{"id":4228,"date":"2010-03-01T09:24:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T03:32:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-01-17T13:30:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T20:30:52","slug":"montbell-ex-lig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/montbell-ex-lig\/","title":{"rendered":"Montbell Ex Light Jacket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At first sight it&#8217;s a nice-looking puffy jacket. Then someone picks up said puffy jacket and throws it at you. You put your hand out ready to catch a pound or so of duck-filled garment and then &#8211; <em>nothing<\/em>. Not what you expected. It&#8217; as though a helium balloon just brushed against your hand. It&#8217;s thick and puffy and warm, but it doesn&#8217;t weigh anything.<\/p>\n<p>And so began my love affair with the Montbell Ex Light Jacket. Not to be confused with its heavier cousin, the Montbell UL Jacket, the Ex Light weighs in at a scant 5.7 oz for a medium. Don&#8217;t expect frills such as pockets or hemmed waists, or the insulation and more durable exterior of a thicker down coat.<\/p>\n<p>I wore this jacket whenever I had a chance on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brettonstuff.com\/index.php\/category\/backpacking\/trip-reports\/wonderland-trail\/\">Wonderland Trail<\/a>. Rest stops, camp, heck I even slept in it on most nights. It&#8217;s a perfect complement to my lightweight summer bag when things get a little chilly at night.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, I&#8217;ve spent more time in this jacket off the mountain at this point. It&#8217;s so snug, so cozy that I&#8217;ve been living in it for most of the winter. It replaces my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brettonstuff.com\/index.php\/backpacking\/cocoon-vest\/\">Bozeman Cocoon Vest<\/a>, and for 0.4 oz more it packs a whole lot more warmth.  The downside is that I&#8217;m more vulnerable to rain as the Cocoon was synthetic and this is down, but I&#8217;ve found it to be a worthwhile tradeoff.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lightest down jacket<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9038,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228\/revisions\/9038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}