Field Test
120 grams, through four monsoons
We took the main-body fabric and refused to launch it until it had survived four monsoon seasons in the Western Ghats.
There is a version of this product that launched two years ago. It used a fabric that tested beautifully in a dry room in Bangalore and then went soft and heavy the first time it spent a full day in Sahyadri rain. We did not ship it.
Instead we ran the same 120-gram ripstop through four monsoons. Coorg in June. The Nilgiris in July. Two seasons in the hills above Mumbai. We weighed panels wet and dry, watched seams under load, and recorded exactly where abrasion showed first.
It is the lightest material we could trust on a day when the weather has an opinion.
The fabric you will carry is the one that came out the other side of that. It is not the lightest material we could have used. It is the lightest material we could trust on a day when the weather has an opinion.
Written by
Reuben Mathew
Field tester · Munnar
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