I do my best not to man-splain. There is such a thing as woman-splaining but it's far less prevalent and more specialized.

Dr Bill nailed it with “To stay warm is not rocket science, but to stay warm without becoming a soaking wet mess which then freezes is the tricky part." You figured out what you need to do

Let's not conflate egoism/egotism with mansplaining. They'll say the same shit to their male friends, believe me.

"Exerthermic" means heat-producing.

The Navy SEALs utilize this trick. They multiple layers of insulated gear, with the innermost layer being designed to wick sweat away from the body. When they stop to rest, instead of taking layers off, they put another absorbent layer over top of this layer to wick the moisture from the innermost layer, keeping them dry. The outermost layer is basically just plastic, and it's only purpose is to keep water out of the insulation layer.

I like spicy food, and I seem to have a ridiculously high tolerance for for Scoville units, but what I find tasty is far less than what I can tolerate, but higher than average as far as I can tell. I find that a moderately spicy dish enhances flavors for me.

I think it's good advice for everyone to dress in layers four child weather and pack extra layers. Depending on material wet clothes, particularly wool, can still provide insulation, but it's always better too have dry clothes too change into.

Along the same lines the material of your clothing is important in cold weather. A common cold-weather survival is; "Cotton kills." Wool and silk are great as far natural materials go, but the newer synthetic materials are so much better. I still like wool socks, but in extreme cold they go inside thinsulate boots.

Spicy food has no correlation with anything beyond personal taste.

I was a long time backpacker, but never a winter one. I don't like cold or snow, but have lived in places that had it. I have backpacked during the summer in some places, like Yellowstone, where the morning temp was below freezing, but daytime was in the 70's. Layering definitely needed for a long day hike.

Clearly you needed a big strong man explain those things because your silly little girlie brain can’t figure that shit out on its own.

That sounds reasonable. I try to do layers when I’m going to exercise in cold weather. And taking time to evaporate at the top makes good sense.

I don’t think I would actually call that mansplaining in my understanding of the word. Isn’t mansplaining when a man explains something in excruciating detail to a woman as though she were a retarded child, when she understands it perfectly already, and perhaps even grasps it better? What these two guys..Dave and Don are doing are spouting nonsense dressed up as advice,

I am a Caribbean Islander... know little of how to survive in cold weather. But I do My Best and Survive the Frozen because it is My Nature to Live and Survive to Sweat Another Day under a Scorching Sun. Looking forward to the change of Skin Tone in my Flesh once I move back to Puerto Rico.

Personally I think what you have done with all your personal experinces and trials and errors you know exactly what works best for you

how is this mansplaining? it sounds like a pretty typical human interaction (like another poster said, people always think what works for them, might work for you). I thought the cultural idiom about mansplaining included interrupting, unsolicited advice, and minimizing of the female ability to have her own thoughts/opinions/in depth under standing, because men get implied superiority in their knowledge. Not seeing it here, especially since you are agreeing with the guy and posting his assessment as your own. I don't know if there is a term for manshaming, or if its just butt hurt, but it sounds like youre just looking for excuses to whine about your last "relationship".

My thoughts are fck the cold... I need to escape it as fast as possible and only endure it to get from point A to B and that excercising in winter, particularily the frigid, bloody WINDY winters here, seems like cruel punishment. ;p

Damn girl, you need to tighten up your screening proccess

People will always, always tell you what works for them with the assumption it'll work for you. Sometimes it even does. Usually it's just bragging, sometimes humble bragging, but bragging nonetheless.

Being nightshade intolerant I like telling people who think eating spicy food does all kinds of miraculous things for you to go fuck themselves. It's one of the small pleasures in my life.