I was concerned when I heard Oscar say he researched this topic on the Internet, as this is often what other people say when they used a search engine to find statements just to support a personal bias. But as I trust Oscar's recommendations in other areas, I thought I'd give him a chance on this video too. I think he did a good job covering the issue, talking about its impact without being sensational, covered the response from the industry and legislatures to address the problem, and touched on what we can do about it. He gave a measured and reasonable response. He continues to show he is someone who gives solid advice with no nonsense or fillers. Keep up the good work, sir!
Depends, the more you put on, the more water resistant and the less breathable it gets. It just depends on to what degree you want to treat your gear. But if you want to make something completely water resistant for hours at a time, than it will barely be breathable at all.
Thanks, no more gore tex rain jackets for me. I am looking into LightHeartGear PFAS free rain jackets. I find that gore tex jackets are not good use near the equator. (humid + wet + hot environments like Japan summer) gore tex jackets can only do 1 and not both. Breathe or repel water, never both
I love my LightHeart raingear, good choice! I've used both the rainjacket and rainpants for several years. While the fabric doesn't breathe the way the jackets with PFAS do, it is 100% waterproof unlike all the breathable fabrics that eventually have rain soak through.
Great video, people usually think about things like durability, quality, functionality when it comes to buying outdoor gear, but this should definitely be added to that list. Thanks for highlighting it 👏
This is a good start for educating oneself on the PFAS issue, but the problem is much, much broader than what is obvious at the beginning. PFAS legislation only considered an insignificant number, four at the moment, of the 15,000 chemical compounds that fall in the PFAS category. There's is much more work to do on identifying the actual risks, causations and not correlations, and identifying the huge number of actual chemical compound that compose a risk. By the way, new GoreTex is now free of the listed PFAS chemicals, but there is no assurance some currently unlisted chemicals are present and those chemicals could be used in any "natural" fiber clothing manufacturing process. This is a Gordoan knot kind of problem.
I’m also a bit concerned about microplastics in our drinking water. I’ve seen many articles on this lately. I avoid bottled water at home but I see it’s even in our filtered tap water.
Thank you for posting this video, very important to get the word out! My other concern is microplastics in general, which linked to all sorts of health and reproductive issues. The concern is having our baselayers be plastic means when we sweat we get absorption through the skin. This is a big concern in activewear in general, the whole industry is toxic from this fact. I'm slowly replacing my clothing with natural fibres but not sure what to do with hiking base layers.
I love my silk long underwear base layers. Super lightweight, and very warm. Bought two sets-one was from LL Bean, the other, from Land’s End. They are both great.
Reason why i switched to Fjellrãven for outdoor clothing. Just prepare the clothingnwith their Greenland wax to make it waterproof after washing the gear
Great dive into this topic. This'll definitely be a factor in future gear purchases for me. The list of companies that are all PFAS-free or have PFAS-free options at 07:15 is super helpful.
Thank you very much for diving into the issue. It was very interesting to learn about pfas free brands and legislation. The presence of pfas will clearly guide all my future purchases of gear ! So just like you I'm hopeful all the major brands will catch up.
I really enjoyed the video and found it informative! You did great research and while you clearly stated there’s a problem and it should be taken care of, it didn’t seem sensationalized or flashy!
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Can’t wait for this to be a baseline across all manufacturing, globally.
except china, ofc, you'd have to wait A LONG TIME for it, unfortunately.
I was concerned when I heard Oscar say he researched this topic on the Internet, as this is often what other people say when they used a search engine to find statements just to support a personal bias. But as I trust Oscar's recommendations in other areas, I thought I'd give him a chance on this video too. I think he did a good job covering the issue, talking about its impact without being sensational, covered the response from the industry and legislatures to address the problem, and touched on what we can do about it. He gave a measured and reasonable response. He continues to show he is someone who gives solid advice with no nonsense or fillers. Keep up the good work, sir!
Sam Gamgee carried his cast iron cookware all the way to Mordor! He was right all along.
I was just thinking about this, best way to go is organic wax for waterproofing.
beeswax or what? Because the paraffin wax is just a petrol production by-product.
Is it breathable ?
@@undefinednull5749it increases durability and water resistance but no not durable. It makes outdoor gear look cool tho :)
It works but stay away from open flames. You are essentially making your gear into a firestarter.
@@timothybilotta8090 most gear is Flammable
Depends, the more you put on, the more water resistant and the less breathable it gets. It just depends on to what degree you want to treat your gear. But if you want to make something completely water resistant for hours at a time, than it will barely be breathable at all.
Thanks, no more gore tex rain jackets for me. I am looking into LightHeartGear PFAS free rain jackets.
I find that gore tex jackets are not good use near the equator. (humid + wet + hot environments like Japan summer)
gore tex jackets can only do 1 and not both. Breathe or repel water, never both
I love my LightHeart raingear, good choice! I've used both the rainjacket and rainpants for several years. While the fabric doesn't breathe the way the jackets with PFAS do, it is 100% waterproof unlike all the breathable fabrics that eventually have rain soak through.
Great video, people usually think about things like durability, quality, functionality when it comes to buying outdoor gear, but this should definitely be added to that list. Thanks for highlighting it 👏
This is a good start for educating oneself on the PFAS issue, but the problem is much, much broader than what is obvious at the beginning. PFAS legislation only considered an insignificant number, four at the moment, of the 15,000 chemical compounds that fall in the PFAS category. There's is much more work to do on identifying the actual risks, causations and not correlations, and identifying the huge number of actual chemical compound that compose a risk. By the way, new GoreTex is now free of the listed PFAS chemicals, but there is no assurance some currently unlisted chemicals are present and those chemicals could be used in any "natural" fiber clothing manufacturing process. This is a Gordoan knot kind of problem.
I’m also a bit concerned about microplastics in our drinking water. I’ve seen many articles on this lately. I avoid bottled water at home but I see it’s even in our filtered tap water.
I think that reverse osmosis and then remineralising the water may be the best solution
Microplastics only make up 0.5% of your brain by weight. Plenty of room for more! Or maybe that's my microplastics talking.
Thank you for posting this video, very important to get the word out!
My other concern is microplastics in general, which linked to all sorts of health and reproductive issues. The concern is having our baselayers be plastic means when we sweat we get absorption through the skin. This is a big concern in activewear in general, the whole industry is toxic from this fact. I'm slowly replacing my clothing with natural fibres but not sure what to do with hiking base layers.
I love my silk long underwear base layers. Super lightweight, and very warm. Bought two sets-one was from LL Bean, the other, from Land’s End. They are both great.
OMG, life, stop kicking me so hard! Just when I thought there is enough bad stuff in this world...
I guss that would explain the incredible surge of cancer we have seen over the last couple of decades....thank you for this...
Reason why i switched to Fjellrãven for outdoor clothing. Just prepare the clothingnwith their Greenland wax to make it waterproof after washing the gear
Great video! Thank you for speaking up so laudly against it and also for giving us a solution, mentioning the brands we can switch to 🧡
Great dive into this topic. This'll definitely be a factor in future gear purchases for me. The list of companies that are all PFAS-free or have PFAS-free options at 07:15 is super helpful.
Thank you Mr Hikes
Thanks for making informative videos . Most likely people that watch your videos want to protect nature.
Thank you very much for diving into the issue. It was very interesting to learn about pfas free brands and legislation. The presence of pfas will clearly guide all my future purchases of gear ! So just like you I'm hopeful all the major brands will catch up.
I really enjoyed the video and found it informative! You did great research and while you clearly stated there’s a problem and it should be taken care of, it didn’t seem sensationalized or flashy!
Not the only reason to not buy GTX….
I prefer itchy wool. Well done
great content, lets start a movement
Thanks
iam going to post comment here just to push algortihm, more people need to know about this
Have you got a list of the pfas free brands?
The outdoor minimalist podcast link is where?
In the description, but now also here: th-cam.com/video/GUkAJnwjmNw/w-d-xo.html
@@OscarHikesthanks, didn’t see it because it was crammed at the end.
That's normal,
Nature material are the best. The native samipeople could survive in the north of Sweden for 10.000 years, so...
I totally agree and this is the reason why I now sew and knit most of my garments. Real Wool stays warm even when wet
Squarespace feels like the LMNT/garagegrowngear for european hikers
wow
I'm sick of square space ads when I pay for no ads. Bye
I want my hiking gear to contain Pfas, It lasts forever, Doesn’t see much use and performs when it needs to. I use products of nature for daily use.
Very disappointed in this video and the completely unsupported, non scientific nonsense. Coat me in Teflon and wrap me in Gore Tex.
A little too much like science class for me.
A follow up……I love Oscar Hikes!