Rab Summit Extreme Jacket Review

The lower fill power of 750 fill reflects this but as an all round jacket for night time insulation or more extreme winter layering i find it hard to knock the microlight.

Rab summit extreme jacket review.

The rab summit extreme tent is a new version of the nearly identical outdoor designs summit extreme that we reviewed in 2005. Rab is proud to be supporting andrea mason on sea to summit extreme and with only a few weeks to go we caught up with andrea to ask why she was doing this unprecedented challenge how training was going and how she managed to break her arm not once but twice this year. Kicking around basecamp huddled on a bivi ledge in the alps or on a winter belay stance the summit jacket ticks all the boxes. The closer we got to the summit fatigue set in and the more automated our actions became.

Climb haul the bag belay off belay swap the rack repeat. The summit has been a staple of the rab range for many years and continues to. At 145 being the lowest i ve seen online. Every so often we would be lured out of our habitual cycle by the call to prayer playing loudly from the mosque in the village far below.

I have washed the jacket twice in nikwax downwash and it has fluffed back up nicely. Rab product review microlight summit jacket the great outdoors february 2019 rab product review microlight summit jacket wired for adventure september october 2019 rab product review muztag gtx jacket trek mountain november december 2019. Like the original the rab tent is truly focused. The microlight summit is a giant step forward in the way down jackets are constructed.

This makes the jacket water resistant and adds to wind resistance helping keep the weather out in extreme conditions. It is built for lightweight climbs in the most extreme alpine environments. Featuring 750fp goose down and the innovative pertex quantum infinity. The jacket is also excellently priced.

Over the last four or so years rab has been on top of the technical fabric world churning out shell after category smashing shell. That streak continues with the phantom which as the lightest waterproof breathable shell on the market has the weight of a trashbag poncho the rain protection of a hardshell and yet somehow the airy feel of a softshell. The ever popular summit jacket is the perfect solution for when it gets really cold. The microlight summit jacket by rab is a high performance 750 fill power goose down jacket that is remarkably warm and effective at shielding against the elements.