Outdoor Research Methow Pants – Super Flexible and Warm Kate Agathon The Outdoor Research Methow pants are the softshell pants you find yourself wearing for nearly every outdoor winter adventure. Super flexible and warm, I have worn these nordic skiing and fat biking. They are the pants that do it all! Seriously, one week I wore these nearly every day
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Patagonia DAS Light Pants The “micro puff” of pants: packable, lightweight, and practical Drew Thayer If you’ve ever worn a pair of thick, pillowy down pants on a cold winter day, you have felt a wee sliver of heaven. However, voluminous down pants are often not practical for what most of us do – they tend to be expensive,
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Mountain Hardwear Stretchdown Pant – Versatile and Comfortable Kate Agathon The Mountain Hardwear Stretchdown pant is a winter staple that I can’t believe only found my way into my closet this year. I live in ski country, where there is snow on the ground from October through April. That means a lot of cold mornings and evenings walking the dog
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Topo Designs Fleece Pants – Warm and Comfortable Kate Agathon The Topo Designs Fleece Pants stand out from the rest for being warm, practical, and trendy. Of all the fleece pants I have tried this season, my favorite are the ones by Topo Designs. Constructed from 100% recycled polyester Polartec 200 fleece, these are the warmest fleece pants
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Patagonia Dirt Roamer Storm Jacket – Great Purpose-built Rain Jacket for a Mountain Bike Enthusiast Drew Thayer The Patagonia Dirt Roamer Storm jacket is the answer to wet-weather trail riding: a lightweight, purpose-built rain jacket designed specifically to keep a rider dry while pedaling a bicycle. By 3 PM, the wool layer on my chest was damp through and
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Mountain Hardwear Powder Quest Ski Jacket and Pant – Good to the Last Chair Kate Agathon Loaded with features, the trendy Mountain Hardwear Powder Quest Ski Jacket and Powder Quest Ski Pant keep you warm in the coldest of conditions. From first chair to last chair, the Powder Quest line plays as hard as you do. I most recently
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