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Mountain hard wear or orage?

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RasTrent
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im looking to buy a down insulator for my shell, deciding between these two companies. Mtn Hard Wear is much more expensive. What do you think would be the better option?

If you have other companies to suggest, feel free to let me know what I should cop.
Apr 21 2021 12:02AM
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Non_State_Actor
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What size are you looking for? What shell?
Apr 21 2021 12:30AM
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h3nry.
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I had a pair of orage snow pants this year and they got destroyed. I’m not sure how their other products are, but I ended up having to sew my snow pants several times just this winter
Apr 21 2021 12:35AM
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RasTrent
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mystery3What size are you looking for? What shell?


I lied, idk why i said shell, i have an xl armada romer jacket, looking to probably buy a large insulator. the orage morrison giltek do be lookin nice tho. also been looking at the link down jacket from orage, aswell as the phantom and mt. eyak from mtn hardwear
Apr 21 2021 12:50AM
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snowmosexual
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I haven't bought orage since before they changed their market segment, but while they still made freestyle clothes their stuff was bomber.
Apr 21 2021 1:55PM
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hi_vis360
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orage is fucking wack, dropped all of their riders in a super shitty way a few years back
Apr 21 2021 5:09PM
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GayWolf420
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I think its the Dakine Pulse II or an older variant of it from a few years prior, but Its been my ol' reliable since I bought it in 2017. Pretty warm, have skied a plethora of cold and slightly warmer conditions in it with a shell on top. I'm just a naturally sweaty dude so quite a few days got musty and damp and stinky but it works. Also works well in the springtime if you wanna go ExTra BIg MoUnTaIn vibes and throw your bibs over it.

Also check out the Strafe Alpha Direct insulator. Picked one up this fall and its such a solid all-around insulator. Took it touring a few times, skied at the resort in it, pretty great stuff.

**This post was edited on Apr 22nd 2021 at 4:25:02pm
Apr 22 2021 4:24PM
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RasTrent
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DeebieSkeebiesI think its the Dakine Pulse II or an older variant of it from a few years prior, but Its been my ol' reliable since I bought it in 2017. Pretty warm, have skied a plethora of cold and slightly warmer conditions in it with a shell on top. I'm just a naturally sweaty dude so quite a few days got musty and damp and stinky but it works. Also works well in the springtime if you wanna go ExTra BIg MoUnTaIn vibes and throw your bibs over it.

Also check out the Strafe Alpha Direct insulator. Picked one up this fall and its such a solid all-around insulator. Took it touring a few times, skied at the resort in it, pretty great stuff.

**This post was edited on Apr 22nd 2021 at 4:25:02pm


Dope! Thanks for the advice my guy
Apr 22 2021 5:41PM
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apc.fr
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snowmosexualI haven't bought orage since before they changed their market segment, but while they still made freestyle clothes their stuff was bomber.


Yea are there any details on what happened? I remember the community was furious, rightly so, but I thought they were out of skiing gear completely after that. Apparently not?
Apr 22 2021 10:16PM
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Non_State_Actor
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DeebieSkeebiesI think its the Dakine Pulse II or an older variant of it from a few years prior, but Its been my ol' reliable since I bought it in 2017.

Also check out the Strafe Alpha Direct insulator. Picked one up this fall and its such a solid all-around insulator. Took it touring a few times, skied at the resort in it, pretty great stuff.

**This post was edited on Apr 22nd 2021 at 4:25:02pm


I have a strafe jacket with the primaloft gold or whatever and it's super warm for it's weight/bulk.

Evo has some really good deals on Strafe rn, including the alpha direct I think? They have some Norrona on heavy discount too and those are supposed to be good, probably a slimmer fit, more geared towards touring crowd.
Apr 22 2021 10:54PM
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snowmosexual
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apc.frYea are there any details on what happened? I remember the community was furious, rightly so, but I thought they were out of skiing gear completely after that. Apparently not?

They changed from making technical gear and freestyle gear to making just technical gear. They dropped all their freestyle athletes with minimal heads up.
Apr 22 2021 11:41PM
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