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Mountain Equipment Kalanka Jacket

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Mountain Equipment Kalanka Jacket
ME's new hood is a corker. It's designed to be big enough to hold a helmet and still allow full head movement and decent coverage of the face to protect against frost-bite and spindrift.

Our Review

Reviewed: 9 February 2011 by Jon
New for this winter, the Kalanka is Mountain Equipment's top-end alpine jacket and the only one in their range made entirely from Gore-Tex Stretch Pro Shell. It's other stand-out feature is the new Super Alpine HC Hood, which has been completely redesigned to make it truly helmet compatible in severe ...  Continue reading

Tags: Mountain Equipment, Gore-Tex Pro Shell

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Reader Reviews

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Overall reader score

Matthew Self
This is the most comfortable and useful jacket that I have owned. It is pricey but I still feel it's value for money.
It has kept me completely dry in appalling conditions. A fantastic jacket if you are active Continue reading...

Steve Rose
Can't comment much further, but the zips seem to let the whole jacket down.
(and bright blue on a black background? are they colour blind too?) Continue reading...

Discussions


Suilven
Nice jacket.....but would I be better off buying paramo ?

Posted: 16/03/2012 at 21:57


GOF

Of course you'd be better off with Paramo...stupid question...

(seriously, paramo is like Marmite, you like it or hate it.  I like both Marmite and Paramo)

Posted: 16/03/2012 at 22:37



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Highly effective new generation helmet hood, ingenious water-right zips, neat detailing, affordable for Stretch Pro Shell if not in absolute terms.
 
Sleeves are very long, fiddly hem cord adjusters and while £350 is on the ball for the expensive stretch fabric, it's still not cheap.
  • Price: £350.00
  • Year: from 2011
  • Weight: 560g
  • Website: www.mountain-equipment.co.uk

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