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Backpacker Magazine – 2010 Editors' Choice/Gear Guide
Toughest Gear: Arc'teryx Alpha SV Jacket
This Arc'teryx Alpha SV Jacket is overkill when you need it.
Arc'teryx Alpha SV (Julia Vandenoever)
Arc’teryx bills this Gore-Tex Pro Shell jacket as “our most durable shell”—and we could almost end the review there. That’s because our testers know two things about this company:
1) It builds some of the sturdiest stuff ever seen in the outdoors, and 2) It doesn’t do hyperbole. The Alpha SV gets our nod for the same reasons that Western Mountaineering (at right) earns high praise for its sleeping bags: Obsessive attention to detail, from the smallest seam reinforcement to the functionality of each cordlock placement, plus a penchant for achieving lightweight durability. When you get five years down the line and find yourself on some remote Alaska peak in a howling storm, you’ll be glad you spent the money. $599; 1 lb. 1 oz.; 4 men’s and 4 women’s sizes; arcteryx.com
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Perfect jacket. I own 3 and they're amazing. And I'd like to add a nod to the dude who rubbed sandpaper on a $500 jacket to see if it would hold up (slow, lone, echoing clap...)
Perfect jacket. I own 3 and they're amazing. And I'd like to add a nod to the dude who rubbed sandpaper on a $500 jacket to see if it would hold up (slow, lone, echoing clap...)
Perfect jacket. I own 3 and they're amazing. And I'd like to add a nod to the dude who rubbed sandpaper on a $500 jacket to see if it would hold up (slow, lone, echoing clap...)
Can't agree further with this review....this jacket is solid. For fun we rubbed a cold steel g10 handle (feels like sand paper) on the jacket to see how bombproof the microweave is. After some vigorous rubs, which would have torn up a normal jacket in my opinion, there was not even a scratch or any wear in the area. Awesome job Arc'Teryx...KEEP IT UP!!! Oh and btw I love that it is actually by our friends to the north (Made in Canada)!!!!!!!!!!
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