You will never regret purchasing Filson anything. It is all unbelievably rugged clothing. Four years ago I found myself stuck out on a rocky outcropping point high above the valley near dark. Wonderful semi wilderness hunt, got close to a small buck i later regretted passing up. Just being in a remote spot that might maybe see one other human once a year or two is exhilarating. The hike back to the truck was long and would occur in the dark no matter what. What I didn’t want to happen was coming out of the woods in deep dark. Even with a headlamp and maybe made worse with a headlamp, trying to walk or slide downhill through our rocky, steep, tangled mountains is a recipe for minor injury, broken limbs, and destroyed or lost gear. So instead of backtracking, I took a shortcut straight down the mountain, keeping the cliffs and jutting rock points directly to my left. No other choice but to slide on my butt and try to self arrest by catching ahold of trees and using my feet to dig in to slow down. About a thousand feet in elevation later, I felt my behind getting cold and wet. Sure enough the downhill slide had torn open the Filson pants, pretty small holes at both cheeks. But only after a very long and brutal process that would eat alive within minutes any other fabric I have worn over fifty years of hunting. So buy Filson and enjoy it under every condition. When temperatures stayed in the single digits here recently, the Filson double mackinaw kept me perfectly warm and comfortable no matter how long I was outside.
