[Sca-cooks] dealing with the heat at Pennsic

[Stefan li Rous]

Kirsten Houseknecht commented:
> also, my list is colored by the fact that i am a heat stroke and 
> hypothermia
> survivor... and have ever  after been more succeptable to extremes of
> temperature....
So, how do you deal with the hot weather? I can deal with the cold 
weather by adding more layers, although there have been Pennsics where 
I never used my cloak. But get real uncomfortable in hot weather. It's 
not like I can spend all of my time in the period swimming hole.

I've started switching to using linen for my outer clothing layers 
because it breathes so much better. The heat is also one reason I moved 
off the Serrengetti (where even the 9am sun can turn a nylon tent into 
an oven) down to the lake, even though it is further from most classes. 
You can actually feel the temperature cool as you walk down the hill 
from the Serrengetti.

I have my red, folding broad-brimmed hat, which some of you have seen 
to help keep the sun off of my head.

So, any other suggestions? I liked last Pennsic because it didn't have 
that many really hot days.

Stefan
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