Next on Steven's gadget acqusition spree should be a SCOTTeVEST. I bought one of the 2.0 vests, and it has been a winner (aside from being just a tad big for me). I would really like to do the Three.0+ System with the zip in fleece, but I already have an arrangement just like that. One thing that I've learned from that arrangement is that in theory this is a nice idea but in practice it doesn't work well. I am *always* cold. So wear the fleece liner a lot. When it's not super cold then I'm always putting the shell on, but then the weather changes and I'm taking off the shell, and its a pain. I don't want to imagine that pain plus the added pain of loading / unloading all the devices from the shell to the vest and so forth. So the fleece would actually make sense for me.

I have a fleece that I wear around the house that is 7 years old. It's special because Julie made it for me back when we lived in the Valley. Unfortunately, it's got a hole in it because I wasn't careful around a beach fire that I was tending. Maybe when that well loved fleece has reached the end of life, I'll get a Scott fleece.