Rab Electron Jacket Womens Review

The electron has all the ingredients you might ask for in a high end insulated jacket.

Rab electron jacket womens review. The electron jacket is a mid weight technical down jacket with a water resistant pertex outer shell designed for year round climbing and mountain use. I don t so i couldn t check it out but the hood looked big enough to fit a helmet. Chest pockets are almost alway. The pertex endurance outer fabric is wind and water resistant and feels hard wearing.

Rab electron jacket words by harry bradbury introduction. When you don t wear any there is an option to decrease the volume of the hood with a strap and velcro closure behind the hood. It is perfect for casual wear and everyday use as well as climbing hiking skiing travel expedition winter camping touring alpine and mountaineering. As part of our ascent range the electron pro jacket is designed for winter insulation alpine climbing and year round mountain use.

Rab electron jacket the fill. The variable size baffles with smaller baffles down the sides and under the arms make for a. The rab electron jacket is prepared for women who use helmets too. The electron uses high lofting 800 fill power european goose down which is impressive in itself but like the alpkit filoment and the berghaus ramche 2 0 it s nikwax hydrophobic down a pfc free treatment that s claimed to resist water for a mammoth 16 hours.

With its zoned baffles high loft goose down and ascent ready feature set our electron pro jacket makes mountain grade warmth and protection packable portable and flexible. When we properly dunked and soaked the alpkit jacket our conclusion was that the down. Some down jackets also include a chest pocket s. New for autumn winter 15 the electron is designed with a stitch through construction throughout with varying size baffles to help reduce bulk in key areas and to help eliminate cold spots.

The baffled design classic rab logo and a neat recognisable fit however to me the electron is a little different in its own unique way. It s stuffed with 190g of 800 loft hydrophobic goose down. The only jacket in our review that didn t use a zipper on the handwarmer pockets was the feathered friends helios. Through using 1 3 rd more down than its micro equivalent 50g along with a higher grade the warmth value is noticeable.

The chest pocket can be internal like on the arc teryx cerium lt or rab electron or external like on the rab microlight alpine. The ripstop nylon inner is soft and silky against the skin.