How to tie A Bandana For Hiking
How to tie a bandana for bikers and hikers
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when I'm hiking in the woods are
backpacking I often wear a bandana and
at the request of one of my sisters she
asked me to show her how to to fold a
bandana the way I wear it and you can
find this on YouTube but I'll just show
you how I do it and it is also an easy
way to keep the sweat out of your eyes
and to have a place to put your
sunglasses that they'll stay put and
this also does not come off when you're
riding your motorcycle and so I just
show you how I do it but you go ahead
and fold a bandana and I have four or
five different colors of bandanas and so
fold it so that you have a triangle and
put it on your face now I can't see what
I'm doing in the video but I'll just go
ahead and and tie this the way I would
normally do it used to tie it in the
mirror don't need to tighten the mirror
anymore but go ahead and tie it firmly
and then tie a knot in it in the back
okay so once you've got that knot tied
firmly then go ahead and grab both
corners hold on to the bottom corner and
pull the other one up over your face and
pull it back now hanging on to the
bottom and hanging on to the back pull
the back down so that it slides the part
covering your face slides up like this
then go ahead and kind of bring it
together twist it a little bit and I
like to take mine up off the ears both
sides okay and then just continue to
twist this and then lay it off to one
side of the bandanna here and then start
to fold it under just kind of roll it
and do one side and the other side you
can do both simultaneously whatever it
is and then just pull it down
put down and continue to roll continue
to roll it all the way around and pull
it down and continue to roll this roll
is going to be neat it's going to absorb
so much of the moisture the sweat that's
coming off and getting into your eyes
when you're hiking backpacking like I do
in the country and up the hills and over
the mountains and and it'll kind of
protect you a little bit too from the
Sun I've never gotten sunburned or had
the Rays come through this thing even
though it's a very lightweight it
protects protects my skin fold it back
again all the way to the ears and back
if you need now in the back you still
have this long thing here that's going
to hang down and when you have
sufficiently roll this so that you feel
like you've got a good you know you've
got a good place to hold your your
sunglasses later on you just set them up
there nil that bulge that roll will hold
it firmly for you and then not let it
slide off your face or into your eyes or
anything like that I've never lost my
sunglasses my shades are wearing them up
here ok so now that you've done that you
need to take this and you need to see
you've got the back part
you're just gonna put it underneath and
not that you've tied and continue
pulling that and I like to pull mine all
the way across the back and now I'm not
showing you very well here but all
across the bag across the bag so that it
comes down now it's hanging down in the
back and now you've got loose ends
you've got kind of some loose stuff up
here what I like to do then is just to
take grab that kind of pull it down and
stuff it underneath the role that I have
just tuck it into that roll it's been
created so that it smoothes out no
bulges over here see this bulgy stuff
I'll take it and kind of pull it down
and then tuck it under as well into that
roll and you might have to work at it a
little bit so that's what I do and just
work at it until I get it to like it
needs to be and rather than take a lot
of time on this showing you how to do
the little stuff well maybe I ought to
just show you anyway keep that roll
going and get that stuff tucked in and
tucked under don't want that coming out
don't want to look like I've got a lot
of air under there and so it feels feels
kind of firm all the way across and if
you have any extra little stuff sticking
out in the back like the original knot
you can kind of tuck that in to the roll
as well and if you want don't need to
don't want to have to any loose stuff
go ahead and tuck it under as well and
so what you have then is it completed I
don't know what they call this I don't
know the name of this stuff but I like
to pull mine down right to my eyebrows
you can roll it down because you got
plenty of roll there you can roll it
down or pull it down and then your
sunglasses they just go right up here
and they sit right there and and they
never fall off and never have fallen off
with me and then you just take them in
there you are just move them up or down
and so that's that's how I make mine and
for what it's worth not sure who I my
sister what I know how to do this but
anyway it's been done and what I'm out
on the trail it's um it is just so nice
not to have to keep wiping that sweat
out of your eyes constantly on a warm
day when you're backpacking I usually
pack a full pack because I go out into
the woods and do a lot of hiking and I
like to stay in shape assume that
someday I might want to do the
Appalachian Trail I want to be ready for
it and so I always carry a full pack
which is fully loaded for four days of
food and everything I need for four days
and I usually runs about 25 26 pounds
fully loaded everything in there so
that's what I carry a fully loaded pack
and I found that this helps immensely
with you know worrying about sweat and
then when I'm walking in the green
tunnel sometimes it's kind of dark when
you're walking it here in the east and
you've got so much greenery that when
you're hiking the trails there's so much
overhead green stuff leaves and foliage
and stuff like that that it's kind of
dark you can just take these and raise
them up especially when I'm wanting to
see the real colors and I'm looking for
lizards or rocks or flowers you know
I've been I'll pull these shades back so
I can see full the colors the way I need
to otherwise these come in very handy
this way okay so
there you have it and I think you see
these things I learned how to do this on
YouTube so there's there's YouTube
videos out there to show I just don't
know what they call these things once
they you know bandana it's on your head
like this all right so much for this
