This year I picked up my first wind jacket so I am excited about incorporating that into my layering system too. I can pair these layers over my torso and add my black rock down beanie on top and I am pretty good to go. All around great piece of gear, and it will be replaced if ever so needed. It does indeed ventilate well to keep me cooler in the upper temps and warmer in the lower temps. I wear a Cap 2 long sleeve crew as a base layer and then the R1 over it and I am good in a very wide range of temperatures from the teens to the mid 50's or even closer to 60 (F). I have often wondered if the hoody would have been a better choice, but to date, I am happy with the pullover version. However, it is not the hoody that you are talking about in this post. I have an R1 flash pullover and I gotta admit, I love it. I see that you have been back at it! Congrats on the recovery and glad to see you back! All this, and it feels more like a fleece or sweatshirt than the standard scratchy synthetic feel so common with capilene. It is my go-to cold/colder weather garment of choice. Add a windshirt and there is no reason why this combination shouldn’t keep a moving hiker plenty comfortable in nearly any cold/colder conditions. Being able to regulate your thermal comfort without digging through your pack for a hat or something to supplement the system is wonderful. Because it comes with a hood, it can be used to greatly increase your comfort level when you stop or when you get cold. The beauty of this design is that it will keep you warm and allow for great moisture management because there is still circulation which is really the only chance you'll have to dry your garment. When holding it up to a light, certain areas allow more light through than others. When you look at it closely, it looks like a little checkerboard with high spots and low spots. It is constructed to be a next-to-skin baselayer offering superior wicking action. It's interesting, I've seen the durability debated on here before, with wildly different experiences claimed.So what’s the big deal? Well, this is a very unique garment. Though not sure how I'd get my Nitro in contact with either of those. Can only think of the pieces on my shoe heels for the Dirty Gurl Gaiters, and on the XMid vents. Though didn't have any velcro I recall in my clothing/gear. Though I'm sure there were unseen "microfibres" as in any fabric. I also hand washed my Nitro in light coloured campsite/hotel sinks at least 4 times. ( And my partner will tell you that I'm annoyingly observant/pedantic about things like this that most people aren't interested in!) I often noticed down from our sleeping bag/quilt as well as other debris and human hair etc but never noticed any blue fibres from my Nitro. Each morning when I packed the tent, I usually shook the floor down and emptied crumbs etc. Pulled in and out of pack/stuffsac/pillow bag in tent. Often worn for sleeping in on colder nights as well as on days when needed. Given Polartec have long made efforts at appearing to be green, and knowledge of microfibres shedding has been around longer than Alpha, I would hope they'd not be pushing a fabric on the market that sheds a magnitude more microfibres than a standard microfleece? Not saying I don't believe that Alpha doesn't shed fibres like any other fleece, just that ours don't obviously regularly shed visible fibres in any excess manner, which is what you imply (and obviously experience)? What I mean is that I don't find they obviously shed "just looking at them" But that isn't what we were discussing as such.
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