Arc'teryx Minuteman Pant - Men's

These are a great goretex pant. They are a great fit for any activity so you can use them for skiing or backpacking. They are a pretty simple design with stuff you need like taped seams, strong zippers, a few pockets, and ankle cuff gaiters and nothing you do not need. A great pant that will last forever with regular use and decent care.

I use these pants skiing, boarding, and snowshoeing, they have been stellar. The pockets are poorly designed, but not a big tragedy. The fabric is bombproof and the pattern is sewn in an active cut.

I did not buy the pants for skiing. I bought it because I like the light weight and wind/rain proof gore-tex materials after I bought one for my wife. It really kept me warm (with under garment) in a freezing temperature. No wind get through at all. We went to Colorado for vacation in late Oct, 07, it was a big plus to shed the sand storms and wind. It is light but tough, some thing that will last more than rest of my life. Highly recommend it. The only two complains, small pocket. Cant use it for any thing and the snow powder cuff need some thing to roll it up if now skiing.

These are all you need for a do everything bomproof set of all weather pants. The powder cuffs and the drawcord on the ankles completely seals out the pow! And then if you just wanna run around in the woods you can sinch'em up so you won't have fabric under your heels. The ultimate set-up is to throw on some medium weight thermals and the Minuteman pants and your good year round any temps. Major draw back are the pockets - pretty much useless. Learned my lesson with these poorly placed/designed pockets. If you take off and forget to zip up, whatever was in the pocket is definitely gone....because the pocket has no depth and it sits on your your thigh (zipper parallel to your leg) If only someone coulda thought to make the pocket zipper go left to right instead of up & down. Then you could drop something in and not have it roll out!

This is my first season with the Arc'teryx Minuteman (also with an Arc'teryx Alpha SV). The Minuteman is a fabulous pant. Superior quality of material and construction that I've come to expect from Arc'teryx, that blows away all other pants I've skied with (Spyder and TNF recently). The fit is fantastic, and thank you Arc'teryx for being the only (as far as I know) manufacturer to bring out a Short line of XCR hard shell pants - the Short S fits me perfectly (5'7"). Count me as an Arcteryx convert. Man is it expensive, but it is so worth it.

As usual, these pants are bomber Arc'teryx. They're indestructible and nothing is getting in. There's no insulation to them and the pockets are completely useless, but the material is amazingly lightweight, completely waterproof and I'm pretty sure it'll last longer than I will. I couldn't recommend these more.

my husband loves his new pants, the quality is top rate!