Rain clothes for extreme weather sketches

Drawing and text by Frits Ahlefeldt

The weather of the future might be very different from the weather we are used to, when out on the hiking trails. Climate experts talk about “extreme weather” with huge and sudden changes in weather patterns and amounts of rain. I have looked at and sketched up examples of how we humans traditionally designed rain clothes, and how some designers are finding new ways  to do it, proposing radical and new designs for the future:

See the Project and sketched examples traditional and future rain gear for hiking here