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Location: SW Cheese Country
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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
I always wonder just how tough the old mountain men from the 19th and 20th century had to be. Wool clothes, no goretex, rubberized products or the modern technology of the clothes of today. Anyone that has even stepped into deep snow while wearing jeans knows how miserable that is.
Those guys were just super tough. Now imagine how tough the Native Americans had to be. They were truly stone age peoples, but they figured out how to survive.
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Wool is a great natural material for insulation and keeps you warm even if it gets wet.
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