GEAR REVIEW: Rab system – Shadow, Alpine Pull-On, Photon

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 UKC Gear 17 May 2010
[Toby in the Rab Shadow, 3 kb]Keeping warm at the top of Europe. Rab mountain clothing gets put through its paces in Arctic Norway:

• the Shadow Hoodie, a wind resistant technical fleece
• the Alpine Pull-On, an ultralight softshell

and the Photon Hoodie, a lightweight synthetic duvet.

Toby Archer reports from Arctic Norway: http://www.ukclimbing.com/gear/news.php?id=2685
 Sarah Stirling 17 May 2010
In response to Toby's comment about the Rab Shadow:

"My only criticism is that - like another reviewer - I've had some stitching fail around the cuff/thumb loop area. This will only require a few DIY stitches to fix but is annoying on a relatively expensive fleece. Pulling the cuff down to use the thumb loop clearly exerts a lot of pressure on one small area, so it would be good if Rab could reinforce the stitching around this area in future production runs."

Rab say:

"I’ve just spoken to Mark in the returns department and we’ve genuinely had one Shadow back with the thumb loop stitching problem. Apparently we have sold approx 800 of the Shadow so far so that’s pretty good. If anyone does have a problem send it back to us and we will repair or replace it no problem."

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