Description
Men's Nightfall Jacket - Serious insulation for mountain camping.
If you spend a lot of time outdoors, and you're not the type to be forced back inside by the first signs of frost, then a good quality down jacket is one of the very best investments you can possibly make.
When you're getting really cold, the knowledge that you've got something in your rucksack that you can pull out, stick on and solve the problem - instantly - is incredibly reassuring.
If you're trekking and camping in the mountains, our Nightfall Jacket is pretty much essential.
You might not wear it much during the day, but as soon as the sun goes down, temperatures can drop like a stone - even in the summer. So, unless you're happy to get into your sleeping bag and go to bed at 7pm, you're going to need to carry something warm. A good down jacket can turn the evenings from a rather unpleasant battle of wills with the creeping cold into a pleasant, enjoyable, social experience. Sitting outside your tent, cooking a meal for everyone, watching the granite turn pink, thinking about the next day, telling tall stories and maybe even treating yourself to a small sip of whisky is what it's all about. And, if you're sitting there shivering, it's no fun at all.
Given the amount of insulation required and the fact that you're going to need to carry it in your rucksack, it's important that a good down jacket is as thermally efficient as possible.
And, on that score, our Nightfall Jacket really delivers.
It's filled with premium European goosedown with a measured fill power of 800+. Realistically that's the best that's both commercially available and practically usable. If you've not experienced down of this quality before, the result is astonishing - at first, it's hard to reconcile the weight and packed size you've felt and seen with the warmth and comfort it's capable of providing.
And the design of the Nightfall Jacket certainly maximises the remarkable properties of this amazing filling.
The shell is a hardwearing 100% polyamide with our advanced Durable Water Repellency finish. It's not water or rain proof - but in the real world, it really helps to stop the down from getting damp. The liner is a robust 100% micro-fibre polyamide - it's tough, down-proof and really comfortable.
The Nightfall Jacket features a large, insulated hood which adjusts for a close fit around your head. The hood is completely removable giving you the option to save weight in the mountains or smarten up the jacket's appearance round town. Fleece facings around the chin add a bit of luxury.
The full-length front zip features an anti-snag strip and a comfortable throat guard.
The two large front pockets are zipped and fleece lined for cosy, hand-warming comfort.
All the zips feature large, easy grab pullers which are easy to use with gloves or even big mitts.
The large zipped inside pocket offers plenty of storage capacity and doubles as a Packpocket into which the whole jacket packs for convenient stowage and transportation.
A Note on Fill Power Ratings
Fill power is the most frequently used measure of the quality of down. Deriving a fill power rating involves putting a one ounce sample of down in a test cylinder and compressing it with a weighted piston. The more resistant it is to compression, the higher its fill power rating. Essentially, it's a measure of how much the jacket will expand when it comes out its stuff sack (or Packpocket) - the more it expands, the more air it can trap and the warmer it is. Fill power is expressed in cubic inches per ounce - a lofting power of 400-450 is considered medium quality, 500-750 is considered good and 750+ is considered excellent. At Rohan, we like to use the best and nothing else - the down we specify has a fill power of 800+.
