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Are there better waterproof fabrics than Goretex 18-Mar-2013 At 3:43:10 PM adrian

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One of the better resources I've found for gear reviews is the Cold Thistle blog:
http://coldthistle.blogspot.com.au/

While it clearly has a very alpine focus, if you search on there for jacket reviews you will get hours of reading about fabrics, technical features and design - not all of it transfers across to non-alpine environments, but there's a lot of generic information.

In my experience, some of the new Polartec PowerShield Pro and Neoshell fabrics are very good, and well worth looking at - I have a PowerShield Pro 'softshell' that sheds moisture so well that I almost never take out the Arcteryx Goretex shell anymore unless I'm expecting it to solidly rain for hours. Unfortunately the price tags on some of these new jackets are as you would expect for the latest and greatest bits of gear...