a product or two to be seen at the or show

The following article is taken from SNEWS the on line publication, the leading presenter of all of the erroneous information that is spouted from companies that are members of the outdoor association that presents every six months products to retailers who attend the outdoor retailers show. The SNEWS organization moto is “we know outdoors” which suggests they know something about the outdoors but in my opinion nothing about the products used in the used in the outdoors.It is apparent to me that they know nothing about clothing products from head to foot. They continue to not learn that the products they promote with materials such as goretex or primaloft do not function as advertised and they at SNEWS ignore this information. As I see it birds of a feather stay together.

Outdoor Research unveils three leading-edge apparel technologies, yielding better mobility and warmth

As you will read the above headline is non-sense!!!

For Fall 18, OR employs new GORE-TEX® fabric with superior stretch, better insulation with Primaloft® Aerogel in gloves, VerticalX™ in jackets.

VerticalX must have something to do with the quilt pattern as quilting is necessary to keep the primaloft fiberfill from breaking apart.

Author:

Dave Simpson - Verde PR

Publish date:

Jan 11, 2018

SEATTLE, Wash. – A commitment to offering leading-edge technology has always been a hallmark of Outdoor Research gear. With its Fall 2018 apparel and glove collections, Outdoor Research continues that trajectory with three new fabric and insulation technologies that result in superior mobility in ski apparel and more effective warmth in gloves and jackets.

The insulation “technology” what a farce to refer to a chopped staple fiberfill that has been in use since the 1960s as “new technology just because they have added sand to the fiberfill”. “More effective warmth” not possible as all gloves are not good below 32 degrees.

Category leading stretch in ski apparel

With its new ski-focused Hemispheres Jacket and Bib, Outdoor Research is the first in the North American outdoor market to use new GORE-TEX® Fabric with Stretch Technology. This fabric offers unparalleled range of motion in waterproof shells with nearly four times the stretch of other waterproof fabrics with mechanical stretch. It also expands with very low applied force – roughly 25 percent of what is required to stretch other waterproof fabrics. That means the Hemispheres Jacket and Bib can adapt easily to user movements and more readily accommodate different layers beneath them. In addition, because of the way the fabric allows the garment to fit, GORE-TEX® Fabric with Stretch Technology also helps improve breathability.

The paragraph mentions three times that the goretex fabric is “waterproof” but ends the paragraph with not only breathability but “improved breathability”. Further proof of their lack of knowledge at outdoor research of what is or is not.

The warmest glove insulation on Earth

The above sentence is as bombastic a comment as I have ever read. Further proof of their lack of knowledge of insulations and lack of respect for their customers. They will say anything to sell their goods.

In glove insulation, Outdoor Research is combining its decades of experience building highly dexterous, durable gloves with an innovative new material – super-insulating PrimaLoft® Gold Aerogel, a first in the outdoor glove category. Aerogel is the warmest insulation available today, and originally developed by NASA to insulate space suits. Used in the palms and fingers of the new Bitterblaze Gloves and Women’s Ouray Ice Gloves, Aerogel is a malleable solid made of more than 98 percent air and has incredibly low density and thermal conductivity. As opposed to traditional insulation, which traps heat, encapsulated Aerogel blocks cold from moving into the palms and also blocks heat from escaping. Moreover, Aerogel won’t compress the way traditional insulation does, which greatly compromises warmth.

Aerogel will not now nor will it ever function in the manner that is being portrayed in this article. When it is integrated with the fiberfill used to form primaloft I do not believe it can be seen or even felt. The primaloft will definitely compress and when it does the aerogel that has been applied to it will just compress with it.

As I see it the outdoor industry is an excellent example of the blind leading the blind. With the exception of Climashield fiberfill insulation which is readily available to one and all as it is to me and every other material offered by the companies that make fiberfill for insulation are not very good products whether it is primaloft in all of its machinations to include the one mentioned here thinsulate, thermore which comes from Italy or any other fiberfill product out there, you can add polartec to the list of materials designated as insulation that DO NOT WORK. Then of course the gore people like to spout that they have materials that help these non-functioning insulations, UTTER-NONSENSE. It is Climashield or it is nothing.

Those of you who are in the heart of the winter season that is quite cold that may have purchased the newest and greatest flat quilted jackets have learned that these companies cannot be trusted when they say how good their jackets are at keeping you warm.

The makers of these bogus chopped staple fiberfills are blind to the facts that their products don’t work and the buyers of these products are equally blind. Hence the blind leading the blind.

BLUE RIDGE OUTDOORS MAGAZINE

I never heard of it. They called me and told me one of their subscribers had written a testimonial about Lamilite socks and they were going to publish it if I said okay, I said okay without hesitation.

The following testimonial appears in the January m2018 issue. 

Peter Ripmaster participates in the running of the Iditarod Trail Invitational, you run this event. The magazine published his comments about Lamilite socks. here is what he said; " These bad boys put any traditional socks to shame. All the other sock companies (and I've tried them all) use materials that won't dry fast enough after they get wet, which leads to some very cold feet. I will never trust "normal" socks ever again. I wore the same pair of Wiggy's for 350 miles in Alaska and didn't have a single foot issue. 

The traditional socks he is referring to are most likely wool. I actually believe they NEVER dry.

Testimonials like this should convince one and all that you only need Lamilite socks when ever you go into the field and realize all you need is the one pair you are wearing when you leave your house.

Peter THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The race takes place in late February each year and it is a 1000 mile race.