What do you bring to canoe country to top your top?

My collection includes a Tilley hat, which is my favorite, although granted it's more money than most sensible people spend on a hat. Also a baseball style cap, like the great BWCA.COM hat that Adam sent me... it works better than the Tilley under the hood of my rain jacket. Also a fleece stocking cap for sleeping on cold nights; the fleece is warmer than acrylic knit and less scratchy than wool. I guess I also have to list the bug headnet. I've thought about getting a rain hat like the Outdoor Research Sombrero... anyone use those? Don't own a toque... yet.

Spring Summer Fall-Filson wide brimmed hat
Late Fall, Winter-stocking cap

The stocking cap comes with all the time but usually stays in the top pocket of the pack, but its there if it gets cold. I pulled it out on a July night in 2004 when it got below freezing one night and I wanted to watch the northern lights on Crooked Lake. I wore long johns and a stocking cap that night-was glad I had them along.

Two hats... My faithful bwca.com cap (2nd one, wore the other out) and my Tilley... (hated by most of those who don't own them)

Bruce

Baseball cap with a stupid saying on it that my friends are usually sick of reading by the 2nd or 3rd day and hopefully its an obnoxious color. new one every trip

Normal everyday - just a cheap wide brimmed booney hat.
Occasionally - ball cap
Cold nights - fleece stocking cap or Fleece ear band (embroidered with "paddlefasterpastor" by my daughter).

Have thought about the Tilley, but so far have not justified the cost.

PFP
Steve

And speaking of cost, my favorite is a beaver fur felt Stetson, but I bought mine for twenty bucks at an antique shop.

I take two. A ball cap "Murphy's Irish Ale" which is going to be replaced with my BWCA.com (Thanks again Adam - I consider it to be an honor...!) and my old Indiana Jones fedora. I can't tell you how many compliments I get on that ratty old hat.

Andy

I take my tilley, T5 model I think, on every trip. Got to have the chin stap for all those windy days. Tilley came out with a lighter weight model that is real similar a couple of years ago. It sure would be nice to replace mine with the lighter weight one but I dont think my original one will ever wear out. For the cold days and for sleeping a wool watch hat.

The only reason I have a Tilley, I would never justify the cost for myself, My wife bought it for my birthday after she saw me looking at one and wishing out loud... Gosh, I Love that woman!!!

Bruce

I use a jungle hat from Vietnam with Vietnamese 1LT officer insignia. It is starting to show wear so bought a backup at Ely Army surplus several years ago, bur have not used it yet. It has gone on 23 trips.

I used to wear a wide, stiff brimmed hat. I don't know brand. I still have it and wear it sometimes. But over the last few years I've gone mostly with a baseball-type cap. My concern is sun protection for the back of my neck and tips of my ears, so I've started tucking a bandana under the cap so it hangs down, protecting those areas.

Sometimes I simply tie the bandana on my head pirate syle. :-)

I also bring a stocking/watch cap. Black. I think some kind of synthetic.

If it is colder, and especially during hunting season in the fall, AND especially especially if it is moose season; I wear my blaze orange Stormy Kromer cap. Gotta be seen by those hunters even if you're not hunting yourself!

I love my Filson. It's the Tin Cloth Packer Hat. It's my all around outdoors hat. I take it backpacking, fly fishing, camping, etc. - basically everywhere.

a cebela's gortex boonie and the most ugly, wornout, comfortable fitted baseball cap i have in the closet. Jan

I have a full brimmed hat which I bouth around 12 years or so ago. The brand is "Ultimate Hat". It is oil skin and has a piece of foam in the top to make sure it floats. The sides snap up to the hat. I have really liked this hat. It can get a bit hot at times so I also have a bwca.com hat along as well. I tried to buy another one like it for my father-in-law but they no longer make the stiff oil skin hat which is too bad.

bwca.com caps? Hey Adam, where to we get those?

Cotton baseball cap for on the water, because i can soak it in the lake and use it to keep my head cool, and a fleece hat for at night around the fire.

Bandana + Sunglasses on the water, and a stocking cap for chilly nights

Full brimmed hats! Keeps the hooks out of my ears when flyfishing. Military boonie hats as a spare, regular use, Filson Tin Cloth/Shelter Cloth, good head armor! Doubles as a perch for birds!
Paul and friend! butthead

I agree with butthead, full brimmed hats work best, here is a picture of my son and I and he wished that he had a bigger hat...sunburn, and bugs ..

I love my Tilley hat, I was actually just looking at their website to order another one. I wear it whenever I'm doing work outside. Great hat, takes a beating and looks good too.

Matt

Wide brim sheds rain and sun

Ball cap for hanging out

Stocking cap for the cold

Simms gore tex full brim for cool/rainy weather (incidentally the only piece of that rain suit I could afford)
A cabela's xpg packable baseball cap for warm weather (glad I have 2, those boneheads from bass pro discontinued the whole xpg line when they took over).
Stocking cap for those cold nights watching the light up bobber.