Leland on Patagonia's Guide Hoody:
For those of us who like to fish furthest away from the truck, this guide hoody will
breathe throughout the rigorous hike and keep your ears warm once you get settled into your favorite honey hole.
Active anglers love this jacket and when matched with the Patagonia Torrentshell jacket you will be ready for all elements without packing in the closet.
Leland on Specifications:
When it is not quite raining on the river on those cold winter mornings, the
wind-resistance Patagonia Guide Hoody does the trick keeping your ears and head warm. This soft shell combines stretch, wind-resistance and high levels of
breathability with a moisture-wicking brushed interior with a chamois-lined collar. The left chest and two handwarmer pockets close with Deluge® DWR (durable water repellent) zippers, while the hood fits over a helmet or hat, adjusts with a single pull, and has a laminated visor. Sleek, simple, stretchy self-fabric cuffs and a dual-adjust drawcord hem seal out the elements.
Tapered to fit under your waders while leaving enough room for a few underlayers.
Specifications:
- Highly breathable, durable and wind-resistant, recycled polyester double weave fabric with 4-way stretch is treated with a Deluge® DWR (durable water repellent) finish for wet weather protection
- A single-pull hood construction features a laminated visor for enhanced visibility in poor conditions and helmet compatible
- Wicking, brushed interior for next-to-skin comfort
- Chamois-lined chin guard
- Pockets: two handwarmers with zipper garages, one left chest; all pocket zippers treated with a Deluge® DWR finish
- Low-profile cuffs
- Dual-adjust drawcord hem
- 7.6-oz 70-denier 92% polyester (47% recycled) double weave with 4-way stretch/8% spandex, with a Deluge® DWR (durable water repellent) finish. Recyclable through the Common Threads Recycling Program
- 660 g (1 lb 7.3 oz)
Leland on Patagonia's Outerwear:
With their origins in climbing and alpinism, it's hardly a surprise that Patagonia would build some of the best fly fishing outerwear on earth. That said, what we think will most raise your eyebrows when you try on these beautifully assembled pieces are not the slimly taped seams, the coated zippers, and the performance of the textiles employed, but the deliberate-yet-discrete fishing-specific design elements. These wading jackets and fishing shells are trim and sleek, free of dangling clutter and un-needed complication, yet they offer every feature that anglers have come to expect in a high-performance fly fishing jacket.
From pocket position and orientation, to accessory ring size and location, to wrist gasket design, to zipper choice and function -- the details of a piece of Patagonia fly fishing outerwear say volumes about the fishing experience and technical know-how of the team that designed it. In the Patagonia Deep Wading Jacket, as in the SST and the Men's Insulator Jacket, you'll find well-thought-out garment features, stylish minimalism, and that intangible-but-obvious merit that can only come from years and years of design and refinement. As in the past, Patagonia's fly fishing jackets, wading jackets and outerwear are today among the finest on the market.
Leland on Patagonia:
One of the most admired and emulated firms in the outdoor marketplace, Patagonia is also one of the stalwarts in the fly fishing industry. From its humble beginnings as Yvon Chouinard's piton forging business to its ascendancy as one of the major houses in outdoor apparel and equipment, Patagonia has been marked by the same commitment to well-designed, well-made product, the same dedication to corporate social responsibility, and the same finger-on-the-pulse outdoor culture -- for almost forty years now.
Chouinard, still the company's head and something of an enlightened monarch, is well known as an alpinist and a surfer, but is also an avid fly fisherman. Atlantics, cutthroats, permit: he knows what he likes for fish as well as for gear, and he maintains a hand in the processes of product design to this day. Patagonia is a founding partner of '1% for the Planet', a league of environmentally progressive businesses, and the firm demonstrates its engagement with environmental stewardship in other ways as well. To minimize the inevitable ecological costs of manufacturing, Patagonia uses recycled-content fabrics where possible and -- more to the point, perhaps -- makes products that will perform at a high level for years without the need for a replacement.
Patagonia on Guide Hoody:
The hooded version of the most popular stretch-woven soft shell, the Guide Hoody combines stretch, wind-resistance and high levels of breathability with a moisture-wicking brushed interior.
Hardworking and adept in any mountain situation - like any good mountain guide - this soft-shell hoody sheds winter weather, keeps breathing, and resists abrasion. The 4-way polyester/spandex stretch-woven fabric is wind-and-weather-resistant, stretchy, highly breathable and tough as nails on the outside.
On the jacket's sensitive side, a brushed interior and chamois-lined collar provide enough next-to-skin comfort to make even the aluminum-foil-chewing, burlap-underwearin' mountain guide sing and dance. The left chest and two handwarmer pockets close with Deluge® DWR (durable water repellent) zippers, while the hood fits over a helmet, adjusts with a single pull, and has a laminated visor. Sleek, simple, stretchy self-fabric cuffs and a dual-adjust drawcord hem seal out the elements. Cut trim but with room for underlayers. Recyclable through the Common Threads Recycling Program.
Patagonia on Patagonia:
Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis.
–Patagonia's Mission Statement
Patagonia grew out of a small company that made tools for climbers. Alpinism remains at the heart of a worldwide business that still makes clothes for climbing – as well as for skiing, snowboarding, surfing, fly fishing, paddling and trail running. These are all silent sports. None requires a motor; none delivers the cheers of a crowd. In each sport, reward comes in the form of hard-won grace and moments of connection between us and nature.
Our values reflect those of a business started by a band of climbers and surfers, and the minimalist style they promoted. The approach we take towards product design demonstrates a bias for simplicity and utility.
For us at Patagonia, a love of wild and beautiful places demands participation in the fight to save them, and to help reverse the steep decline in the overall environmental health of our planet. We donate our time, services and at least 1% of our sales to hundreds of grassroots environmental groups all over the world who work to help reverse the tide.
We know that our business activity – from lighting stores to dyeing shirts – creates pollution as a by-product. So we work steadily to reduce those harms. We use recycled polyester in many of our clothes and only organic, rather than pesticide-intensive, cotton.
