hey guys Scott Reekers here with Eastmans' hunting journals and today I'm
here in the high country doing a little bit of glassing looking for elk looking
for mule deer in a spot where some friends have some elk tags and today we
are going to dive deep into the Krypek Altitude series which features Schoeller
technology Kryptek is the only brand inside our hunting space that has
Schoeller technology and we are really going to talk about what that looks like
and make sure that you have an understanding and why that's something
you should look into for your own personal hunting gear
I'm wearing the
boar pant now this is exclusively in kryptek altitude pattern this green this
black and this gray matches very well all the patterns that you see and the
colors that you see up here at high altitude one of the pieces that's unique
about this is it's made from premium Schoeller fabric shoulder claims to be
the best textile manufacturer in the world
guys I'm a six foot five guy I'm not a little guy and this thing fits me well
generally speaking I wear athletic cut this has an athletic cut a lot of times
you're hiking in long distances to places in the high altitude that this
material is made for and so in being in places of high altitude takes work
there's a lot of work to get over 10,000 feet we're at nine thousand six hundred
seventy feet right now and so if it doesn't have an athletic
cut if it doesn't have a four-way stretch it's not going to be comfortable
this bora pant has both of those now getting to the technical side this bora
pant is covered in a DWR which stands for durable water repellent and that is a
Schoeller nanosphere technology that comes with that and so it's a great
material that does a good job of water resistance over the fourth of July I was
camping and we wore this I wore it and we got rained on literally every day I
wore the Bora pant out and in real world terms this thing did not let the water
through doesn't claim to be 100% waterproof it's
a softshell most soft-shells don't but on the same end with the Bora pant I
never got wet and that's that shoulder technology the Bora pants are also
suspender compatible I know there are quite a few people who like to wear
suspenders when they're when they're hunting and hiking so if that is you or
suspender compatible so these are also pants that you know sometimes your inner
thighs rub together and you can rub things and so they've got what's called
anti chafing labels inside and so yes it was really hard for me to actually say
this seriously and a gear of you but they work it's also abrasion resistant I
made a point while I was camping to walk through brush and see hey is this stuff
gonna snag nope it doesn't it's an expensive piece of equipment but that's
just it it's a piece of equipment it is a tool in your arsenal that is going to
make you more comfortable while you're hunting in the high country next up you
can see that I am wearing a softshell jacket in the kryptek altitude this is
the tora jacket this jacket is highly breathable 65% nylon
26% micro nylon which means it's going to move well again coming back to that
athletic cut you can see there's some stretch here you can move it's great for
doing things like this when you're glassing you're going to stretch right
in this pit area and you're going to move around if your jacket does not move
with you while you are doing that that's a problem and it's going to be very
uncomfortable and you're gonna find yourself torquing and contorting
yourself to mess with your clothing this particular piece has the Schoeller
dry skin technology well what does that mean in real world terms it means that
it's going to be breathable it's also going to be water resistant and water
repellent you can see there's some clouds that are moving around up here I
wasn't too worried about that because of the materials that I'm wearing right now
I'm in a situation where I'm not gonna have to go diving into my pack to get my
rain gear I've got a material that for one of these quick flash rain storms
that happen so often in the high country I'm equipped to deal with it quickly the
next piece of this this particular jacket is it dries very quickly with the
Schoeller technology and so all of those pieces make for a very functional jacket
that works very well I've got this directly over the Valhalla base layer
and so that's all I'm wearing right now and I'm very comfortable in a steady
wind with a lot of different weather systems going around what happens when
that inclement weather comes you want to be prepared and so with that the next
piece in the altitude series and I want to take a look at is the Bora jacket
goes with the Bora pants it's heavier than the than the jacket that I'm
wearing right now the Tora little bit thicker it's got the pit zips so if
you need to move around a bit but the coolest piece that this has is what's
called the sea change technology Schoeller designed their membrane so that
it would open and close and on the inside it'll open and it will allow
moisture to come out because your body you sweat okay once you start moving you
sweat and you need to be able to get rid of that well the sea change technology
moves it out but on the top it's closed so that the rain can't get in this Bora
jacket has that and kryptek has it labeled as waterproof jacket I can vouch
that I never got wet I can't speak highly enough about the softshell jacket
the next piece that I want to talk about is the takur rain jacket and pant I
got to test their jacket out quite a bit on several elk hunts I also had a friend
who wore it last year on an October 15th elk hunt we really have put that jacket
through the paces and these are the pants that come with it to match it I
really struggle with any rain pants that don't have side zips that go almost all
the way up this makes putting them on and taking them off very easy it's very
it's all about the function and the functionality and I love that feature
you can see that you're able to have more than one latch on this button
that's going to keep that tighter around your boots if you so desire if you don't
want this thing letting any water in just tighten it in closer so it will
also complement a set of gaiters really well also has the sea change
technology but this is a dedicated rain pan one of the purposes that I use my
rain pant for is breaking the wind when it starts getting really cold especially
towards the end of September that heading into the October and the
November seasons your rain gear functions as a fantastic insulation
piece now it's it doesn't have and carry like it would say like a primo loft
which kryptek also has with their ghar jacket it's not that type of insulation
but it's going to hold a lot of that air in and it's going to keep you warm so
this goes over over say a pants like this like the Bora you can add an extra
layer with this dedicated rain pant this is going to protect you more than what
is actually probably ever going to hit you in a single high country storm a
distinction that this pant has is being 100% waterproof it's claimed by kryptek
I've tested the jacket and it does fantastic in the rain I've tested it two
years in a row so the question about longevity many people ask well why do I
need a six seven hundred dollar jacket well longevity I've gone cheap on the
rain gear and when I've gone cheap on the rain gear it's not lasted me very
long and I end up buying several hundred dollar sets several hundred fifty dollar
sets and by the time it's all said and done over the course of three years I've
spent close to $700 on rain gear when I could have been one and done and still
be going with it that's the part that's really really really really really
important is that you will still have it and you'll have it for a lot longer now
how does the Schoeller technology how does it go about actually not letting
water in well one of the things that shoulder decided they wanted to do is
we're going to imitate nature what pieces of nature don't allow water in
and in a video that we're gonna reference in the description you can see
that they referenced pine well pine trees the needles they drip water
off well how does that work it never lets the water in to begin with and so
it doesn't allow it to bond this is not going to allow water to bond with it
that's how it stays waterproof and so oils and water are not going to
attach to this fabric in this material we went out for a photo shoot in some
rain and we tested this out and it was pretty cool watching all of the rain
just beat up and roll off the top of this in this pant in this jacket series
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