My Tilley LT6 has been going strong for a couple of years now on countless backpacking and snowshoeing and hiking trips, crumpled up, sweat on, dropped in mud (and worse), washed and wrung out dozens of times...it always bounces back and looks close to new.
Here it is in 40-knot winds atop Castle Peak in the Sierra Nevada:
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