Marmot PreCip Jacket - Men'sMarmot PreCip Jacket - Men's
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- Full-function men's rain jacket for both backcountry and urban adventures
- Patented Angel-Wing Movement technology gives your arms full range of motion
- PitZips underarm zippers let you vent the jacket; full-visibility hood
- DriClime moisture-wicking fabric protects your face from the zipper
- PreCip technology is waterproof and breathable
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Additional Features
- Material: PreCip 2.8-ounce, 100-percent nylon ripstop
- Double storm flap: Located over the zipper, the storm flap offers a snap/Velcro closure
- Elastic draw cord hem: The adjustable hem is ideal for serious weather conditions
- Roll-up hood: The jacket's full-visibility hood includes peripheral cord adjustments and an integral collar
- DriClime-lined chin guard: The DriClime moisture-wicking fabric protects your face from the zipper
- PreCip technology: This dry-clip technology is waterproof and breathable
About PreCip Technology
PreCip is Marmot's "next step" technology. It allows the company to construct the lightest, most compressible, technical, waterproof, and breathable rainwear in the world. Ventilated and breathable to keep you dry from the inside, PreCip rainwear has plenty of pockets and custom fit features to keep you warm, dry, and comfortable. The key to PreCip is its barrier technology, a microporous polyurethane that is impregnated with silicon dioxide particles. These particles create small, numerous, consistent holes that allow small water vapor molecules to pass through the barrier but not the bigger liquid ones. This keeps the rain out while letting your sweat vapor work its way outside, away from your body, to keep you dry from the inside as well as from the outside. PreCip rainwear is compressible enough to stuff into a water bottle, and comes in enough colors and styles to travel with you anywhere--to the mountains, the city, or overseas.
About Marmot
In April 1971, University of California Santa Cruz students Eric Reynolds and Dave Huntley were visiting the Juneau Icefields in Alaska as part of a school project in glaciology. It was among their fellow students that Reynolds and Huntley came up with the idea of a Marmot club. To become a Marmot, you had to climb a glaciated peak with another Marmot. To help fellow club members deal with the cold, the pair began to make prototypes of down products in their Santa Cruz dorm rooms, starting with a down vest, a sweater, and a parka, and later branched into sleeping bags. The warmest bag was the PIKA (now known as the Cwm), which was rated at -45 degrees F. In 1974, the pair joined up with Tom Boyce in Grand Junction, Colorado, and opened a rental and retail shop under the name of Marmot Mountain Works.
Through the years, Marmot has passed many memorable milestones. The company debuted its Golden Mantle puffy jacket in the mid-'70s for a Clint Eastwood film called The Eiger Sanction. In 1976, Marmot helped introduce Gore-Tex to the public after testing a number of prototype sleeping bags in frozen meat lockers and under fire sprinklers (with the company founders snugly inside). Now headquartered in Santa Rosa, California, Marmot has offices in California, Colorado, Canada, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Germany. Its products are distributed in 27 countries.
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- Publisher: Marmot
- Label: Marmot
- Studio: Marmot
- Average Customer Review: based on 9 reviews
- Sales Rank in Apparel: #22063
I did some hiking in light rain with good results. A little sweaty if I was really pushing it, but ok. The suit was thoughtfully designed and well-made.
Later, I waited for the big rain. After a couple of hours it went right through and I was soaked. I wore it many other times since and the results were the same; fine for a couple or three hours in light rain, no good for heavy rain.
Per the directions, I fluffed it up in the dryer, to re-activate the chemical that makes it water-proof and went out again. Same results. I maybe took it out a dozen times, so there was no reason it should have been worn out in any way. It was never washed, either, so nothing was washed away.
I contacted Marmot and they said it should be sent in for re-waterproofing, that my rainsuit was not designed to be totally waterproof, just water resistant.
I write this review not knowing if the material and the chemical process is different now. Maybe this review is not fair because this is a different product altogether, but I have my suspicions. The technology is presented the same way, the same sort of advertising. The design of the suit and its features appear to be the same.
I suggest that you contact the company and grill them about just what is promised.
Note the lofty price of Gore Tex products(!). It may be that you have to go that route to get perfect performance. If you are going to use your suit a lot, and use it in heavy rain, it might be worth going in that direction. If you need a suit for very occasional or non-exertion use, or just for emergencies, then a PVC suit will probably be ok. They are totally waterproof, and cheap, but do sweat you up big time if you are working hard or hiking.
