berghaus knoydart jacket final thoughts

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been using the Berghaus Knoydart jacket kindly supplied by Go Outdoors for the last three months and thought I’d bring the review to a close with my experiences of it throughout the period. The original outing with the jacket was impressive for the price and I rather liked it. Since then, I’ve used it around the house to store the logs in heavy rain and wind, some more hillwalks and even taken it on a business trip to Bristol. A lot of outdoor jackets are over engineered for the general hillwalking public, the worst of the features being a helmet compatible hood. No hillwalker wears a helmet. I used to wear a helmet in the days when I hacked my way up ice in the winter but not these days so I’m not in the market for a helmet compatible jacket but most of them seem to offer this pointless feature. It means there has to be tons of drawcord in the hood to gather in the extra material that isn’t used when you’re not wearing a helmet. The Berghaus Knoydart doesn’t have a helmet compatible hood so you don’t look like a chump walking down Bristol high street. Also, because it’s not festooned with mountaineering zipped pockets you get away with wearing it on Bristol high street. The pockets are a compromise between its hillwalking aspirations and allowing you to wear it in daily mode, as they are below the hip belt and perfectly placed for standing in the bus queue in Bristol. They are also good for keeping your hands warm when walking into a gale on a hill.

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berghaus knoydart jacket final thoughts