I use Lifeventure Hydrofibre Trek towel and must say that it is amazing. That’s a subjective description and now for the objective one:
First my tests at home
I tried putting it in a pint glass (0.5 liter) full of water and it absorbed about 85% if not more of it. It did drip though but let’s be honest, you’ll never gonna be that wet to start with.
It doesn’t drip at all if you spill half a pint of liquid on it.
It can dry up any surface much quicker than the cotton towel as it absorbs the liquid more efficiently.
After a “pintful” test, the towel dried up in about 40 minutes in a room with 40% humidity and around 20°C (68°F).
A damp towel dries in about 15-20 minutes in the same conditions mentioned above.
In the wild
It is unbelievably light, only 150 gram (⅓ lb).
It will be a bit weird at first but you don’t wipe yourself with it, you just pat it over your skin.
It dries in half an hour in shade or only 5-10 minutes in sun. Of course, you can’t just bundle it and expect it to dry that quick, just put it on a clothesline.
The company offers other models as well, check them out here.
onebag.com has an opinion about that: The recommendation is viscose towels, in particular MSR PackTowl Original. Synthetic microfibres are said to be inferior to viscose.
I have one: it is great!
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4 Mar, 2024
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