Hi! I'm Ken Eastman, of Wildlife Habitat Consultants. We are here, to talk to you today about the proper use of what clothing to dress up for ice fishing and shelters. And we'll go though just a little bit here, with it and we'll start with what I'm wearing here. On your Lauren Jon, you want to wear either medium-weight or heavy-weight. You want to wear some type of Lauren Jon, that wipes away your sweat, because of the moisture, when you are walking. You wear your outer cloth, a lot of guys will wear something, like I have got on, or they'll wear their sweatpants or sweatshirt or fleece outfit, and then on your socks, you want to wear a nice wool sock, which works good for me and that sock is -- I find it wipes away the sweat. Then you want to wear another, wool sock on your boots. As you can see they are high, and the situation out here today, we get a lot of water on the ice. But where we are going to be out in. So these are high, and my feet stay nice and warm. Some people like a different pair of boots, they like just a heavy snow boot, with more insulation of 1200 grams that's insulate. It depends on what you are doing.
If we can, we'll go through a little bit of these clothing here. I am going to reach over and grab the pair of pants here. This happens to be the fleece, fleece and they have got this layer on. They are light weight, the wind doesn't go through, or if something happen, if you need to kneel down in the water, or sit in the water, they don't wet through. The jacket happens to be a nice -- I like goose down, that seems to be the best for me, and the GoreTex outer shell and they are light weight, they are not very heavy, and they really work great for taking the wind off you and keep you heating.
Then if it gets really cold we have like a vest or a sleeve, that's goose down tracks that goose down vest. And I find this works good as in between my shirt and my outerwear. I really like this. That keeps the wind out -- and it works great. Now for your maintenance, I found I have tried all kinds of wood choppers of that and I found that these -- these are made in Finland, this polar-tech high-tech maintenance, they are fleece line, they've rubber on the outside, and it run in maintenance. If your fingers stay close together, they will stay a lot warmer.
On your hat, I find you can wear it too, but I find I like this Johnson wool hat, it's line and all also it's got your flappers on it. One of these hats, like I am wearing here, they are fine but you'll end up freezing your ears, your outer skin, on some of these cold, cold age. So I find that works the best for me.
Another thing I like to use, these little hand warmers. You can get them for 8 hours or 24 hours. These work great, and all you have to do like I'll do one right now, because I think we are going to need them out here today, to be honest with that. All you do is take them out and you just shake them. Once the air explodes them, they heat up. And they'll last, like I said, 24 hours, and what we do with them, well, I got one here right, now. We throw them in our pocket just, so we can keep our hands warm and also one thing we do with them, is we take it to our bed keep it next to your bed and it keeps you nice and lightly, especially if you use them. If you are using magnets or what are you could call them neo-warms whichever you prefer.
And that we have gone through the clothing, we have covered all that; I am going to show you another, way to stay warm by talking about different shelters.
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