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First Ascent Guide Pants and High Route Shirt - REVIEW

  • 2012-05-14 09:39:53

    First Ascent Guide Pants and First Ascent High Route ShirtFor summer backcountry adventures you need cloths that are comfortable, offer a good range of motion and provide moisture wicking capabilities. It also helps if your technical cloths don't look too technical so you can actually wear them around town without looking like you just dropped off a glacier. Enter the First Ascent Guide Pants and First Ascent High Route Shirt. Both of these items are designed for hiking, climbing and mountaineering in the mountains spring summer and fall. They are guide-built (as First Ascent terms it) by Seth Waterfall who appears to have tested them on some of Americas iconic peaks.


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