Monday, 4 October 2010

Trail Magazine - Waterproof Jacket Test

The New issue of Trail Magazine (Nov'10) has just landed in the office. This months issue features their Annual Waterproof Jacket test by Gear Guru Graham Thompson. Graham tested 87 jackets for this years review across 4 categories - General, Winter, Multi activity and Lightweight.


4 Mountain Equipment jackets - Kongur, Morpheus, Seraph and Firefox were put to the test.....

The Kongur Jacket came out Best in Test for the 5th year running in the Winter Jackets category and was the first Jacket ever to get 5/5 back in 2005. Graham commented highly on the longer cut, Mountain HC hood, New Stratum Pocket System and our New Gore-Tex Pro Shell Ascendor II and Tenacity fabrics.
Read more about the Kongur here

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The Men's Morpheus and Women's Seraph Jackets scored an impressive 4/5 in the General Jacket category and were the only Gore-Tex Pro Shell jackets to get in the top 10. Both jackets scored highly on fit, our Mountain hood, New Stratum Pocket System and our New Gore-Tex Pro Shell Ascendor II fabric. Read more about the Morpheus here and Seraph here

The 4th and final jacket to be put to the test was the Firefox Jacket in the Multi-Activity category again was the only Gore-Tex Pro Shell model to make the top 10 and scored 4/5. The Firefox got a great review on breathability, fit, pocket size and our Mountain hood. Read more about the Firefox here


You can check out the whole in depth test by grabbing a copy from your local newsagent/outdoor retailer now also check out The Trail website livefortheoutdoors.co.uk