In reply to Trangia:
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> EG is a fell runner in light lycra in a summer storm "unprepared" when everyone else is bundled up in waterproofs?
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I think what people fail to grasp is the runner probably has no expectations of lasting out the storm..
Light weight gear is great, but it's not as good as the heavier gear, all you do is buy yourself time to use your advantage, which is speed off the hill..
And yes if you get injured its bad. I've often worried alot again about fell runners blind trust in thin paclite goretex.. the matra 'get injured, get your gear on and wait for help'..
If a runner was lay still, on a cold ground, vest shorts, covered in pertext bottoms and top, even a thin water proof layer, they'd still be in the shit.. marginally less maybe..
But its why if you have any doubt just run off, yeah you may do more damage to the injury but hyperthermia kills, not sore ankles..