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To both of those you might also consider carrying a light weight UV umbrella. When you are steaming inside your buttoned up rain gear you can flip back your hood and loosen your neck and cool off under the umbrella. And carry your own shade in...
For Oct/Nov I would take the rain coat and rain pants. I did in 2015 and I was always dry and comfortable. It would rain days all day long. I also took waterproof socks and non goretex shoes which were always dry the next day (newspaper inside...
Thank you all for the helpful information and sharing what worked best for you! I'm leaning toward taking either my Houdini wind jacket or Torrentshell rain jacket in addition to the Altus poncho. I'll make a final decision when packing, taking...
You don’t need both - just bring the Altus.
My mom loved the Altus - she wore it as both wind jacket and rain jacket. It became her favorite piece of gear. We walked the CF from Pamplona to Santiago in March and April of this year and she...
I started early September with a poncho, which was enough for rain, and a heavy fleece. I bought a softshell rain jacket in Burgos or Leon, because of the cold/wind. So I think take both if the weight is OK for you.
We took 45 days SJPP to SdC so...
I took a Patagonia Torentshell on the Norte/Primitivo in the fall of 2023. It works well almost all of the time. However, if you get a lot of continuous rain, even a Gortex jacket will give up the ghost. Last fall there was a lot of continuous...
As per answers above IMHO it is not an overkill. Both items do not represent a lot of weight but give you a variety of options what may work best in many given situations.
I walked May-June 2022 (not even Oct\Nov) and I had both jacket and...
We just walked 3 weeks on the Camino del Norte. We had altus rain ponchos and no other rain gear. (New for us.) We ran into rain here and there and chilly weather and they worked beautifully.
We've always brought rain jackets in the past but we...
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