One of the biggest pet peeves of mine is people proclaiming items as the best of at the start/middle of the year. You can’t know what the Best of 2025 is, when it’s *still* March of 2025. That’s why my Best Lists come out at the end of the year.
Likewise, you can’t really know what a good winter jacket is, until you’ve spent a season with that jacket. I could tell you all day long what I think might be good based on specs in September, but that could leave you with a pretty shitty jacket for the winter if you buy based on my assumptions. And I suspect most people are not as crazy as I am, and thus don’t buy this many jackets, and so it matters a lot more to get it right on the first purchase.
Technically winter is over, though my friends here in Boulder tell me we are not quite done with snow (I am pretty sure we are). But I do believe we are mostly done with the cold-cold of the winter as it’s forecasted to tickle 80°F this week.
Today, I want to run through my thoughts on the jackets I wore this winter — which stretched from late October until about now.
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