Comments on: Icebreaker Challenge

By: Adelaide

Adelaide — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:24:32 +0000

Me, too. We only need so many rags in our house.

By: wildelycreative

wildelycreative — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:35:37 +0000

Interestingly enough, the bamboo doesn’t hold the nasty pong of trail pits after washing as cotton does. A good things – I was getting sick of turning T-shirts into dishcloths.

By: Adelaide

Adelaide — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:51:40 +0000

Wow. Way to take one for the team and ride in the trunk! (Especially since Houston can be murderous without AC)

I’m glad you mentioned the smell of the wet wool. I noticed it too. My friend told me that I smelled a little like a wet sheep, but not in a bad way, which I guess that’s a good thing. Or, at least, a half good thing.

By: Adelaide

Adelaide — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:44:13 +0000

I’ve been wondering how well bamboo work. The merino seems to be doing fine, depending on who does the smelling. My college roommate (who used to make me keep my running shoes in the hallway of our dorm) says that it smells a little, but my outdoorsy friends say they don’t notice anything. So I may have to be choosy about who I wear the shirt around.

Speaking of baths, I’m due for one myself, too.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:40:10 +0000

Who’s going to sit on the judge’s panel?

Good luck with this one – merino is awesome, and I can hardly believe how many days I can get away with wearing smartwool socks before they start to smell . . . but eventually they need a wash. I think the safer assumption is that it won’t RETAIN the smell when you wash it like some other things.

By: john

john — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:01:40 +0000

I can tell you first hand that these shirts do work – they’re really incredible. I traveled for three months this summer with only two icebreaker tshirts, and they never smelled (almost true, for some reason they smell when wet, like when you have been out in the rain, or they just come out of the wash – but it isn’t a completely bad smell). One anecdote stands out in particular:
The group I was traveling with was one too many to fit in a sedan to bring us around Houston, so I rode in the trunk. The trunk on this sedan didn’t get any of the wonderful cold air from the cabin, and it was really really hot. When I got out, I was literally drenched in sweat – I could have just jumped in a pool. Inside I took a shower while I let my shirt dry off. When I came out, I gave it a whiff, and you would never know that it didn’t just come out of the wash.
I’m totally in love with these shirts, but I only wear them when I need them now, since I’ve gotten a few oil stains on one that won’t come out.

By: wildelycreative

wildelycreative — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:15:57 +0000

I got a bamboo base layer for the same reason – it promised no odor.
Now, either I stink more than most and that’s why the shirt did, or the claims are wrong. I think it might be the former rather than the latter.
Will be interested to know if the merino works better.
*sniff* time for a bath!