Arc'teryx nails it -- new apparel at OR in SLC

We've reviewed a whack of Arc'teryx items here on the site. We like their stuff a bunch–it's well made, sharp and Canadian. How can you go wrong? The new apparel for 2014/15 looks like they do it again. The bigish news (from our perspective anyway) is the expanded line of down-wear and zonal/composite construction on some of their jackets and pants.

Here below are just a couple examples to get you hungry before things hit the shelves (or racks) next fall.

Here's the Cerium SL Jacket–part of the down program. Tweaked a bit for for next year but launched in 2013/2014.

The Arc'teryx Ceres down jacket. More fill than the Cerium but with a similar mix of coreloft and down. N40p WINDSTOPPER is the outside fabric. I don't know if I'd put this in my pack as a down layer (because it weighs in at 835g/29.4oz)–perhaps more for the pub or an AST course, where I knew I'd be standing around in the cold.

The new Lithic Comp jacket and pant. The Lithic comes in red. blue and yellow. "Comp" in the name speaks to composite construction–the Trusaro softshell fabric under arms and on your back, with Goretex fabric on the hood, shoulders and front torso. Smart stuff. We are curious to see what the feel of the jacket is. Sometimes zonality can lead to a patch-work feel. On vera.

Just next door -- the Stikine Jacket and Sawatch Pants. An insulted verison of the Lithic (kinda) but without the softshell component. The buzz about this items is that the Thermatek™ insulation is actually bonded to the shell fabric. Cool! Or, warm, rather....

Finally, one more item that caught our eye–the Granville pack. Probably named after Granville Island in Vancouver, the Granville looks to be a watertight, urban assault pack. Arc'teryx's answer to the advent of pack-as-fashion-item espoused by Chrome Industries and others. Noice.