>>2424367There's a missing link between hyper-delicate shakedry and wetting-out 2.5L DWR shells: Columbia Outdry (the lightest weight of their fabrics). It's quite a lot less breathable than shakedry but more so than froggs toggs, MUCH tougher than both (seriously I don't know how they achieved it but I've dragged mine on barbed fences and through thorn bush without even a pinhole as it's so smooth/slippery). The hood design is pants, they keep retiring their best designs and their range is miniscule as it had very poor marketing (or maybe aesthetics) but it rocks the socks off my other much more expensive shells. I'd still use a faced goretex type 2.5L-3L for serious sustained bushwacking, granite climbing or the kind of skiing/boarding where you're likely to take a fall.
No where near the magic of shakedry but for $40-60 on sale it makes a mockery of froggs toggs and jackets 3x the price
>pic relatedin the UK there's a few places selling this outdry for ~£50, very light and well built has back vents which I had to stitch/glue closed and sew in pit zips instead.
