Patagonia R1 Jacket warmth

I think my wife takes it to like 40- 45. She wears her R1 all winter here (oregon) with whatever shirt and a MH softshell that was just shell, no tricot or anything on inside.

Jeff, do you mean that with that 3 layer system she takes it to 40-45, or just by itself (with maybe another shirt under?). If she's wearing that combo all winter, the Oregon winters have to get colder than 40 F!

Thanks for the post.

Yeah, she'll just use whatever shirt she is wearing, and the R1, and the MH softshell. On the coldest days she'll wear the MH compresor and the softshell, but most of the time the R1 does it.
Now, I don't know how this happens. I don't think I'd be warm like that, but she seems to be able to. I'm always like, 'Is that all you're gonna wear?' and she says yeah, so..

In Portland it seems like most of the winter is like lower 40s and cold snaps get down to lower 30s. Only live here a few years but thats how i find it.

EDIT- she wears it when we walk around town and do some porch-chillin. But I will say that on while sitting on the porch she will last hours in the lower 40s before getting too chilly, sometimes a hat, no gloves.

I wear with alone with a T shirt down to the upper 40s.

With a Wool 3, I can wear it down to the mid upper 30s, and with an Ascentionist jacket, this combo is what I ski in all winter long until it gets colder than 20 degrees (at the base of Snowbird, so near nearly twenty degrees cooler at HIdden Peak with windchill).

Truly, I think the R1 full zip is most versatile, although I really like the hoody for skiing (thumbloops are weird on mine, but hood is awesome as a helmet liner)

Thanks Babak. That'll definitely give me something to go off of in planning my clothing for chilly 3 season trips.

Jeff, I guess I didn't really know about Portland winters. I had figured, being so far north you'd get much colder weather. Probably has something to do with the ocean and such?

I absolutely love my sometimes -20 winter days here in Wisconsin. Did that reek of sarcasm? It should have.