This is because GoreTex material needs to transform the vapor into water before it can transport it thru the membrane. The eVent material transports the vapor directly, which means that you will always feel comfortably dry in this jacket.
This is a very important advance from any of the aging GoreTex fabrics in my opinion. Once you tried an eVent jacket it's hard to go back to GoreTex. As for the jacket, one has to try it to see if he likes it.
It is extremely sturdy and you can use it to protect yourself from the branches while off skiing. You don't have to worry to rip it In may ways it's the opposite of an Arc'teryx or Mammut jacket, of which I love the thinness and lightness but always feel a bit vulnerable. This is a serious jacket for peoples that don't mind an additional 50g for something that will give them perfect comfort Our reputation for innovation allows us to work with our partners to develop new fabrics, finishes and treatments.
This relationship guarantees us access to the latest technology and the ability to specify fabric requirements that perform in accordance with our product design goals.
MEN View All. Westcomb Mirage Jacket - Men's has been discontinued by Westcomb and is no longer available. Our product experts have helped us select these available replacements below. The Westcomb Mirage Jacket is a eVent waterproof jacket with pit zips and an adjustable waist gaiter. This jacket was designed with every winter occasion in mind, all your friends will agree, it's the coolest jacket on Earth.
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Our site is powered by industry leading security standards for your protection. I do a week long trip every summer, and often take three-day trips. I'm usually camping in alpine terrain, at altitudes to ft m. My preference is base camp backpacking, a long hike in with day trips from camp, but I do my share of forced marches too.
Though always looking for ways to reduce weight, I'm not yet a lightweight hiker and I usually choose a bit more weight over foregoing camp conveniences I've come to expect. Manufacturer : Westcomb Outerwear inc. Website : www. This website lists online and retail distributors but has no means for direct purchase of any product. The website gives no weights or measurements for the Mirage. Listed colors are vampire red , black, blue night navy , harvest gold , "major brown," and swamp bright green.
See "A Special Edition" below. Related product : Westcomb also sells an iMirage jacket, with a pocket and ports for an MP3-type player. My jacket is actually a Mirage SE, a version of the listed jacket that Westcomb made specially for the online retailer from which I purchased it. This retailer's partner marketing representative, a friend of mine, told me that Westcomb regularly makes such customized products, which add, delete, or modify features to identify the product with the retailer as well as Westcomb.
Westcomb's customer service confirmed this practice. My friend told me that the retailer had specified elimination of several of the Mirage's features to market a lighter weight version.
When I bought mine in February this retailer offered both the standard and SE versions. I mention this to alert a prospective buyer to check to see if a desired feature listed or pictured on Westcomb's website is part of the product under consideration.
I didn't do this and was initially disappointed to find that the SE didn't have pit zips. I had seen the standard version, which does have them, in a retail store. The SE has all the Mirage's listed features but not some others that I'd seen on the one in the store: the pit zips, a sewn-in powder skirt, a transparent plastic patch on the left arm at the wrist to read your watch; this is faintly visible in the picture on Westcomb's website , and maybe a pocket on one sleeve. My jacket also has a different name for red and appears much brighter than the "vampire" version pictured on Westcomb's site.
As my retailer listed a color a very feminine lavender not shown on the website for the Women's SE, I do think the SE colors are different.
SE and standard except black versions both have two color shades, with most of the front, the top of the sleeves, and the shoulder yoke in a rip stop fabric that is more subdued than the remainder.
One additional and very welcome detail is a napped fabric patch at the top inside of the collar. Though quite thin it has a much softer hand than the rather slick eVENT fabric. While feature-customized for this particular retailer, the only advertising on the SE all in a reflective grey is a small " Westcomb " on the lower left of the front, small Westcomb logos on the middle of the back just above the hem and at the bicep point of the left sleeve, and a small " eVENT " with logo at the bicep point of the right sleeve.
Since buying the Mirage in February I've worn or carried it as my rain shell on every day hike and camping trip I have taken.
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