Scree Pant

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Hi, Mike Alkatis here of the Colorado Mountain School. We’re at Red Mountain Pass, next to McMillan Peak over there and Red #3 right there. We’re on a little guide’s training, and I’m wearing my trusty Scree Pants from Marmot. I really like them for ski touring; they’re lightweight, soft shell, breathe super well for when I’m aerobic, also keep the snow out. They have nice zippered pockets so I can put stuff in there – keep it safe and sound. Like what’s in this pocket … I think I have my iPod in here, you know; and I have my beacon in the side pocket right here. It zips as well – it’s key to have a zipped one if you’re going to put your beacon in there. Otherwise it might fall out, that’d be no good. And they also have this nice little feature where if you don’t have ski boots on you can zip this shut and it’s tighter. But with ski boots, you can unzip it, keep it over your ski boots. And … those are the things I like about the Scree Pant.

Hey, I’m Fabrizio Zangrilli, Marmot Athlete Team Member, and I’m out in Colorado doing a bit of ice and mixed climbing today. It was pretty warm this morning, and sure enough it’s snowing a lot now. We’re supposed to get another huge dump of snow, which is great for building ice climbs for the spring.

So today I want to talk about the clothes that I’m wearing for mixed climbing. I chose the Minimalist Jacket, which is a Paclite® GORE-TEX® jacket. It’s great for deep ice and mixed climbing cause it’s very, very light. Has Angel-Wing movement so my hands are above my head when I’m swinging, the jacket doesn’t rise up on me. It’s fully taped; it’s got great pit zips – so on the approach here they were open and I didn’t overheat – and the jacket breathed well. It’s very, very lightweight as well, which I love. The hood – obviously it’s snowing a lot and I need my hood up; it accommodates a helmet really well. So, it fits perfect.

I’m also wearing the Alpinist glove today, with the GORE-TEX® Xtra-fit technology. These have become my workhorses and I love them.

The other product I want to talk about is my Scree Pant. It’s a soft shell pant and is very, very dynamic, which is awesome for the kind of mixed climbing that I’m doing today. There’s no constriction in my movement, and they are very breatheable. Underneath I’m wearing a lightweight long underwear and a power stretch long underwear as well. I’m perfectly warm, these are the ideal pants for today.

Well ... no time like the present. A little bit of a slog to the bottom of the climb, but … let’s get going.

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Hi I’m Fabrizio Zangrilli, Marmot Athlete Team Member. I’m out here today in Rocky Mountain National Park on Flat Top Mountain with my friends Tom and Elizabeth. As you can see we’re doing a lot of aerobic exercise, training for K2. Ski touring I think is one of the best forms of training. Really gets your heart pumping, using your lungs, and the other benefit is with your arms and the poles. When you’re jumaring rope on a mountain like K2 where I’m leading a commercial expedition to in two months, you spend a lot of time jumaring; it’s a lot of the same action. You’d better have strong triceps when you show up.

Well today I’m wearing a new piece from Marmot, the Mica Jacket. It’s as light as a jacket can get. Fully waterproof, fully taped seams, the Marmot MemBrain, Angel-wing movement – so I can use it for rock climbing as well. It’s for snow sports. I love it, it’s so light. And if it’s snowing like this if I’m standing around, you can put the hood up very easily as well.

The other thing I’m wearing today from Marmot are the Scree Pants. These are phenomenal pants, I’ve owned them about a year now and I’ve worn them probably 150 days. They’re very, very dynamic, so I don’t feel any restriction in my movement of legs. Certainly not when skiing, but also when climbing I can really high step very well. They have a side, a short side zipper – makes it easy for me to get my Scarpa F3 boots on. So, great for climbing and skiing. Cinch them down nice and easy. Well, a lot of good snow to ski, so thanks for watching.

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Hi, I’m Marmot Athlete, Christian Santelices here in Torres del Paine National Park in southern Chile, and I’m going to talk to you about a few things today. First off on top here I’ve got the Catalyst Jacket. It’s a DriClime jacket, so it’s got light fleece on the inside, and a nice windproof shell with a light waterproof finish on it. It’s wonderful for Patagonia where we get a lot of high winds. I’m nice and cozy in here. It’s got a nice chest pocket on the outside where I can keep small items, or it fits a passport really nicely for international travel. A really nice thing about this compared to the regular DriClime is that I have some nice hand pockets. And again these are fleece lined, so it keeps my hands warm. And also they’re really useful for holding onto different things in there.

On the bottoms here I have Men’s Scree Pant. This is a really great – both trekking pant for like what I’m doing right now – but also I’ve been using them a lot for backcountry skiing. It’s got really stretchy stretch-woven material. The pockets are nylon, which makes it really slippery so it’s easy to take your hands in and out even when you’ve got long underwear on underneath. They zip closed, so oftentimes I’ll wear my beacon in here and attach it to a belt loop. It’s got a nice cargo pocket on the side. And here in Patagonia that’s where I keep my little wallet where I have all my essentials. Fits in the nice and securely, out of the way. Some of the small details – don’t worry, this isn’t going to get weird – on the snap here, one of the things I really like is it’s got a little bit of Velcro. So after I go and climb one of the towers of Paine, and I go back to the ranch and have a huge asado, I don’t bust out of my pants. And that’s really important. So, I’ve also got down here – I can expand these open, if I need to get in and out, if I need to change pants or what have you, I can get these on and off over my boots. This material is stretchy enough that when I put on ski boots, these go right over my ski boots. I can stretch them right over without a problem. Another nice feature, on the inside, I’ve got a little piece of elastic and a cord lock – I can cinch that up a little bit and if it’s warm it helps keep my pants up, I’ve got some nice knickers now.

Underneath on the top I’ve got a nice baselayer here. Just kind of the classic t-neck shirt. Gives me good sun protection. Also is a little bit warmer and I can also vent really well. Another nice feature is I’ve got this small chest pocket so when I go for a run I can put my iPod in there. It doesn’t bounce around a lot. A really nice piece; a really good wickable fabric. So come on down and join us.

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Adrian Ballinger is a fully certified AMGA/IFMGA Guide and runs Alpenglow Expeditions. This April Adrian will be guiding on the most famous mountain in the world: Mt Everest.

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