Rab neutrino endurance jacket women portable#

The jacket’s really too warm for rainy days. The Pertex Quantum Pro – it used to be called Endurance – has a water-resistant coating to shrug off the odd tent spill or glacial / icefall drip. There’s around 230g and it fills the fat down compartments nicely in a dense, air-trapping sort of way that gives a near-instant feeling of warmth when you pull it on. It starts with the high-lofting, ethically-sourced, 800 fill-power, Nikwax, water-resistant goose down fill. Putting the Rab Neutrino Pro to good use in the Peak District. Of course this is the internet, so you can have as many words as you want, but refinement seems to sum it up nicely. If you had to choose one word, it would probably be ‘refinement’. Which to be fair, you’d expect from a jacket priced a tenner shy of £300 from a brand like Rab. It’s not quite as warm as a full-on box-wall expedition monster down jacket, but not that far off, and about as warm as most of us will ever actually need most of the time.Įxcept it’s not quite, because on top of all that, the Rab Neutrino Pro is also very nicely specced and designed, which means that in addition to being warm, it’s also a very nice thing. In a different league to any micro-baffled jacket I’ve used. Or, and don’t ask how I know this, sat in sub-zero conditions outside Munich airport eating sausage and chips to pass the time at an outside bar, while everyone around you shivers. Or in a Scottish bothy in deep mid-winter.

It would be right at home watching the sun rising over Everest from Kalar Patar. Rab Neutrino ProīEST FOR: staying warm when it’s really cold and you’re stationaryĪll that and at 570g for a medium, not too ridiculously heavy to cart around with you either.

Rab neutrino endurance jacket women portable#

A whopping great dose of portable warmth that you can take out wherever you are and in anything short of seriously cold conditions, and rely on to keep you comfortably toasty. In a slightly more literal world, the Rab Neutrino Pro would be called something like the ‘Rab Big (but not too big) Warm Coat’ because hey, ultimately that’s what it is.