HALLOWEEN SURVIVAL SALE! UP TO 58% OFF
HALLOWEEN SURVIVAL SALE! UP TO 58% OFF
Hunter Green
Price £24.95
Ultralight Gaiter
Price £24.95
Sunbeater Hoodie + Ultralight Gaiter
Original price £87.90Sale price £77.95Make it yours
Think about where you actually get caught out. The back of your neck on an exposed ridge. Your face in a headwind on the bike. Your ears on a cold morning walk. It's the same few inches every time, and nothing in your kit is designed to cover them.
So you improvise. You pull your collar up and it drops again. You put sunscreen on your face and it runs into your eyes the moment you sweat. Or you just put up with it, which is what most people do.
The BÆRSkin Ultralight Gaiter is the one piece that closes that gap. UPF 40 blocking 97.5% of UV, moisture-wicking and quick-dry so it doesn't sit damp against your skin, and light enough that it lives in a pocket until the moment you need it.
One Piece of Kit. Several Jobs. Almost No Weight.
Blocks 97.5% of UV rays, which puts it in the "Excellent" protection band. It covers the exact places people get burnt and forget about: the back of the neck, the ears, the bridge of the nose.
The knit pulls sweat off your skin through capillary channels, then spreads it across the outer surface so it evaporates fast. That's why it stays comfortable pulled up over your mouth instead of going damp and clammy.
6% elastane means it stretches horizontally and vertically, so it moves with you and springs back to shape. Pull it up, pull it down, wear it as a headband - it won't sag out after a week.
At 185gsm it rolls down to nothing and lives in a jacket pocket, a pannier or a glovebox. The best protection is the protection you actually have with you.
A gaiter fails in two ways: it goes damp and clammy against your face, or it stretches out and stops staying where you put it. Both are fabric problems.
The 94% polyester knit handles the first - tiny capillary channels move sweat off your skin to the outer surface, where it spreads wide enough to evaporate quickly rather than sitting there. The 6% elastane handles the second, stretching in both directions and recovering its shape every time.
Keep it in a pocket and forget about it until the wind turns or the sun comes out from behind a cloud. Then it's up over your neck and face in a second, and rolled away again just as fast.
UPF is the sun protection rating for fabric. UPF 40 blocks 97.5% of UV radiation, letting only 1/40th through to your skin - which puts it in the "Excellent" protection band. Unlike sunscreen, it doesn't sweat off, wash off or need reapplying.
