treat your fleece?

[rock-ice]

Do any of you treat your fleece with some sort of gu to make it less permiable in wet weather? So it acts somewhat like a soft shell, in that it does well in snowy conditions? Would this make it too unbreathable?

 

Just a thought, maybe this is really obvious.

Help me out. Thanks.

[foraker]

To make your fleece less permeable, forget your anniversary and tell it that it's butt does indeed look fat in those pants.

[DPS]

I have a friend that washed his fleece jackets in Nikwax waterproofing stuff. He liked the effect.

[Dru]

Sheep are waterproof. It's called lanolin.

[snoboy]

I knew somebody (a chemist) who dissolved his old toothbrushes in some solvent and painted them on his glove to see if that would waterproof it. Of course he did only one glove, so as to have a control.

 

I have thought about using some nikwaxy stuff. can't hurt I figure, but really, fleece is not gonna work as a shell IMO.

[bunglehead]

I've used that Nikwax fleece treatment for my fleece tops, and it worked well enough in the cascades (Oregon) for all but the absolute wettest snowfall.

[sobo]

I've used the NikWax for fleece (and for G/T) and swear by the stuff. All my fleece pieces are treated; hats, tops, pants, gloves, etc.