019 - Beat the Heat: Rain Jackets, Linen, and the Eternal Search for the Right Shorts

We kick things off with the obligatory "what are you wearing?" and a little weather envy—rainy and gray in Boulder, humid and sauna-like in Austin. From there, we tumble into our usual rabbit hole of summer travel style, comparing notes on everything from rain jackets that refuse to age, to linen shirts that are better engineered than some spacecraft. We argue (passionately) about shorts, try to figure out why every technical piece looks too pristine out of the box, and share some trade secrets for scoring sales and coping with the wild world of international sizing. Along the way, we diagnose the retail experiences of every outdoor brand store we know (spoiler: if you've ever been lost in a Montbell, it's not just you), share our grievances with Boulder's Patagonia monoculture, and demonstrate proper Leica battery changes—because who doesn't want to feel like John Wick on vacation? Naturally, we close it all out with hot takes on approach shoes, unsolicited life advice on field snorkeling, and a solemn promise to deliver more style, more rants, and more questionable summer shopping choices next week.   Apparel & Footwear: Levi's 501 Jeans Triple Aught Design Overland Shirt (French twill) Filson Short Lined Tin Cloth Cruiser Vollebak Planet Earth Lightweight Jacket (discontinued) Amundsen Sports Ditch Hiker Collection Amundsen Traveler Collection – Linen Lady White & Co. T-Shirts Drake's Chinos Patagonia Baggies Shorts Outlier New Way Shorts Outlier Injected Linen Pants Outlier Dreamweight T-shirt Outlier Ramie/Three Bar Cap Sunspel Riviera Polo Fjällräven Stiksen Hats Hard Graft Shoes Astroflex Penny Loafer Mocha Flex Crockett & Jones Harvard II Loafer Nike City 1 (C1TY) Nike Trail/ACG/Mountain Fly North Face Cliff Approach Shoe Danner x Huckberry N45 Vans Observer Collection (Hat) Fingers Crossed Socks ROTOTO Socks Disclaimer: Some links in our show notes and on our website are affiliate links. This means we may earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase—at no additional cost to you. We only recommend products and brands we genuinely like and use.