I need an active (breathable, quick drying) jacket.

NorthCascades
NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
edited December 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Weather forecast in the Chelan Sawtooths this weekend is for cold winds and a foot of snow. This has me excited about ski season, not quite around the corner, but coming.

I have some excellent base layers, a couple fleeces that don't breathe very well and get clammy when I sweat in them, down which is just too warm to ski in, and some windbreakers and GTX. Ok, I have a jacket problem. 🤪

What I don't have is something I can wear to keep warm without overheating, that deals well with sweat. It takes about 10 minutes to warm up when I ski, and each year those minutes get more unpleasant. We have trails where you can climb for a long time, get sweaty on the way up, and then enjoy a quick descent where you're wet and not working, so not making heat. Down loses its insulation power when it gets wet, so it's not a great option for this. Same thing with peak bagging in the shoulder seasons.

Anybody have a silver bullet?

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  • Burnabychick2014
    Burnabychick2014 Posts: 84 Member
    Sorry, I don’t think the “silver bullet” exhists. I live in south west British Columbia & backcountry ski. On the ups, on the warmer days, I start cold until I heat up sans maybe even a jacket. That being said, I don’t wear fleece, but merino wool. I own one down jacket - for very cold & dry trips. On colder days, on the ups, it is merino wool & a synthetic puffy from MEC on the top. On the bottom, merino wool undies, merino long johns & goretex bib pants with full zips.

    On the downs, I don my gortex jacket, a puffy and let it rip.

    For peak bagging in the off seasons - merino wool top. I carry two puffies. Bottoms I wear thicker pants - MEC used to call them Ferrata pants. I forget what they are called now.
  • sgt1372
    sgt1372 Posts: 3,997 Member
    Anything made of Gortex or a similar material.
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