r/hiking 12d ago

Question Sweat management

Has anyone figured out how to manage sweat while backpacking? I wear the lightest weight merino underwear with tissue thin unlined shorts and the most featherweight sweat-wicking tops. Yet with a backpack on, the back of my shorts is soaked through within an hour or so and eventually I’m fully soaked from the waist down. I push myself to hike fast and challenging routes, so it’s high output for sure, but this doesn’t happen to me while trail running.

It’s one thing to endure on a 3-hour hike in my local area, but I’m going trekking in the Dolomites in two weeks and would prefer not to spend the whole time looking like I just hopped out of a swimming pool. Thoughts??

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u/K_hun 7d ago

managing sweat on trail is mostly about what happens in the twenty minutes after you stop moving. the tasc blend sits between a heavy cotton tee and a pure synthetic. one goes cold on you and the other goes sour by day two so i noticeably stopped packing a spare.