Our ideas on the Nathan Pinnacle FeatherLite Vest
MICHAEL: The Pinnacle FeatherLite Vest is, properly, mild. Like, actually mild. To make use of Nathan’s phrases, this vest really does really feel like a second pores and skin. So, quite than slinging the pack over your shoulder, this feels extra like a specialised utility sleeve on your torso, making it a superb, pared-down selection for light-weight summer season runs and particularly races. Many of the pack is constructed with new materials for Nathan: a Energy Stretch Mesh’ that I discovered to be uniquely form-fitting but snug.
That is no sleeveless cutoff fitness center tee — it suits extra like a compression high however does so with out impeding respiration or feeling claustrophobic. This took some adjustment and getting used to, however over the course of some runs, I actually got here to benefit from the vest’s customized really feel. One in all my nice pet peeves is a vest that bounces (even barely), however after loading down the vest with a 500mL flask and an iPhone, the Pinnacle FeatherLite had no points.
After all, any vest this minimal nearly at all times suffers a lower in storage capability in comparison with extra sturdy fashions, and the Pinnacle Featherlite is not any exception. Over the course of my check interval, nonetheless, I discovered the comparatively small storage capability to be on no account limiting — this vest is completely able to carrying the whole lot I would like for 95% of my summer season adventures. It has two double-layered stretch pockets on the vest straps for snacks, flasks (20oz max capability), and a telephone, along with its beneficiant 1.5L again pocket, which is ideal for stashing a wind shell. Different little options embody loops on the shoulder straps to stow a delicate flask straw in the event you’re into that kind of factor and facet compression straps that actually assist dial within the match of the pack. Each sew of the Pinnacle FeatherLite appears to be there for a purpose, and to that, I say cheers to minimalism.
