Colour

cathyjc

cathyjc

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Whiteburn said:
Simple, they've got BIG permanent marker lettering on one side; FLY, NEST, X-Therm, etc.
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And when they are all lying wri,ting side down - you have to turn them all over, one at a time, and the one you want will inevitably be the last one you turn over LOL :D.
And when you find you need a smaller or bigger sack for a particular item swopping them around is "problematical". :confused:
Nice try :thumbsup:, but I'll stick with my method :cool:.

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Taz38

Taz38

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I get told off a little for not wearing something bright in case of needing rescue.
I tend to wear a variety of colour that sometimes matches (to the relief of my OH who even matches his shoelaces to his socks).
I like blues, greens, black, purple, teal, fine with brown and grey, not keen on orange and red (which are my OHs favs incidentally), also yellow and pink.

My stuffsacks are all different colours to help identify kit inside, but that sometimes changes rendering that method a little useless.
 
EM-Chiseller

EM-Chiseller

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Orange because its lighter lol even though I seem to have gone in to lime greens.. And 2 yellow jackets lol
I'd sooner be seen if needed, it's also good for showing how clumsy I am when I have visible mud slides on them.
As Teepee says, an orange or bright shelter can help lift the gloom of your having to spend some time inside. Plus sunsets and sunrises are better imho.
 
oreocereus

oreocereus

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I like colourful clothing (and hair, tattoos, jewellery, art). But I don’t like looking like the goofy showiness of a lot of technical/athletic clothing, especially as most of my walking tends to happen on longer trips which is interspersed with more regular travel. Currently in Morocco and can be quite comfortable hiking at -4c (as it was this morning!) wearing the same clothes I walk around the villages in, without sticking out more than the usual white guy. Olive pants without any weird knee patches or excessive zips, Brown button up poly shirt, generic green fleece, all black trail runners.

So, drab colours help me blend in a bit more while travelling, without needing “town clothes.”
 
EM - paul

EM - paul

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i like bright but i can officially say that in the UK black is the most popular colour of everything i sell when there is a choice of colour on a particular item but iun Europe colours sell better when bright.
 
Bmblbzzz

Bmblbzzz

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I like colours. Like Cathyjc, I have lived in the tropics (South India) but I've always liked colour. But like Dovidola, I also consider browns, greens and so on to be colours; proper ones!

When we returned from India, we were in Warsaw for a while (because becauseness) and it was January. January in Poland can mean beautiful sunny but cold days with a crisp blue sky, or it can mean grey fog, clouds, mud. It will mean snow, which isn't white and clean unless it's just fallen. It might have been lying there since November, in which case it's grey or brown. But that's weather and we're talking about clothes; in Warsaw, they're all black and grey. And people's faces are so white! Which isn't just the contrast with Indian skin, it's a winter thing. And definitely people's moods are grey. In the countryside, strangely, people are more likely to dress in colours; not bright reds and yellows, but at least bright blues and greens. It might be because people are less fussed about clothes so don't search out the stylish slick black and grey, but also it's easier to be unconventional in the (Polish) countryside than the city. (I'm fairly familiar with Polish villages, cos I married a Polish peasant girl – her own self-description.) And Britain, with the probably exception of the urban-rural contrast, is very similar. Okay, the snow is another difference. I think a lot of it is down to the requirements and expectations of work dress codes and school uniforms.

But the question was meant to be about bright colours for safety. TBH, I've never thought about it. Although, as I said, I like bright colours, I don't like fluourescents, so I personally wouldn't wear those. I do like reflectives, but I wouldn't particularly consider them as a safety factor on the hills. So I reckon my answer is you like it, wear it, if you don't like it, don't let safety considerations persuade you otherwise.

There's also the question of what shows up where. Fluourescent yellow (apart from my dislike of it!) doesn't always show up that well against grass. Orange or bright blue can show up better. Or pink (a maligned colour).
 
Heltrekker

Heltrekker

Section Hiker
Bmblbzzz said:
But the question was meant to be about bright colours for safety.
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Joking aside, where I live in southwest France, we have organised hunting for boar, deer and other game and in the season the hunters share the trails and woodlands with the hikers. The big organised hunts with orange jackets and loud dogs are easy to avoid, but the stalkers and hides are almost invisible unless you know they are there. There are very strict regulations about shooting across trails and roads, but accidents do happen all too often. Outside of full summer, like it or not, it's wise to wear something bright on top, whether a hat, jacket or rucksack, so some 80-year old short-sighted chasseur doesn't mistake you for something edible.
 
Bmblbzzz

Bmblbzzz

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That's a different sort of safety again but also a good point. Perhaps not terribly applicable to most of Britain, where shooting tends to be birds, though could be worth bearing in mind in deer stalking areas (? I know nothing of deer stalking).

I do remember meeting a bloke in NZ who had been shot during a hunt (can't remember exactly what they were hunting) and lost his leg. :( And even in England, it's not a particularly rare sight to see road signs with shotgun holes in. Presumably as target practice, or might have been random shots, I don't know? Random example: https://goo.gl/maps/kPruV749hxqv3Wiz6
 
cathyjc

cathyjc

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Bmblbzzz said:
That's a different sort of safety again but also a good point. Perhaps not terribly applicable to most of Britain, where shooting tends to be birds, though could be worth bearing in mind in deer stalking areas (? I know nothing of deer stalking).

I do remember meeting a bloke in NZ who had been shot during a hunt (can't remember exactly what they were hunting) and lost his leg. :( And even in England, it's not a particularly rare sight to see road signs with shotgun holes in. Presumably as target practice, or might have been random shots, I don't know? Random example: https://goo.gl/maps/kPruV749hxqv3Wiz6
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Shared a hut in NZ with 3 guys out for their annual week of hunting (red deer ?). They all wore bright pink disruptive pattern gilets.
The deer don't see pink as 'bright' the way we see it, the disruptive pattern is camouflage, and they can spot each other and avoid getting shot.
 
Bmblbzzz

Bmblbzzz

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I read something similar, except it was suggesting an orange and grey pattern as being optimum for human vision but all blending into muck for the deer (or whatever it was). Whether it's orange or pink or even yellow or flo-green is probably a secondary question, it seems to rely on the prey species not having colour vision. Or at least not the same colours as us.
 
Teepee

Teepee

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Harkila (Scandinavian) hunting jacket.

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Bmblbzzz

Bmblbzzz

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Balagan said:
I am colour blind as long as the price is right.

PS: I'm not talking about the hunting gear above and I would draw the line at Paramo's idea of style, whatever the price.
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Just for the colours?

I have a Paramo jacket which is dark blue all over. It's a decent colour IMO. Looking at their website, while they do have a lot of plain blue or black or red or green stuff, they do have quite a bit which is in strange bitones: pale blue and bright orange or "rust and midnight" and so on. But there do seem to always be options, which is good. What I do find slightly odd about their style is the cut: the ungainly long arms (I understand the theory behind this but I'm not sure it works for me) and the baggy, erm, "Anglo-Saxon" sizing (I'm 175cm, which is average height for a UK male, so why does a medium drown me?). Colour-wise, they do seem a bit 1990s compared to the single-block oranges and reds that seem to be the rage now.
 
Balagan

Balagan

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Bmblbzzz said:
Just for the colours?

I have a Paramo jacket which is dark blue all over. It's a decent colour IMO. Looking at their website, while they do have a lot of plain blue or black or red or green stuff, they do have quite a bit which is in strange bitones: pale blue and bright orange or "rust and midnight" and so on. But there do seem to always be options, which is good. What I do find slightly odd about their style is the cut: the ungainly long arms (I understand the theory behind this but I'm not sure it works for me) and the baggy, erm, "Anglo-Saxon" sizing (I'm 175cm, which is average height for a UK male, so why does a medium drown me?). Colour-wise, they do seem a bit 1990s compared to the single-block oranges and reds that seem to be the rage now.
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The patterns more than the colours:

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Hum .. the colours too, come to think of it. ;)
 
Enzo

Enzo

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I've that enduro but in that blue and black. Quite like that red and blue...
But there is clearly no excuse for the Velez colour scheme.
 
Bmblbzzz

Bmblbzzz

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Those are both somewhere on the scale of medieval jester meets aniline dyes. I know some Paramo garments are made in Colombia and (I think) Bolivia, could they possibly be designed by reincarnated Inca shamans under the influence of ayahuasca? Or just too much high altitude gin?

But at least they do offer plain alternatives:

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Though the Velez in that colour scheme seems to have moved from hallucinatory high priest to drug lord roadblock chic.
 
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