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It’s also not the lightest down jacket out there. The hood has a wired peak and is helmet compatible. Ditto if you’re moving about at more than a gentle sort of pace. It doesn’t mean you can’t wear it when it’s milder, but it feels like uncomfortable overkill. The flip-side of all this, is that the jacket has a sort of maximum temperature that I’d say subjectively is somewhere around zero degrees C or below.
RAB NEUTRINO ENDURANCE JACKET MENS ZIP
The other obvious leak point – the main zip – gets its own lightly insulated baffle strip to minimise heat-loss from that area. I’ve used warmer box-wall expedition jackets that feel like wearing a sleeping bag, but the Neutrino Pro’s fat down compartments mean that you don’t seem to lose a huge amount of heat through the stitch-through baffles – the effect is much more marked with micro-baffled jackets. There’s enough adjustment at the wrist cuffs to do an ‘over or under’ gig with gloves according to your preferences and the hem adjusters work just fine. No interior drop-pockets for your gloves, though there’s a handy inside check pocket to keep your phone / Mars Bar / random stuff warm and happy.Īt the other end of the use spectrum, micro-fleece lined hand-pockets add a touch of luxury for that mid-winter chippy queue experience. The double-ended main zip helps here too allowing easy tying-in with minimal faff. You get plenty of facial protection too, up to nose level, so you can properly snuggle down on some icefall in a belay stance and watch the clouds drift by – when you’re not being showered with falling ice chips that is. It’s also worth knowing that the fat, down-filled hood with wired peak, is built to accommodate a helmet, though it also works just fine without one. It’s long enough for some extended crotch coverage too, always welcome on a chilly day. For me it worked nicely over a mid-layer top, but would also cope with a trim-fitting shell in high mountain belay jacket mode. It feels reassuringly substantial rather than feathery light and vulnerable. The jacket’s really too warm for rainy days.
RAB NEUTRINO ENDURANCE JACKET MENS PRO
The Pertex Quantum Pro – it used to be called Endurance – has a water-resistant coating to shrug off the odd tent spill or glacial / icefall drip. There’s around 230g and it fills the fat down compartments nicely in a dense, air-trapping sort of way that gives a near-instant feeling of warmth when you pull it on. It starts with the high-lofting, ethically-sourced, 800 fill-power, Nikwax, water-resistant goose down fill. Putting the Rab Neutrino Pro to good use in the Peak District. Of course this is the internet, so you can have as many words as you want, but refinement seems to sum it up nicely.
If you had to choose one word, it would probably be ‘refinement’. Which to be fair, you’d expect from a jacket priced a tenner shy of £300 from a brand like Rab. It’s not quite as warm as a full-on box-wall expedition monster down jacket, but not that far off, and about as warm as most of us will ever actually need most of the time.Įxcept it’s not quite, because on top of all that, the Rab Neutrino Pro is also very nicely specced and designed, which means that in addition to being warm, it’s also a very nice thing. In a different league to any micro-baffled jacket I’ve used. Or, and don’t ask how I know this, sat in sub-zero conditions outside Munich airport eating sausage and chips to pass the time at an outside bar, while everyone around you shivers.
Or in a Scottish bothy in deep mid-winter. It would be right at home watching the sun rising over Everest from Kalar Patar. Rab Neutrino ProīEST FOR: staying warm when it’s really cold and you’re stationaryĪll that and at 570g for a medium, not too ridiculously heavy to cart around with you either.
RAB NEUTRINO ENDURANCE JACKET MENS PORTABLE
A whopping great dose of portable warmth that you can take out wherever you are and in anything short of seriously cold conditions, and rely on to keep you comfortably toasty. In a slightly more literal world, the Rab Neutrino Pro would be called something like the ‘Rab Big (but not too big) Warm Coat’ because hey, ultimately that’s what it is.
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