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Hey everyone!
I'm new to this forum it's my first post. I'm an avid skier usually take two trips out west to Colorado each year. For the past 15 years I've been wearing a Spyder insulated jacket. It was pretty thick and heavy. At the end of last season I purchased a Marmot Storm King jacket which is considered a shell jacket and is not insulated. I'm going to Colorado in a couple weeks and I'm trying to figure out what underlayers/mid layers to wear to keep warm. Recently it's been cold here where I live in Chicago (from -10 to 10 degrees F) and I've put the jacket on with an underarmour compression fitting mock shirt and my Northface fleece, which is not super thick. In the past this is all I've worn under the insulated jacket and was ok. When I went outside in the cold by me with these two layers and the Storm King on I could feel the cold blowing through the jacket. My question is how many layers do people wear with these types of jackets. I realize it might not be this cold on the mountain...from experience it's been about 20 degrees with wind....but you never know. One year it was 0 degrees. I then tried putting on my thin Patagonia down jacket in addition to the UA and NF layers and was then much warmer...but it was a much bulkier look even though the down jacket is pretty thin.
Thanks
I'm new to this forum it's my first post. I'm an avid skier usually take two trips out west to Colorado each year. For the past 15 years I've been wearing a Spyder insulated jacket. It was pretty thick and heavy. At the end of last season I purchased a Marmot Storm King jacket which is considered a shell jacket and is not insulated. I'm going to Colorado in a couple weeks and I'm trying to figure out what underlayers/mid layers to wear to keep warm. Recently it's been cold here where I live in Chicago (from -10 to 10 degrees F) and I've put the jacket on with an underarmour compression fitting mock shirt and my Northface fleece, which is not super thick. In the past this is all I've worn under the insulated jacket and was ok. When I went outside in the cold by me with these two layers and the Storm King on I could feel the cold blowing through the jacket. My question is how many layers do people wear with these types of jackets. I realize it might not be this cold on the mountain...from experience it's been about 20 degrees with wind....but you never know. One year it was 0 degrees. I then tried putting on my thin Patagonia down jacket in addition to the UA and NF layers and was then much warmer...but it was a much bulkier look even though the down jacket is pretty thin.
Thanks