For decades, outdoor aficionados have only had two choices when it came to selecting an ultra-warm puffy jacket for chilly backpacking trips and frigid winter hikes: down or synthetic. Recently, Ibex ...

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A puffy jacket can be compressible, it can be warm, and it can be water-resistant—but never all at once. Call it the iron triangle of insulated outerwear: Improvements to any two of these properties ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. As a writer covering outdoor gear for the past six years, I test a lot of puffy jackets. Some days, ...

I loved the look and feel of the Smartwool Smartloft Jacket as soon as I got my hands on it, but it’s one of those products that’s very difficult to accurately categorize. Is it a fleece? No, not ...

Cost: Men’s and women’s jackets are $289, available at http://www.syncperformance.com. A jacket that’s puffy and stretchy already sounded great, but the SYNC ...