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  • The Great Outdoors

    TESTING NOTES

    Dec 31, 2021 6 minutes
    WOMEN’S by Judy Armstrong

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    Mountain Equipment

    Baltoro Women’s Jacket

    £230 448g (UK 12)

    construction, traceability, warmth, cut, features

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    Shell: Drilite Loft 20D nylon, PFC-free DWR

    Lining: recycled downproof nylon

    Insulation: duck, 90/10, 700 fill power, 148g; Down Codex

    Sizes: 8-16 (men S-XXL)

    mountain-equipment.co.uk

    Mountain Equipment is king of down, through its pioneering Down Codex programme and ongoing innovation in product design. The big shout here, with fresh-to-the-range Baltoro, is a new (and unique to ME) construction technique developed specifically for down clothing. It’s a double-layer, offset-baffle construction with reflective internal scrim, and it’s more wind-resistant and warmer than stitch-through construction but less bulky than box wall, thereby offering a great compromise between the two. The scrim has a coating that reflects body heat and forms part of the baffle structure.

    ME teams it with its own Drilite Loft, a nylon fabric with water-resistant coating on the

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