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(Almost) Everything You need to know about belay parkas, winter parkas and ultralight mountaineering jackets.
The most comprehensive belay parka video on KZfaq meant to give you a baseline on how to shop for a belay parka or winter parka for a variety of uses. What's the best winter parka or belay parka? That's up to you to decide. But here are a bunch of options to look at to guide you in how to choose an ultralight belay/winter/mountaineering parka for freezing conditions and high altitudes.
In this video I cover everything from ultralight, sweater-weight down jackets for casual use, all the way up to expedition level parkas used to stay alive on Mount Everest, 8,000 meter peaks and polar expeditions.
This video is not an exhaustive list of every parka on the market but it is meant to cover the range of options for different uses, key features to look for. I tried to give a fair assessment of every piece I cover while focusing on key features and use cases.
This is not meant to be a review video, but more of a guide to help you shop for the right jacket/parka for you. That said, I do talk about what I like and don't like about these pieces and what I think are some of the best belay parkas and mountaineering parkas on the market.
In this video I look at the following pieces of gear:
0:00 Introduction
~Down~
5:47 Light Down Jackets
7:37 Mountain Hardwear Ghost Whisperer/2
9:25 Mountain Hardwear Phantom Hooded Jacket
11:00 L.L. Bean Ultralight 850 Down Sweater Hooded Jacket
13:30 Heavyweight Down Jackets/Light Down Parkas
16:55 Rab Electron
21:15 Montane Antifreeze
27:36 Medium Weight Parkas
27:46 Mont-Bell Alpine Down Parka
35:58 Mountain Hardwear Nilas
42:30 Heavyweight Parkas
42:30 Mountain Equipment Trango (I accidentally call it the Mountain Hardwear Trango (which is a tent))
47:31 Montane Chonos
55:04 Mountain Hardwear Absolute Zero
1:05:55 ~Synthetic~
1:06:00 Rab Xenon
1:09:52 Patagonia DAS Parka
1:19:17 Heavyweight Synthetic Parkas
1:19:45 Black Diamond Belay Parka
1:26:12 Army ECWCS Level 7 Parka
1:32:50 ~Layering with Synthetic Midlayers~
-Patagonia Nano Air
-L.L. Bean Stretch Packaway Hooded Jacket
-Big Agnes Porcupine Hooded Pullover
1:45:18 Layering Over a Shell
1:52:35 The Best Parkas to buy (In my opinion-My top picks)
1:53:35 Packability Tests
2:00:15 THANK YOU
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