Next next next GOP Target: Northface (edit: and Levi’s+Kohls)

NF quality took a downturn when they were bought back in the day. Still fine for most users...

 

I usually go REI over both North Face and Patagonia simply because their line is usually cheaper. I don't buy much anymore because I'm getting a little old for backpacking but I probably have about 5K worth of stuff in my backpack hanging on the bedroom wall.

 

Was gonna say. They got bought around 2000 by Vanity Fare (lol) and the manufacturing moved. Quality went way down. At the time I was working at an outdoor store and saw it all first hand. Columbia shit the bed as well, imo. People buying North Face weren't mountaineers anymore. Just private school kids who needed that North Face logo on their Denali jacket.

I also agree with folks saying Patagonia is a good brand. I've got some 20 year old capilene base layers I still wear. And a nice jacket.

Personally I've always been a Mountain Hardwear or Arcteryx guy, when it came to actual high performance gear.

I know nothing about REI brand. I worked at a small, independent store.

 

Technology and r&d has improved all the gear, no doubt

 

My wife & I were married in 1996. We registered at REI. We still have 2 backpacks, 1 headlamp & 2 (mostly retired) sleeping bags from our wedding. Got married in Tx & are fixxin' to go camp a few nights in Big Bend for old time's sake.

 

If sleeping bags could talk....

 

Outdoor gear and camping food has gotten way better over the years. e.g. who does big hikes in jeans anymore?

 

a somewhat Colo-centric insult.

 

My first section hike on the AT was in 1966 we did 160miles from Springer Mt to Fontana Dam if I remember right our backpacks weighed 45lbs without food or water and we were considered ultralight back then. I just took my 2018 backpack off the wall and weighed it, 10 lbs that included my trekking poles but my extra clothes & gopro are not in the backpack. I'm guessing those items probably weigh 3 or 4 lbs. You are right what was considered ultralight a few years back would be ungodly heavy by today's standards. I think a base weight of 10 lbs is about the standard for ultralight today.

 

I was just in one of their flagship stores in Seattle looking for a nice jacket. Expensive, but the quality looked pretty good to me.

 

I anticipate Northface is very aware of maga's various boycotts of products and threats against employees. And Northface proceeded with the ad anyway based on their market research.

 

This is a colo-centric attitude to think this would be a colo-centric joke.

C'mon, doc. Get ski woke.

 

I'll never forget when I was working at said outdoor store and they just came out with 2 ply gore tex. They were like, here's a fully waterproof, breathable jacket and it weighs like 6oz...

 

apparently Dick Cheney actually used to ski in jeans for real. What an asshole.

 

Been a member of REI for 50 years. they make good stuff

 

Anyone ask Boebert if conservatives are outraged by whores in general, and specifically ones getting knocked up when they are 16 by other 16 year olds. I mean, being all about family values and all??? Or maybe child abuse?? How about that, does that make conservatives upset?

Apparently conservatives are in favor of those things since she is the self-appointed spokes-whore/moron for conservatives.

 

I was already not buying North Face, because it’s shit. This commercial just verified that. Politics aside, what a horrific ad to run for an outdoor apparel company. I expect their brand will continue to diminish as the quality went years ago.