After the near-death experience from stupidity exposure earlier this week, I gave in and bought some proper clothes. Well, a proper Gore Tex jacket. Bewildering choice so I decided the only thing to do was rate the various brands on how light, expensive, garish and ridiculously named they were, and the winner on all four counts was this number, the Arcteryx Alpha SV ( for “SeVere” .. like you, my resistance crumbled at this point ) in orange :
Orange
I still have some way to go before matching Simon, whose addiction to Gore Tex is bordering on a fetish, but I hope this keeps me dry. I’m also fairly confident I am unlikely to be the last one found if the fog descends again.