Death to Swamp Thing!!! I love this jacket.

By Cody Coonradt February 17, 2009

I love this jacket. I have had other PTFE membrane jackets that breathed about as well as an asthmatic in a garbage sack. This thing is a revelation. No clammy inside. I rallied it hard through the Wasatch Trees today in 2 feet of fluff. Normally this leaves me feeling all sweaty around my shoulders, but this thing breathes so well. I'm 6'4" 200 with a shorter torso and longer arms. The Large fits perfectly. I threw my boards in the car packed with snow. When I stopped back at the office, the snow had melted into a puddle on the jacket. I picked it up, shook off the water and it was dry as a bone. One note: This is GORE Performance Shell, not XCR or Pro. Performance Shell is the new name for XCR (It is not rebranded Gore-Tex Classic) -- http://www.kokatat.com/goretex.asp?fabric=xcr. It's soft and quiet, but also held up to some heavy tree skiing with a lot of high speed scrapes. Not a mark on the jacket. I love this thing and would recommend it to anyone.

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