Patagonia 1000 Fill Down Jacket

The perfect warmth for just about everything our classic down sweater is lightweight and windproof with a 100 recycled polyester ripstop shell and 800 fill power advanced global traceable down goose down certified by nsf international to help ensure the birds that supply it are not force fed or live plucked.

Patagonia 1000 fill down jacket.

Hydrophobic down is certainly very helpful in combatting moisture. Encapsil patented technology uses safe silicone based chemistry that is free of fluorocarbons. They call it encapsil down. Patagonia is not the first manufacturer to introduce water repellant down of course but they insist their manufacturing process delivers additional advantages not least the ability to create down with the unprecedented 1000 fill power rating.

The microlight alpine down jacket features 750 fill power european hydrophobic goose down which holds up well in a light rain. It has a much wider range of motion than we expected and is treated with a dwr finish. This 18 ounce water repellent encapsil 1 000 fill power down belay parka is the warmest jacket you can get for the weight. And let s be honest having a 1000 fill down jacket for most days on the mountain is a bit like.

It s the classic down jacket made thoughtfully in every way. Fill weight fill power gets the most press but fill weight is perhaps the most important factor in determining a down jacket s warmth. Both patagonia and montbell have created such jackets with the former not only going maximum fill power but adding encapsil water repellent technology on top. Patagonia only released 1 000 of the encapsil parkas for purchase all of which are gone now.

Montbell currently offers the 1 000 fill plasma down jacket and parka with thin 7d shells. Well in theory anyway. It s lightweight with 800 fill down and a ripstop exterior includes two hand pockets an adjustable hem and an adjustable hood. Most down jackets fail immediately as soon as they get wet.

In 2013 patagonia experimented with a 1 000 fill down jacket the encapsil but hasn t yet brought it back to market. Patagonia takes 800 fill down and applies a special surface treatment to the feathers that adds both water resistance and increases the fill power to 1000. The development story is pretty interesting and detailed extensively in this recent post on patagonia s blog the cleanest line.