ProView – HIMALI Women’s Ascent Hoodie
It’s a beautiful jacket, performs exceptionally, and makes packing for objectives a breeze.
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ProView – Outdoor Research SuperStrand LT Jacket
The SuperStrand LT delivers a superb synthetic jacket with high warmth to weight, durability, and most importantly versatility.
ProView – Mountain Hardwear Women’s High Exposure Gore-Tex C-Knit Jacket
My first impression of the High Exposure C-Knit Jacket was that it was impressively thin and flexible. My other backcountry shells in the same category are stiffer and a little bulkier – this one feels like a more buttery raincoat.…
ProView – Mountain Hardwear Women’s High Exposure Gore-Tex C-Knit Jacket
I’m a mountain instructor and guide working in the Pacific Northwest. As the seasons change and I’m well into the routine of spending my days in the mountains, it becomes increasingly important that my gear works just as hard as…
ProView – Outdoor Research Men’s Skyward II Jacket and Pants
With a very dry winter thus far in Colorado I can’t say I was able to get ample face shots testing the Skyward II Jacket and Pants. Instead I was able to do one better, I took the Skyward II…
ProView – HIMALI Women’s Altocumulus Down Jacket 2.0
When I first got the Women’s Altocumulous down jacket I marveled at how light it was. In fact, I was wondering how something so light could possibly be warm. Well it didn’t take long to realize that this is a…
ProView – Rab Torque Light Pants
With COVID protocols letting up here around Golden, Colorado, I was stoked to take the Rab Torque Light pants out and get on some much-needed rock. So I took them to the local climbing Mecca of Eldorado Canyon State Park…
ProView – HIMALI Men’s Ascent Hoodie
The Himali Ascent Stretch Hoodie has become one of my all-time favorite pieces of outdoor gear to date! I rarely rate something 5 stars since most things can be improved upon. However, Himali hit the nail directly on the head…
ProView – Rab Torque Pant
Have you ever observed the guy that is unabashedly walking around the grocery store wearing what he obviously wore to the crag every day for the last week? The pants are ripped to shreds and covered in chalk—most often with…
ProView – Mountain Hardwear Women’s Boundary Line Gore-Tex Insulated Pant
Adventure often begins where the resort’s highest lift ends. Vanlifing through California, Nevada, and Colorado in early season conditions, the Boundary Line pants facilitated every powdery, icy, slushy snow interaction in my westerly migration of December 2019. Early season snowpack…