Thread: Wool, wool, wool.

I treasure a set of mittens my mother knitted for me when I was 17. They have been frozen solid on the outside (and used to hammer tent pegs into snow crust) and are still usable (although sort of retired from active service) after 41 years of trips.

The point being is there is a lot of "forgotten" knowledge out there about how to do things. We owe it to ourselves and kids to find and use it so they have a chance to escape the rampant consumerism and marketing that has cursed us with synthetics.