I was at first concerned regarding this being too hot for hiking, but the face coverage is good.  Then I realized that hat would be the last hat I would wear with the Arizona sun beating down on me for a hike or a horse ride. But the five or ten minutes it takes me to hang clothes or move a soaker hose around my garden this would be perfect... and it is.  Maybe in the middle of January, I would wear this hat for protection from the cold on a hike.  It's cute.