Product Description

You'll flip your lid with Bora Bora Booney! Great Columbia SportswearCompany hat features a broad brim for maximum shade, thick string to hold the hat in place, and mesh to help keep your head cool when the sun's a devil. Cloth.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #671 in Apparel & Accessories
• Size: One Size
• Color: *
• Brand: Columbia
• Fabric type: Cloth

Features

• Adjustable chin strap
• Terry sweatband
• Quck dry
• 100% nylong Perfecta Plus Cloth
• 100% polyester mesh tricot

Customer Reviews

a most practical hat
I do not like the appearance of boonie hats in general, so it is notable that I bought this hat. I did so because it is perhaps the perfect sun hat from a purely functional point of view. I live in the Southeast US where the summer sun is intense and it gets very hot and humid. This hat has the necessary 3 inch brim and UV blocking nylon panel on top of the crown for good sun protection while causing the minimum amount of discomfort by being feather-weight, fully ventilated in the crown, having a full sweat band of hydrophil and an ingenious (comfortable and effective) size adjustment mechanism. The rear of the brim does not bump into the shoulder when looking up or hunching forward. The supple, breezy crown feels like it is not even there. This hat is as close as you can get to the feeling of wearing no hat at all. For social occasions, I choose a different hat that looks better on me, but for strenuous, hot and sweaty activities when only performance counts, I grab the Bora Bora.

Note that I wear a hat size of 7-3/8 (the average man's size) and I wear my particular one-size-fits-all Bora Bora hat at the largest setting. I like to wear it a tad loose, but this hat may not fit head sizes larger than 7-1/2 very well. This hat is about the same size as other hats labeled "large" and can be sized down from there with the adjustment mechanism.

Tip: to get the wind cord out of the way without cutting it off, tuck it into the size adjustment loop.

[Update 5-26-2009: I am still loving this hat. Some of the color options now have a same-color mesh panel instead of black. These look better in my opinion and I no longer consider it to be a particularly fashion-challenged accessory. It also comes in a smaller "youth" size which fits my wife's smallish head perfectly, and also fits my 5 year old and can be sized down for my 3 year old. Still highly recommended. You can't find a better hat-- and I have even tried the famously pricy premium brand]

Keeps the sun off.
I bought this hat for use in the Mojave desert in the middle of summer. I love it!

It did everything I wanted in a hat: Kept the sun off.

As a bonus, the mesh vent allowed what little breeze there was to cool my head somewhat.

Great Hat!
This hat is great, it has a wide brim, crown ventilation and the size is adjustable. I can either wear the hat as is and adjust it to fit or I can wear a sweat band and adjust the hat to fit over it on hotter days (and we get plenty of those in Phoenix!)