User Review: The North Face Mountain Guide Jacket
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Fabric: Taslan, Nylon & gore-tex
Price Paid: $400
This is a good jacket with some flaws.
First its virtues:
It is completely water/windproof, warm, and fairly comfy for a tall person. The sleeves are long enough to cover my arms when they're above my head (although my movement is more restricted than they say it will be in the literature). The length in the back is great, and the high abrasion points are well proteced. I personally really like the napoleon pocket and the double slider feature of the underarm zippers.
I owned a Mountain Light jacket for three years and whenever I zipped it all the way up, it would choke me. TNF seems to have alleviated this problem in this design
However:
TNF has crappy zippers. I own several pieces of NF gear and ALL the zippers catch on the fabric and are and incredible pain to zip up. The problem was worse on my Mountain Light jacket, and after my main zipper blew out and I hassled with North Face for about nine months, they finally agreed to replace my Mountain Light with a Mountain Guide if I just paid the difference. Then the exact day I got home with my brand new Mountain Guide, the bungee cord around the hem pulled out. Another month of hassles with the warrantee dept got me another new jacket.
One other feature that truly baffles me is the powder skirt. It works great if the jacket has no liner. But once you zip in either the fleece or down liner, they completely get in the way of the front closure of the skirt. This may have been designed this way but to what end I do not know.
Anyway, good overall jacket. The fleece lining makes it warm enough to wear in mildly cold temps without a liner, but it's definitely too warm for muggy summer conditions. I didn't have to pay full price for it up front, so I would suggest looking into comparable jackets from other makers if you're on a budget.
Where to Buy
Buy Online We found the Mountain Guide Jacket at 1 online store:
| Store | Product Description | Price |
 Altrec Outdoors | Men's Mountain Guide Jacket | $398.95 | Buy Now |
You may also want to check availablity with these other The North Face retailers:
- Moosejaw
- Campmor
- Backcountry.com
- Backcountry Outlet
- REI
- RockCreek
- Ramsey Outdoor
- Oregon Mountain Community
- Teton Village Sports
- Massey's
- EMS
- Sierra Trading Post
- US Outdoor Store
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