July 19, Summer turns attire, pants, shorts or...

Shorts; skirts for gals. 

Spent first 5 years of my career working on a large dam in West Africa. I was young and in charge of 100 local workers. I wore shorts, full safari style. My workers were always making fun of me and eventually I approached the village elder, a wizened old man, much respected by all the local workers and asked for advise on how to deal with them.
I'll always remember what he told me, " in our country only little boys wear shorts, men wear pants"
I started wearing pants the next day.

Yes, but I've been to Africa and decided to come back here.

I wore shorts, full safari style..... I approached the village elder,  a wizened old man, much respected by all the local workers

He was probably just taking the pith?

The clincher is the dehydration catheter bladder attached to the right pant leg so I never have to stop to relieve myself while on long summer hauls.

I've advocated that as an improvement to the camelback packs for years! But that's because one of my lift skiing buddies has a tiny bladder and insists on copious hydration.

I've advocated that as an improvement to the camelback packs for years!  But that's because one of my lift skiing buddies has a tiny bladder and insists on copious hydration.

Both you and Joedabaker might want to consider a "still suit" as worn by Femen in the famous sci-fi movie Dune.
It allowed the wearers sweat and urine to be recycled to provide hydration.
See wiki.
dune.wikia.com/wiki/Stillsuit
"It's basically a micro-sandwich — a high-efficiency filter and heat-exchange system. The skin-contact layer's porous. Perspiration passes through it, having cooled the body ... near-normal evaporation process. The next two layers . . . include heat exchange filaments and salt precipitators. Salt's reclaimed. Motions of the body, especially breathing and some osmotic action provide the pumping force. Reclaimed water circulates to catchpockets from which you draw it through this tube in the clip at your neck... Urine and feces are processed in the thigh pads. In the open desert, you wear this filter across your face, this tube in the nostrils with these plugs to ensure a tight fit. Breathe in through the mouth filter, out through the nose tube. With a Fremen suit in good working order, you won't lose more than a thimbleful of moisture a day..."


It would look quite fetching on the Muir snowfield  I think.

The DUNE attire looks pretty cool, skirts are not for me...but I prefer shorts in the summer.

(summer at Chinook Pass)
www.hyak.net/pics/jackchnk.jpg