 Glad you addressed the issue of "packability" of this jacket. Alpkit seem to dodge away the subject on their website. So they don't provide a stuffsack with it? Strange - all the stuffsack budget must have gone on the stuffsack, micro stuffsack and storage bag that you get with their sleeping bags! Can the jacket be stuffed into one of its own pockets or do really have to go out and buy a separate stuffsack of the right size for this jacket?
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 stuff it into a waterproof bag of the size of your choice. it depends just how much you want to squash it.
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  Alpkit at the moment must indeed be very busy! As they've not yet got back to either Jon, nor anyone else on here in the 'New Filo' thread of recent here upon the forum. Most unusual for them that is, as they usually pop in here now and again to talk to us, and especially so if there is a new product line, or an alteration to a classic product of theirs as is this particular case! Calling Alpkit!
Calling Alpkit! Come in, over!
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 The Filo is packable, compressible even, and I have before expressed my surprise that no stuffsack came with it. However, the absence of a stuffsack does not detract from its extremely good value for money. To actually raise a thread complaining about it zooms from nit picking to deeply anal ime. FFS, get a life! I'd be surprised if the really nice guys at Alpkit could be arsed to contribute to this thread. Well, no, I wouldn't actually but, to be fair, they would be justified in ignoring such whinging about such a trivial issue. If anyone is penny pinching it's those who begrudge shelling out a pound or two for a stuffsack. Mal.E.
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"shelling out a pound or two for a stuffsack" more to the point, why haven't you got some waterproof bags? i felt i may have been a little too undiplomatic to point all that out mr carder. i would guess alpkit's rationale is that is a jacket. you wear a jacket. you do not wear a sleeping bag. or have i missed the point.
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Eh? Have I had a go at you Parky? Funny, I sort of agree with everything you have said. "...more to the point, why haven't you got some waterproof bags?" OK Parky, ...shelling out a pound or two for a stuffsack or a waterproof bag.
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eh? i was agreeing with you mr carder. my version of it would have been rather more blunt. stuffsack/waterproof bag are the same thing in my book - they're both something you put things in.
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Mr Carder, You may consider the inquisitive and distinctly non-aggressive context in which I posted my original comment, rather than acting like a sanctimonious knob grommet. 1) I wasn't aware of any other threads relating to this jacket, 2) I was just expressing the opinion that's it's a bit strange for a company who are more generous than any other in supplying stuffsacks for their sleeping bags, appearing not to supply one with this jacket.
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Knob Grommet! Blimey, can't afford a litte waterproofed bag but he thinks he can afford to come on here chucking nastiness about! Very silly person, seemingly!
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'You may consider the inquisitive and distinctly non-aggressive context in which I posted my original comment, rather than acting like a sanctimonious knob grommet.' - Wrote a Very silly person, seemingly. You sure made up for it later though, bud!
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Mate! Most jackets do not come with stuff sacs, from my experience! OK! Some do though, of course, which is nice. That is not the norm though generally speaking. But it is certainly not compulsory for the company selling any garment like this to provide one, not by a long short!
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I would have quite liked a free tent with the tent pegs I bought off them earlier on this year though, to be honest thinking about it. They're rather useless items without one, I do kind of feel!
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Link to other thread was posted merely to connect threads of similar subject matter, to aid and improve fast navigation for everyone through the OM forum. Regular activity! It was not posted simply merely to belittle you, but instead with the intention to be genuinely helpful to all!
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Lix Troll, I may consider the inquisitive and distinctly non-aggressive context in which you posted your original comment, rather than acting like a sanctimonious knob grommet, as you say but I couldn't really come to a conclusion as to whether the latter point really applies to you since I am unfamiliar with the epithet "knob grommet". As for sanctimonious, I don't think that describes you at all, parsimonious and quibbling perhaps but not sanctimonious. You are too hard on yourself.
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Parky, Mae flin 'da fi bach, senior moment. Mal.
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oooh! now he's speaking in tongues at me. MUUUUM! MUUUUM!
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What's that about tongues? What are you trying to imply?
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Good job he's not speaking in those biblical type tongues of fire though, meethinks! Or else poor Lix Troll might've been toast there maybe!
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 Fancy, warm and affordable? I'm sure.......... but completely out of stock on the L and XL sizes! 
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