I don’t intentionally go out in downpours, but if it’s
cold and I’m wearing my Patagonia fleece or my Land’s End fleece
jacket, I may get a bit wet after a while, but I’ll be warm, unless I
made the mistake of wearing a cotton shirt under it. I try not to do that
anymore. I have wonderful fleece tights with a smooth outside to keep hay chafe
and horsehair from clinging from Evelyn’s
Tights. All the fleece gear is water repellent, so if it’s a brief
rainfall or light rain, I hardly get wet.
I did buy a good set of Goretex
raingear from Cabela’s last year, a hooded jacket
and pants, for around $100 each piece with the intentin
of using them for riding in heavy rain, but generally it just gets used around
here, feeding in downpours or having to do some other outside work that can’t
wait. I like it better than plastic type of waterproof gear because when I’m
done, I just shake it off and it’s dry, and I don’t get soaked by
body humidity when I’m working in Gortex
raingear.
