These comforts however come with a trade off.
Patagonia piolet jacket.
The patagonia piolet jacket stands out for its wealth of comfort features and excellent breathability.
It was the heaviest jacket tested with the least packability.
The piolet jacket is for the outdoor enthusiast who does it all.
While it lives up to its billing as a versatile hardshell able to handle the worst weather we found it to be lower performing than the similar patagonia refugitive jacket and in our comparative testing it.
The fabric is also softer than your average hardshell and provides the most mobility allowing you to move with ease.
The triolet jacket is patagonia s do everything alpine and backcountry skiing jacket that uses standard gore tex 3 layer paired with a heavy and durable 75 denier polyester face fabric.
Our most simply designed yet highly versatile mountain to town jacket the departer jacket has a durable 2 layer gore tex face fabric for waterproof breathable and windproof protection a mesh lining to wick moisture and enhance mobility and all the critical snow features to keep you comfortable and moving freely in any type of weather.
Our jack of all things alpine the patagonia men s triolet jacket is a mountain focused hard shell built for heavy snow driving wind and pouring rain.