Mammut Adrenaline Gore-Tex Proshell Jacket Review

This Mammut Adrenaline Jacket has been around for 2 years and 2011 bought us 4 new colors with Midnight/Twilight being my favorite from the pick. Like all Mammut top shelf gear this jacket is well tailored for slim athletic builds but the price tag at $579 retail is not for the faint of heart. Backpacker Magazine gave the Adrenaline points for being very durable and well constructed. Suprisingly it is also very packable for a 500 gram jacket that has 5 pockets and a super large hood. The reason is Mammut tailors their jackets to have the least amount of fabric for the size. Where as other brands like Arcteryx (Alpha SV), North Face (Mammutus/Point Five) and Patagonia (Alpinist/Super Pluma) uses other techniques to save weight but use more fabric for the size to allow for a relaxed fit.
This is a cold weather 3-season jacket best used for Fall/Winter/Spring in sports like alpine mountaineering, backcountry snow sports, ice climbing, etc...

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• Gore-Tex
• mammut
• adrenaline
• albaron
• extreme
• logan
• lhotse
• ultimate
• hoody
• pro
• advanced

[xev1435]

Thank you olaf2046 for the reply. I agree with your comments on this "globalization" done on seems to be every piece of clothing. Are any of your jackets made in the first world? Do you or have you seen any Bogner, Mountain Force, Jack Wolfskin, Toni Sailor, Dale of Norway, or Duvetica Jackets? I live near Boston, and almost all the stores here carry North Face, though I saw a few marmots at citi sports, seemed OK, and of course Canada Goose and Moncler in Saks. The latter is made in Moldova.

[olaf2046]

@xev1435 I wear Barbour Of England jackets daily to work and so forth and those are made in England. That brand is sold at Boston's at North River Outfitters on 126 Charles Street Boston, MA 02114. In fact this Mammut Adrenaline Jacket was ordered from their web site. In 2002 I switched from North Face and Marmot to brands like Mammut because at the time most Mammut gear was made in Germany, and eastern Europe instead of China. I guess times have changed.

[xev1435]

china?!



[olaf2046]

@xev1435 It says MADE IN CHINA but DESIGNED IN SWITZLAND. Meaning the jacket was designed on a computer in Swizterland before being approved by a board of shareholders/investors. A design prototype would have been made in Switzerland/Germany before the design specs were emailed to a factory in China where poor, unskilled, overworked kids were paid 10 cents a week to make these jackets. So when you pay $600 retail be aware that 99.9999% of that money ain't going to the manufacturing process!

[olaf2046]

@olaf2046 oh and before anyone says anything. I'm not offending China or hard working Chinese workers. Other than their lack of environmental policies I have A LOT of repsect for a country that manufactures, assembles and exports $29 billion worth of goods each MONTH to just the USA. Chinese workers take the jobs no one else wants or no employer wants to pay above minimum wage in the USA to get done. Said and done at this rate, in a few decades we will all be speaking Mandarin.

[xev1435]

where is it made?

[olaf2046]

@xev1435 Yeah this $600 jacket is made in China! Crazy indeed! With all that consumers know today about China and China's treatment of employees and the environment and cutting corners on quality to save money to the shareholders of these western companies you would think Mammut would be a little more fair in their pricing. I've been wearing the Adrenaline for the past 2 months and can tell you first hand it didn't even cost as much as $100 to manufacture it.

[skidooer96]

nice