Karpos Vision Evo jacket

The perfect jacket for intensely cold, snowy, and wet conditions, combines lightness, protection, and packability

of mountaineers from their experiences on the world's toughest mountains and walls. Each with their own feedback, all sharing three demands: lightness, protection, compressibility. The research and development department has worked on these three aspects for years, culminating in the Vinson Evo Jacket. The jacket is made with hybrid construction; the K-Dry fabric ensures waterproofness equal to a 20,000 mm water column and 70,000 g/m2/24h breathability, while Thermo Fleece panels on the hood, on the cuffs and inside the sleeve ends, and on the back inside provide comfort and warmth. Warmth is ensured primarily by the PrimaLoft® Silver Active insulation — 100 grams on the sleeves and hood and 130 grams on the rest of the garment. A comprehensive set of technical features in just 650 grams of jacket, which can be quickly stashed in your backpack when not in use, thanks to its compactibility.

Features

• Seam sealed hood and upper part of garment
• Hood finished with elastic trim, shaped visor with reinforcement, internal hood lining, and adjustable drawcord on back
• Front YKK® Vislon® zip and flap underneath zip with fabric to protect chin
• Two front zippered pockets
• Inside sleeve cuff in thermal fabric
• Adjustable drawcord at bottom of garment
• One inside zippered pocket
• One inside mesh pocket for skins
• Inside hood and inside back made of thermal fabric
• Main fabric:  100% polyamide
• Lining 1 fabric:  100% polyamide
• Lining 2 fabric:  88% polyester 12% elastane
• Pocket lining fabric:  100% polyester
• Insulation fabric:  100% polyester
• Insulation: 5/5
• Waterproofness: 4/5
• Windproofness: 5/5
• Breathability: 4/5
• Packability: 4/5

Technologies

K-DRY
The K-Dry family of fabrics was developed to offer protection from wind, rain and wet snow. Its distinguishing characteristics include lightness, water repellency, abrasion resistance, compactibility and breathability. K-Dry fabrics are available in two, two and a half, and three layers.

PRIMALOFT SILVER ACTIVE
Primaloft Silver is a synthetic insulation with very high loft and excellent thermal properties. It offers a very high warmth to weight ratio, it is very supple and extremely packable. Its insulation capacity and its highly water resistance keep the wearer warm even in wet conditions. Comfort and thermoregulation are enhanced by its high level of breathability. We have selected Primaloft Silver because it is well suited for the changing weather conditions of the outdoors.

YKK ZIPPERS
Karpos makes technical garments that are very durable, so we need to select the best components. For this reason we have chosen YKK®, the longest-lasting zippers in the world, for 90% of our garments.