Stio Peak Mens West Butte Insulated Jacket

In Montana we rake more pine needles than leaves—on account of fire season. It’s for that type of daily mountain town, kick-around work that the rugged West Butte jacket was built. (Also loading 34 pairs of demo skis into the truck so as not to trash the $700 Gore-Tex jacket.) The West Butte’s face fabric is 70-denier nylon, which to the hand feels like a supple canvas. The insulation is half recycled, which is 50 percent better than nothing. And the Peak logo is subtly placed on the coattail so you don’t look like a billboard.