Description
Suit up for the cold.
Terms And Conditions
This Usage Agreement (the "Agreement") governs your conduct while using various services on the web site Backcountry.com and its affiliate web sites (collectively, the "Site"). All references to "we," "us," and "our" shall mean Backcountry.com and all references to "you" and "your" shall mean the user of the Site and Site Services. This Agreement applies to various services and activities on the Site as well as to gear review and product ratings (collectively, "Site Services"). Please read this Agreement carefully.
BY ACCESSING, BROWSING, AND USING THE SITE, ANY SITE SERVICES AND OTHER SERVICES THEREIN, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS AGREEMENT AND ITS TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY SUBSEQUENT MODIFICATION THEREOF, DO NOT ACCESS, BROWSE OR OTHERWISE USE THE SITE OR SITE SERVICES, INCLUDING THE SUBMISSION OF ANY REVIEWS OR COMMENTS.
Your use of the Site is governed by this Agreement and any other agreements and/or terms of use adopted by Backcountry.com and/or its affiliates. This Agreement shall govern in the event of, and to the extent of, any inconsistency with the Site. For more information on our privacy practices, read the Privacy Policy to understand our practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal information on the Site and with respect to Site Services.
Any comments, reviews (including gear reviews and product ratings), posts, feedback, questions, answers, notes, messages, images, video, audio, materials, documents, data, graphics, ideas, suggestions or other communications (collectively, "User Content") you submit on the Site are not private or proprietary. By submitting User Content on or through the Site, you grant, assign and transfer to Backcountry.com all of your rights, title and interest, including without limitation, all intellectual property rights and moral rights, in and to such User Content. To the extent the preceding assignment and transfer is ineffective, you hereby grant Backcountry.com an irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual right and license to use, copy, modify, adapt, display, publish, archive, store, distribute, reproduce and create derivative works based upon such User Content, in any form, media, software or technology of any kind now existing or developed in the future.
By submitting such User Content on or through the Site, you are confirming that (a) you are the sole author of the User Content and the User Content originated with you and not copied in whole or in part from any other work; (b) you have obtained all necessary permissions associated with the User Content, including without limitation permissions relating to copyrights, trademarks, rights of publicity and/or rights of privacy; (c) the User Content does not contain hate speech or profanity and is not unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, libelous, obscene, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable, an invasion of another's privacy, or otherwise in violation of this Agreement; (d) that you are not a minor and have the legal right and capacity to enter into and comply with this Agreement; (e) such User Content does not and will not, in any way, violate or breach any of the terms of this Agreement; and (f) Backcountry.com shall not in any circumstances be required to pay or incur any sums to any person or entity as a result of its use or exploitation of the User Content.
With respect to your conduct on the Site or while using the Site Services, you agree not to: (a) attempt to disguise the origin of any User Content transmitted to the Site Services whether through the Site or any third party site; (b) act in any manner that negatively affects other users' ability to use the Site and Site Services; (c) impersonate any person or entity, including without limitation, a manufacturer or owner of any product, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; (d) interfere with the Site or Site Services, or servers or networks connected to the Site or Site Services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies, or regulations of networks connected to the Site or Site Services; (e) upload, post, or otherwise transmit any User Content that with respect to the Site Services: (i) is not relevant to the product, service, person or entity being reviewed; (ii) you do not have a right to transmit under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (by way of example but not limitation, inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements); (iii) contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment; or (iv) is unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation.
By submitting any such User Content on or through the Site, you grant Backcountry.com permission to use your name, alias and any other information (as provided by you) to attribute such User Content to you. Without limiting the generality of the previous sentence, and subject to our Privacy Policy, you authorize Backcountry.com, its affiliates, and sublicensees to share the User Content across all affiliated Web sites, and to use your name and any other information in connection with its use of such User Content, as they may choose. You also grant Backcountry.com and its affiliates the right to use any material, information, ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in such User Content. We are not responsible for the similarity of any of our Content or programming in any media to User Content submitted by you. Any and all rights granted in this section are granted without the need for any compensation to you in any form.
User Content does not reflect the views of Backcountry.com, and Backcountry.com does not represent or guarantee the truthfulness, accuracy, completeness, timeliness, integrity, quality or reliability of any User Content, nor does Backcountry.com endorse or support any opinions expressed in any User Content. In no event shall Backcountry.com have or be construed to have any responsibility or liability for or in connection with any User Content, Any gear reviews and/or product ratings submitted on the Site, if displayed, are displayed for entertainment and informational purposes only. Under no circumstances will Backcountry.com be liable in any way for any User Content, including but not limited to, any errors or omissions in any User Content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any User Content posted, emailed or otherwise transmitted via the Site or Site Services.
If Backcountry.com determines, in our sole and absolute discretion, that you or any User Content you submit violates this Agreement, we reserve the right, at any time, without notice and without limiting any and all other rights Backcountry.com may have under this Agreement, to: (a) refuse to allow you to submit further User Content; (b) remove and delete your User Content; (c) revoke your registration and right to use the User Content Submission Features; and (d) use any technological, legal, operational or other means available to enforce the terms of this Agreement, including, without limitation, blocking specific IP addresses or deactivating your registration, access to the Site and Site Services using your e-mail address, and your user name and password. Without limiting the foregoing, once User Content is submitted to the Site, Backcountry.com may take any or no action with respect to such User Content, including without limitation, deleting, editing, modifying, rejecting, or refusing to post such User Content, but is under no obligation to offer you the opportunity to edit, delete or otherwise modify User Content once it has been submitted. Backcountry.com shall have no duty to attribute authorship of User Content to you and shall not be obligated to enforce any form of attribution by third parties.
If, despite the foregoing assignment and transfer of rights in the User Content, it is determined that you retain moral rights (including the rights of attribution or integrity) in the User Content, you hereby declare that: (a) you do not require that any personally identifying information be used in connection with the User Content or any derivative works of or upgrades or updates thereto; (b) you have no objection to the publication, use, modification, deletion and exploitation of the User Content by Backcountry.com or its licensees, successors or assigns; (c) you forever waive and agree not to claim or assert any entitlement to any and all moral rights of an author in any of the User Content; and (d) you forever release Backcountry.com, and its licensees, successors and assigns from any claims that you could otherwise assert against Backcountry.com by virtue of any such moral rights.
You are prohibited from violating the security of any system or network compromising the Site or the Site Services, including but not limited to the following: (a) unauthorized access to or use of data, systems, or networks, including any attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the Site or Site Services or to breach security or authentication measures; (b) unauthorized monitoring of data or traffic on the Site or of the Site Services; (c) interference with the Site or Site Services including without limitation, any type of flooding technique or deliberate attempt to overload the system such as denial or service attacks; (d) forging of a message header or any part of a message header; or (e) using manual or electronic means to avoid any use or access limitation placed on this Site or the Site Services. Such violations may result in criminal or civil liability.
Backcountry.com reserves the right to report any activity or persons that Backcountry.com suspects has violated any law or regulation to appropriate law enforcement officials, regulators, or other appropriate third parties (including the disclosure of appropriate subscriber information). Backcountry.com may also cooperate with appropriate law enforcement agencies to assist in the investigation and prosecution of any illegal conduct. Indirect or attempted violations of this Agreement and actual or attempted violations thereof by a third party on behalf of any user shall be considered violations of this Agreement by such user.
BACKCOUNTRY.COM DOES NOT ENDORSE THE USER CONTENT, IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE USER CONTENT AND SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY TO ANY PERSON OR ENTITY (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, PERSONS WHO MAY USE OR RELY ON SUCH USER CONTENT) FOR ANY LOSS, DAMAGE (WHETHER ACTUAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR OTHERWISE), INJURY, CLAIM, LIABILITY OR OTHER CAUSE OF ANY KIND OR CHARACTER BASED UPON OR RESULTING FROM ANY USER CONTENT PROVIDED THROUGH THIS WEB SITE.
Share your thoughts
What do you think of the
MontBell Alpine Light Down Parka - Men's
? Share a...
Best balance available
Dan McKeague
Member since
You won't find a better down jacket for balancing weight against warmth. I agree with the other reviewers in that you wouldn't want to use this anywhere that could result in easy tears. I'm 6'2" 185 and the large fits perfectly for my purposes.
Seems worthwhile thus far
James Howard
Member since
I've only used this jacket a couple of times so far, so this isn't meant to be a definitive review, but from my initial impressions, I've been pleased. The jacket itself has two exterior hand pockets lined with a soft fleece that keep those mitts warm and two interior pockets that aren't meant to hold anything particularly heavy, but will hold small items, tools, etc. Personally, I've decided to keep the included stuff sack (unattached from jacket - for some, that may be a deciding factor in purchase, so just heads up) in one of those pockets for safe keeping. According to Mont.bell, the shell is rated as 30-denier, and while I haven't had to tromp through any heavy brush or potentially damaging flora with it just yet, I would not. Just throw a light softshell over it and you'll be dandy. In any case, it's not the smallest down jacket I've seen, but after loading it up into the stuff sack, it will be a lot easier to pack down I'm sure. Also, while I normally buy things in a small, I had a buddy who recently bought the Mont.bell Ultralight Down Parka in a size Small and he said it was a bit short on the length for his taste, so I decided on a size Medium when I purchased this, and it does seem smart to buy a size larger than what you would normally get for gear tops. I'm personally 5'8" and around 140lbs and it rests about 1 1/2"- 2" below my waistline which suits me fine because all my other tops in Smalls rest at or below the same level as it, thus alleviating my worry of the bottom edge of the jacket itself getting ripped to shreds.
I am 5 '11 "220.5 LBS thickish. can not...
Alex
Member since
I am 5 '11 "220.5 LBS thickish. can not decide L or X l?
Matt Towner
Member since
I'm 180 lbs and wear a large, so you will probably be most comfortable in the XL. It would be best to measure you chest and waist an use the size chart to be sure. If you have any questions, the Backcountry staff are very helpful and the live chat service is a very quick way to get a response.
Really nice, worth every dollar
Andrew Rogan
Member since
- Gender: Male
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
I bought this to replace a Golite 800 fill down jacket I had. I was really impressed with the Golite, it compressed well and was really warm and I beat the heck out of it. Had some leakage problems but that's about it.This go around I decided to add a hood and also bump up the price by about $75...
It was completely worth it.The fit is perfect, just a bit bigger than an athletic fit on me. I'm 5'10" and 145lbs and got the small. It's incredibly warm, I was really impressed with that. Just a t-shirt under and I was good to go. Cuts wind a lot better than my previous one as well. I think my biggest pro about this jacket is that the construction is phenomenal. There is no leakage. I haven't had any at all. I'm very impressed and will try more Montbell prodcuts in the future.
I got the adobe colored one which I don't see here anymore but it looks great to me.
Really freaking warm
Taco Bean
Member since
I bought it simply for casual use, and am impressed by its wind resistance and how toasty you can get under its hood. Great for travelling, it compresses well into an accompanying pouch (it does not pack down into its own pocket). If I'm just walking around town with this jacket and a warm baselayer, it needs to be well below 30F or I'll overheat.
The fabric is alarmingly thin and I am paranoid about its durability, but this is my second winter with no problems. A few times I've come across feathers but no obviously damaged seams.
I am 6'0, 160lbs, and the medium is cut the way I want it: almost trim if I'm wearing a thick sweater underneath. Doesn't fall much past my waist. If you prefer your coats on the roomy size or need extra length, you might size up.
I agree the fabric is shiny, but the olivegreen version of this jacket masks the shine and doesn't have that garbage bag look.
It's annoying that there is no collar hang loop, but not annoying enough to lose a rating star.
Good first impressions
Kam Ilkhanipour
Member since
- Gender: Male
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
Got this for Christmas and I think it is going to be the perfect addition to my clothing arsenal. I already love the UL down jacket for under my shell when resort skiing, but wanted something warmer for over the shell when ski touring, and also double as an around the town warm jacket. Much warmer than my UL jacket, feels more substantial, the material is definitely stronger, but still need to be somewhat careful with it. The hood is a nice fit.
I went with a L, to go over my hardshell etc, but wear a M in UL jacket for a more trim fit. I could go with an M here if I was going to wear it over light layers....5'11" 178lbs.
Toasty Warm, Compact, & Cut for Comfort
Austin H.
Member since
- Gender: Male
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
I purchased this jacket to use as a layering piece for ski touring. So far I've found that it lives up to the packability, warmth, and weight claims. This jacket takes up limited space when its packed inside its stuff sack and it lofts up quickly once unpacked.
As pointed out in other reviews, the shell material of this jacket is SHINY and thin (although I trust the overall durability). Massive interior pockets give you a great place to store liner gloves, a hat, or similar items. I have some concerns about the main zipper jamming after a season or two of use, but we'll see if that pans out.
I'm 5'11, 165lb and the large fits perfectly. I find that it's slightly longer than my (L) TNF rain shell and my (L) Outdoor Research touring shell. This is worth considering for layering.
At the end of the winter I'll report back with more thoughts.
this jacket...
erip122715
Member since
- Gender: Male
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
I bought this jacket for the purpose of colder climates and as a mid-layer to go under my gor-tex ski jacket. Unfortunately, I haven't had the chance to take it skiing, but overall the jacket is misleadingly warm. The jacket feels and looks very thin, but so far, it has held up and I have been comfortably warm.
6'0" & 170 lbs - M is just what I am looking for (can fit a good layer on under). I have about a 6'2" wingspan and length of sleeves is just right. Tried on L and it wasn't terribly too big, just preferred the fit of the M.
Update: Took this up to the mountains for skiing and used it as a midlayer as originally stated. Temps were in the single digits above zero. I was nice and toasty...except for my face, but not the jackets fault :). Definitely recommend this jacket.
all the right features
Benjamin Vincent
Member since
- Gender: Male
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
Where this jacket goes right for me is the ability to adjust it to my particular shape. The hood is the best! I have a very short neck, so most hoods go up to far and end up coming down over my eyes. This jacket has a velcro tab on the back of the hood allowing me to pull it back up and out of my face, along with the cinch cords around the face. A drawstring hem and elastic cuffs seal out the cold. Fleece lining in the pockets and fleece in the collar (a first I've seen on this type of jacket) are welcome additions. Construction is good, uses a 30D ripstop nylon. Many jackets in this category use 15 or 20D , the little extra thickness doesn't add much weight but makes it more sturdy. The included stuff sack is nice, a minor complaint in that I prefer the design where you can stuff the jacket into it's own pocket instead of a sack that can get lost, but no biggie. This is my first item from Mont Bell and I will be looking their way again in the future.
what is the length of shoulder for M size...
Lynn
Member since
what is the length of shoulder for M size and Lsize? My chest falls under M and waist falls under L. Would like to find out if the waist is tight fit?
can someone post some pics of the terra...
bobp116719
Member since
can someone post some pics of the terra cotta color?
Alexander Sepulvida
Member since
Here you go man. Hope it's not too late :)
What is the back length of this jacket -...
Chris Baldwin
Member since
What is the back length of this jacket - does it cover the backside?
Wally Phillips
Member since
Hi Chris Baldwin,
Thanks for your question. The center back length on the Medium size of this jacket is 26.8 inches and it will change by around 1 inch per size so the Large center back length with be 27.8 inches.
So I purchased this grey color one, would...
hegaveitall
Member since
So I purchased this grey color one, would this color be the least shiny color out of them all? I like the black best but worried it would be more shiny. Thanks.
Joshua Sigmon
Member since
Honestly, it's not too shiny. I have the black, and no one has commented on it being shiny either. The stock photo is actually a really good representation of how it looks.
close up
hegaveitall
Member since
new color Sky Grey
hegaveitall
Member since
Can anyone attest to the size of this...
Kam Ilkhanipour
Member since
Can anyone attest to the size of this jacket to the UL down jackets? I have both a L, and now a M in the UL...lost some weight I guess. The M fits perfectly, as a midlayer, but I'd like to get the AL jacket to throw over my hard/softshell at ski transitions, or to wear around town...probably L?
I'm 5'11" 175lbs.
Stephen M. Bennett
Member since
If you want to use this as a piece layer over everything else I would opt for the larger size. It's exactly what I want to do with this jacket and I plan on sizing up.
Chad Poindexter
Member since
I find that the Apline Light is sized bigger than the UL Down Inner pieces. I have XL in both, and wish I would have sized down with the Apline Light. The fit on the Alpine light is definitely bigger.
As far as layering over other pieces, that depends on what you are layering it over, but typically I layer the UL Down Inner Parka over a Capilene 2 long sleeve crew and then a Patagonia R1. The Down Inner fits perfectly layered over these. The Alpine Light has more than enough room to layer over these and a large would have been better IMO.
Does anyone have the "Pure Indigo" color?...
hegaveitall
Member since
Does anyone have the "Pure Indigo" color? Can you post a photo in natural light w/o a flash? I don't want a shiny jacket but some of these manuf pics look real shiny. Thanks.
Review flagged as I'm 5' 11", 220.5 lbs. what size you will advise?. Click here to view.
Amazing Jacket!
agu3831959
Member since
This is a great jacket, confortable, light, well designed and constructed, Perfect for cold alpine projects where weight counts! Interior pockets are great to prevent water bottles from freezing.
I have been using it for 3 months and i havent seen a feather coming out!
If you have a Mountain Hardwear jacket, order the same size!
For sizing, I'm 5'9""' 195lbs athletic...
Ryan4756
Member since
For sizing, I'm 5'9""' 195lbs athletic build......whould a large be restricting in anyway? What about when reaching overhead?
Dave Marcus
Member since
A large should fit you well, with plenty of room to move about.
Chad Poindexter
Member since
Yep, a large would work. I am 5'10" and 200 lbs and went with an XL. It fits, but it is a little big... not overly so, but enough that I know a large would have been a good fit. (I kept my XL just so I wouldn't have to go through the hassle of returning for a different size.)
Alexander Sepulvida
Member since
Agreed. I'm 5'6" 170 and I'm very comfortable in a medium.
View all contributions... Be patient, it might take a while.

erip122715
Member since