08-05-2014, 05:25 AM
The few times I've been out in really hot weather (> 108F in the Utah Desert), I've found that leather wear gave decent protection from the heat. I could feel how HOT the outside of the clothing was getting. To keep cool meant stopping often to dump water inside my clothes. It sure didn't take very long for it all to evaporate even from inside the jacket and pants. I imagine that I was quite a spectacle at times stopping at a gas station to buy a large cup of ice which I would then just dump inside the front of my jacket and down the inside of my pants, ah relief !
(edit to clarify) Both the jacket and the pants were leather. Also on that particular trip I was on the road in that heat for about 200 - 250 miles. I carried a LOT of water with me, mainly for evaporative cooling.
(edit to clarify) Both the jacket and the pants were leather. Also on that particular trip I was on the road in that heat for about 200 - 250 miles. I carried a LOT of water with me, mainly for evaporative cooling.