I concur with the caution about leather hats in wet weather -- they can be miserable once wet (and too often leather hats can be heavy, though the better ones are not).
Tilley's are great and you can't go wrong with them. Simple boonie hats are great too -- I've worn them happily on and off for years.
My favorite do-anything go-anywhere hat at the moment is a Stetson Rawhide, made from buffalo fur felt. I've had it in atrocious situations and it's stood up like a complete champ. It has pretty much everything I'm looking for in a hat.
If you do get a wide brimmed hat, heed this warning: you'll want one with a wire brim if you wear a high backpack with it. I used to have a nice felt river hat (quite a wide brim) but I couldn't wear it backpacking because the pack kept tapping the brim and working it off and I couldn't turn my head without hitting the pack with the brim.
If you have wire in the brim, you can just bend the back down while your backpack is on.
Boonies and tilleys have softer brims and this isn't a problem.
Tilley's are great and you can't go wrong with them. Simple boonie hats are great too -- I've worn them happily on and off for years.
My favorite do-anything go-anywhere hat at the moment is a Stetson Rawhide, made from buffalo fur felt. I've had it in atrocious situations and it's stood up like a complete champ. It has pretty much everything I'm looking for in a hat.
If you do get a wide brimmed hat, heed this warning: you'll want one with a wire brim if you wear a high backpack with it. I used to have a nice felt river hat (quite a wide brim) but I couldn't wear it backpacking because the pack kept tapping the brim and working it off and I couldn't turn my head without hitting the pack with the brim.
If you have wire in the brim, you can just bend the back down while your backpack is on.
Boonies and tilleys have softer brims and this isn't a problem.