When I started writing about the best sailing jackets, I reached out to two skippers I know from the San Francisco Bay sailing community. Between them they log roughly 14,000 nautical miles a year across coastal races, deliveries, and one offshore passage per season. I asked them one question: which jackets have actually kept you […]

I spent the last four months hiking over 280 miles in Colorado, Washington, and the Scottish Highlands testing the best softshell jackets for hiking I could get my hands on. Our team wore each jacket on the same 12-mile loop with 3,000 feet of elevation gain to compare how they handled wind, light rain, sweat […]