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Anyone Tried the REI Kimtah eVENT Jacket?
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Feb 16, 2010 at 8:26 pm #1574758
Hah! I'll see if I can get Mr. B to email me the picture he took. It's on the computer at the cabin. Otherwise you'll have to wait a few days. Which is a good thing, now that I think about it.
Edited to add picture – It wasn't raining or snowing. I'm using the driducks and rainskirt together as sort of a human cozy for the lunchbreak. I'm sitting on my Relay. That's Mr. B's herkin' daypack in front.
Now back to Ben's quest for an eVent jacket.
Feb 17, 2010 at 5:46 pm #1575138Hey Ben,
I don't have any experience with this jacket, but have been on a similar quest the past few months. And since we have had a lot of rain, there has been ample opportunities to experiment.
I have been re-evaluating my shelter and rain gear. Have decided to move away from the poncho/tarp & bivy combination to a large tarp without a bivy, which requires a W/B shell jacket.
A few months ago I stopped by REI to look for an around town jacket and a shell for BPing. Ryan Jordan had made some nice comments about the Marmot Essence (Brainstrata fabric), but REI did not have them.
I looked at the Shuksan, which is similar to the Kimtah, but both are too heavy for BPing gear IMO. REI had a Marmot Oracle on sale for less than 1/2 the price of the eVent, so I bought it for around town and some testing. I really liked it.
During the last half of 2009 I had been using my DriDucks a lot, and the zipper is contantly problematic. So based on the Oracle experiment, I bought an Essence at around 6oz. I am thrilled with this jacket, and for me it does a good job as a windshirt too. One caveat, I am a desert dweller, so am less likely to overheat than most folks. Bottom line is that I know have a large shelter, rain and wind coverage at 16 oz total.
I think the REI eVent jackets use 3 layers versus some of the lighter brands that use 2 layers.
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