In reviewing these jackets, it only makes sense to start with the original. I remember seeing the Patagonia Nano Air in the Patagonia store in Boulder, it is a completely different design. It is warm like a synthetic down jacket but it doesn’t have the garbage bag look and it Read more…
*UPDATE – Patagonia did not release a full-zip R1 without a hood for 2018/2019. According to Patagonia representatives, they expect that the full-zip R1 without a hood will return another season instead they’ll have a full-zip R1 techface this coming fall. (Read my Techface review here, suffice it to say, Read more…
I first came across the Arc’teryx Alpha FL shortly before heading out for my trip to the Annapurna region in Nepal in 2016. This the North Face jacket taught me that quality in a hard shell matters and it is usually worth the cost when this jacket failed me entirely.I Read more…