Originally Posted by
jefnvk
I'm going to disagree, at least for me personally, I don't find nylon trekking pants to be all that warm on their own. They're not the most packable thing, but I still have a pair of jeans with me.
If you're camping down into the 30s, I imagine you probably are going to want a pair of long underwear anyhow, I did those with jeans in Iceland and stayed nice and comfortable in the low 30s.
If jeans work for you, great. But I find they take too long to dry, take more space in the pack and weigh more than I want. Years ago before I could afford better equipment I wore jeans backpacking and canoeing.
When it gets cold, I put on the long underwear. On my Iceland trip there were at least two times when it was not raining but I put on my rain pants over the pants and long underwear to cut the cold wind.