{"id":2450855,"date":"2019-11-07T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=315640"},"modified":"2019-11-07T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T02:00:00","slug":"gear-guide-new-gore-tex-for-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/gear-guide-new-gore-tex-for-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Gear Guide: New GORE-TEX for 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/gear-atw-110719-3-1024x682.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">It\u2019s a cold October day in Banff, and I\u2019m 200 feet above a scree field on the side of a cliff. Today, I\u2019m rock climbing to test a prototype jacket made with a soon-to-launch fabric from W.L. Gore &amp; Associates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">The jacket looks like any performance hardshell in my closet. But its fabric is a new iteration from the brand that decades ago launched a waterproof-breathable revolution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">A compound called polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) is the core material in Gore waterproof-breathable membranes. Microscopic holes let water vapor escape, but precipitation can\u2019t penetrate from the outside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">It\u2019s been 7 years since the company released a major upgrade to its PRO fabric technology. Perhaps surprisingly, the ePTFE guts of GORE-TEX PRO see no dramatic change for next year. Neither does the durable water-repellent (DWR) finish that makes water bead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Instead, the 2020 release focuses on fabric stretch and ruggedness. The brand will also unleash more freedom for designers to create jackets and pants in GORE-TEX configurations not offered before.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gearjunkie.com\/gore-tex-pro-2020-stretch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Click here (opens in a new tab)\">Click here<\/a> to read the full review.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Shirttail\"><em>Stephen Regenold writes about outdoors gear at <a href=\"https:\/\/gearjunkie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"www.gearjunkie.com (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/www.gearjunkie.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/magazines\/aspen-times-weekly\/new-gore-tex-for-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a cold October day in Banff, and I\u2019m 200 feet above a scree field on the side of a cliff. Today, I\u2019m rock climbing to test a prototype jacket made with a soon-to-launch fabric from W.L. Gore &amp; Associates. The jacket looks like any performance hardshell in my closet. But its fabric is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2450855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 21:36:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}