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.
Rab summit extreme jacket review.
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.
This is one of the best down.
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.
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.
Over the last four or so years rab has been on top of the technical fabric world churning out shell after category smashing shell.
The jacket is also excellently priced.
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Kicking around basecamp huddled on a bivi ledge in the alps or on a winter belay stance the summit jacket ticks all the boxes.
Another important feature of the nebula pro jacket is that whether you put this over or under your hardshell whilst having gloves on the cuffs are tight but stretch over even the biggest gloves keeping a tight fit.
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.
The summit has been a staple of the rab range for many years and continues to.
Climb haul the bag belay off belay swap the rack repeat.
Like the original the rab tent is truly focused.
The closer we got to the summit fatigue set in and the more automated our actions became.
I have washed the jacket twice in nikwax downwash and it has fluffed back up nicely.
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.
At 145 being the lowest i ve seen online.
Featuring 750fp goose down and the innovative pertex quantum infinity.
It is built for lightweight climbs in the most extreme alpine environments.
