Lightweight protection
The North Face Women’s Frontier Futurelight £360
Waterproof jackets fall into two camps: cheap crisp packets which make you sweat, or expensive crisp packets that don’t. The Frontier Futurelight lightweight waterproof jacket from The North Face fits into the latter category. It compresses down to half the size of a Nalgene bottle, and keeps you dry both inside and out, but for a fairly hefty price (although we recently spotted it on the TNF website with a sizeable 30% discount at £252). The Frontier Futurelight is remarkably waterproof for something that weighs just 295g, which is about the weight of a three-week-old kitten, for reference. In your pack, it stashes away into its own pocket, barely taking up any room. Yet it does the job fantastically when you get caught…
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Trail United Kingdom (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2024