Helen1
Active Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- London to Santiago (2014)
Narbonne to Oloron (2015)
Camino Portugues (2016)
Sentier Cathar (2017)
Following all the discussion in this thread about jeans I feel that I should make a confession….
I walked in my jeans on the Camino Frances…
and I also took a Benetton wool cardigan with me…
I took stretchy cropped jeans that didn’t weigh too much, I took them because I had them (so didn’t need to buy anything else), I hike in them all the time at home, I can wear them for a while without needing to wash them and they are super comfortable. I also tool my cardigan because it was something I already had, it also doesn’t weigh much, after being outside all day I tend to get chilled even on summer evenings and it made an extremely versatile extra layer.
I know the dangers of walking in wet jeans and wouldn’t have gone up a mountain in them in bad weather but I was perfectly happy walking in my jeans. I think it’s nice to have special hiking gear but it’s not the end of the world to walk in what you have.
I walked in my jeans on the Camino Frances…
and I also took a Benetton wool cardigan with me…
I took stretchy cropped jeans that didn’t weigh too much, I took them because I had them (so didn’t need to buy anything else), I hike in them all the time at home, I can wear them for a while without needing to wash them and they are super comfortable. I also tool my cardigan because it was something I already had, it also doesn’t weigh much, after being outside all day I tend to get chilled even on summer evenings and it made an extremely versatile extra layer.
I know the dangers of walking in wet jeans and wouldn’t have gone up a mountain in them in bad weather but I was perfectly happy walking in my jeans. I think it’s nice to have special hiking gear but it’s not the end of the world to walk in what you have.