As protection from the elements, especially during winter, is essential to outdoor performance, The North Face jacket provides warmth, comfort and athletic mobility to the successful outing. Breathable North Face jackets make outdoor activities more fun. As The North Face goes on to push the envelope in outerwear: designing pieces that are ideally suited to outdoor sports; utilizing innovative designs and the newest high performance fabrics; working with the most advanced technical developments available to ensure optimal comfort and protection, the end result is that The North Face Outerwear fits, functions and performs at the highest level.

   For 2006, The North Face Jacket provides a host of new developments to further enhance the outdoor experience:

   In which high performance matters most, The North Face offers a new sort of outerwear: every seam from hem to hood on these highly technical shells is welded for increased weather resistance, decreased weight (up to 20%) and improved comfort. Combined with The North Face tested and approved HyVent Alpha fabric, these innovative shells are really the top of the line in technologically advanced outerwear.

   The North Face jacket is constructed with 800 and 900 fill goose down, the toppest quality down commercially available. While the North Face premium down provides the highest warmth-to-weight ration, it is also the lightest weight and compresses the most readily.

   These extremely warm jackets also characterize The North Face exclusive down-filled laminated baffles, which are created with superior welding technology. Welding improves warmth and comfort by eliminating cold spots caused by thread holes and reducing overall jacket weight. In addition, water resistance is largely increased.

   HyVent Alpha is a waterproof and highly breathable laminate that utilizes microporous, hydrophobic lamination technology to retain its capabilities in even the most bad weather conditions. Its laminate membrane, which is consisting of nearly half a million holes per square inch, allows perspiration to pass through the North Face jacket before it condenses to liquid. It thus keeps the wearer dry, warm and comfortable.

   As fleece is no longer limited to layering pieces, new technical fleece now provides maximum durability and abrasion resistance in a soft, extremely breathable, water repellent fabric. Innovative hardface technologies apply an superior surface fusion polymer to classic fleece and it facilitates softshell performance with the comfort and warmth of the North Face jacket. The hardface overly increases abrasion and snag resistance and also enhances water resistance to light rain and snow.