I love my balaclava and I like it for sun protection, but in the summer I don’t want to be wearing a black fleece balaclava for sun protection. Searching on the internet I found this solution: the coolmax summer buff. You can use it a bunch of different ways; what a useful thing this seems to be. Watch the video for instructions on how to turn it in to a pirate cap and a lot of different styles. Someone on the internet said that they hauled a person up with one of these.
I have one of these and a winter version, too. They’re great.