the wind and sun off my neck.
That hood is one of the few things that survived the "purge" of old SCA items I had when I decided to get back into reenacting in the mid '10s. It even has a moth-hole in it that I darned up. So Historical!!
3) As practical as a rectangular cloak is I left mine in the car. It was much warmer than we tought it'd be and I was plenty comforatble standing in the parking lot with what I had on (pictured above). My partners did wear their cloaks and we learned they could be a bit much and also easily got tangled in brambles and brush.
4) I'm pretty lucky with winningas. I wrap them pretty tight with a twist in the back (I have big-ass calves) and just tuck them at the top. I have never had problems doing it theis way. The winningas themselves are a thinner wool and have a good stretch with the herringbone weave.
The outift above is my standard soft kit currently. I like to impress a working-fella look, maybe a Jutlander male that fishes and/or works the river around Ribe. Most of my clothing is based off Hedeby finds. In real life, and since I can work from home 2 days a week, I have worn this outfit often and sat at my desk or did chores in them. I've even did some light wood work and leather sewing while wearing this outfit. It is well fitted to me (a larger man) and I am very comfortable it in.
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