Best base layers? Cold weather gear.

[Tony Pic]

I wear under armor cold gear top and bottoms and always are warm.
I hear the Merino wool is the cats meow...But the UA works for me.

[Daniel75]

Spend the money. You won't regret it.

The hard part about dressing for cold weather around here is two-fold. First, we tend to sit when hunting. Any physical activity generates enough body heat to make what you're wearing that's keeping you warm while sitting still unbearably hot. Second, once the sun comes up, so do the temps. What you need at 6 am isn't what you need at 9 or 10 am.

So layer as much as possible. I've got a set of Cabela's now discontinued goose down long underwear. I will wear silk or polypropylene thermals as a base layer, then the goose down, then a coverall. When the temps rise or I get out of the stand, I'll take the goose down off and still have the base layer and coverall.

LWD

100% spot on.

I splurged last year and bought First Lite merino wool, excellent product and worth every penny. They have different thicknesses too. Buy once, cry once. No more cheap hunting clothes for me, it took one weekend of freezing my nads off in a tree stand in OK and having to walk back to camp early because I was cold and feeling like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man with 5 layers on top and 3 on bottom, I said "enough is enough."

[Mike D]

The merino wool is worth every single penny.

[Texas Stalker]

For anyone in the know, is Ice Breaker in the lightweight or mid weight merino best for cold sits?

[mmcan]

Merino wool, weight and layered as needed, and oh so toasty.

First lite is greatness. Kuiu has had some on sale recently. Camofire also runs some sales at times

Worth the price for sure