Mary Malmros wrote:


foot2foot wrote:

Waterproof breathable "coatings" are useless.


If you're talking about the DWR coating that's placed on Gore-tex
outerwear, you're wrong.


DWR means Durable Water Repellent and it's function
is to make water bead up on the surface as PART of
the total function of a Gore-tex garment. It's not
intended to be water-PROOF.

A coating like the urethane on the inside of my
motorcycle rain suit will become a sauna suit on
a warm drizzly day for a vigorous activity like
skiing. I only haul mine out if the
conditions border on frog-choking RAIN.