![]() Packability: A great jacket should pack down to roughly the size of a grapefruit and be comparable in weight to a golf ball.There should be enough pockets to comfortably carry a cell phone, wallet, radio, snack, pocket knife, glasses cleaner cloth, car keys, and the miscellaneous bits and pieces that accumulate-especially if an activity involves children. A great jacket should have the standard two front hand-warmer pockets, as well as interior pockets and a breast or shoulder pocket. User-friendly zippers/pockets: A great jacket should have zippers that are easy to use when you’re wearing gloves and durable enough to withstand being frozen and defrosted and used frequently.It shouldn’t be constricting, yet it should also be able to fit underneath an additional layer (such as a wind- and waterproof outer shell), and you’ll want to have room for a base layer. Overall fit: A great jacket should be loosely comfortable while still functional.Still, a great jacket should be able to at least minimize wind. Windproof: Similarly, we didn’t find a good, truly windproof option from any brand. ![]() A realistically great jacket would be able to dry indoors in several hours and would have some exterior treatment coating (DWR) that would cause water to initially bead on contact, rather than be absorbed immediately. Although goose down is generally considered to be the warmest insulation material, the trade-off is it’s useless when wet.
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