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Montane Slipstream GL Jacket Review
A very lightweight hoodless windshirt utilizing Pertex’s newest lightest fabric – Quantum GL. In addition to his thorough evaluation, Will includes a discussion of the versatility of a windshirt.
By Will Rietveld
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Is an ultralight windshirt an essential piece of gear in an ultralight gear kit? There are good arguments pro and con, and during my testing of the new Montane Slipstream GL Windshirt, I kept that key question in mind.
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Will Rietveld Ph.D, Senior Editor for Gear and Apparel, joined the BPL staff in April 2004. In his former career, Will was a research scientist, project manager, and R&D program administrator. Now retired, he lives in southern Colorado where he takes up a new career of backpacking year-round in the mountains and canyon country of the Southwest. During the summer months Will and his wife Janet are volunteer wilderness rangers in the Weminuche Wilderness. He has been a lightweight backpacker for 52 years and an ultralight backpacker for 13 years.
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Sizing – a lot depends as much on the context of intended use as does your size. If this to wear just over a baselayer then you don't have to size up so much. I'm a medium in most Montane but I erred up with a Large for the Slipstream.
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