Thursday, February 2, 2012

Uniqlo Super light down puffy

Even though we are touring the Coast of California there will be times at night on camp site where the temperature may drop to really low 40s and even 30s when we will be at elevation. Both my wife and I will have gore tex rain jackets. I have a simple Marmot Precip jacket and my wife has a much higher quality jacket by a European manufacturer. But for the moments where you need to line the inside of the gore tex these babies were a tough value to beat. High quality goose full not as densely packed as a few other jackets I had looked at but at 75$ they blew the doors off the competition. The Patagonia jacket that I almost bought was 200$ and with the heavier fill came additional weight. The unique is around 15 ounces and packs into a stuff sac that takes up next to no space. Both of our jackets can for in an xs stuff sack.
Both my wife and I are bringing one. Hers has a good. Mine doesn't. I have noticed that ok its own in wind quite a bit comes through but under a light gore tex liner it is superb. The outter shell is pretty light but so was the Patagonia.

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