GoatRider
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Registered: 08/28/04
Posts: 835
Loc: Maple Grove, MN
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1. Kept wearing soaked clothes. - everything should be taken off. Depending on the material you can lose body heat up to 300x faster when clothes are wet.
Depends on the clothes. Cotton, get it off for sure! But polar fleece and wool retain some insulation when wet, and I think she mentions she was wearing fleece.
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