Ryan Jordan
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first heard Jun 2026
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And other times I'm just not paying close enough attention to my own thermoregulation and don't even notice what's happening.
Yeah.
And still at other times I just feel like it's no big deal and I don't really need to make that adjustment right now.
But in all of these scenarios, the decision I make feels like it has harmless consequences.
Much like buying that little thing and charging it to my credit card.
No big deal, I'll deal with the cost sometime in the future.
And one of the things I have to be really careful about is the belief, and it's often often a false belief.
that the cost is going to be inconsequential and that I'm experienced enough to handle it when the time comes.
Sometimes that's true, sometimes that's not.
But just like a credit card purchase, delaying a layering decision absolutely results in a cost that's going to come sooner or later.
Now in some situations the cost of being inattentive to your layering is kind of low, but not all the time, especially in cold, windy, rainy, or snowy weather.
And in those conditions, the cost can really rear its ugly head.
It can appear when you stop and your heat production drops, or when you or when sweat that accumulated during that climb begins evaporating from your base layer and starts to chill you.
Or when damp fabric touches your skin and starts conducting body heat away, or when wind causes rapid convective heat loss from your clothing system.
Other ways this cost appears, for example, when you notice that zipper pulls or backpack buckles or your stove valve or your phone screen or your shelter hardware becomes harder and harder to manipulate because now your fingers are really cold and you've lost dexterity.
All of these costs are the result of some type of earlier decision you've made because of inattention, ignorance, or laziness, and today constitute what I'm calling thermoregulatory debt.
Specifically, I want to define thermoregulatory debt as the delayed physiological cost incurred when your clothing traps too much heat during.
During high output movement, allows too much heat loss during low output periods, or retains moisture that increases heat loss later.
We'll continue after the break, but first a word from today's sponsor.
Today's episode is sponsored by Brigne.
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