12/15/22
So I’m writing this a few days after climbing in this shell (the day I recorded the nomic, dart, and laser videos) And I’ve got to say that this lightweight shell can really handle its own. For some context on the climb there was a open section near the top that was spraying water, and in one part that you have to climb through you just get drenched. I wore my softshell pants that day and I could feel water soak through and run down into my boots. So suffice to say it was wet, but even after climbing that section a few times I was surprised to see that my Storm 10 shell wasn’t completely soaked. And that’s when I started to change my mind on this jacket. As I’ve been pretty dead set on getting a R1 Techface hoody to climb in but now I think I will keep my Storm 10 as my main climbing shell.
Last season I had only used it a handful of times, and even when I went to review it I was looking at it as less of a climbing shell and more of an emergency shell. But that was dumb as the Storm 10 is totally a climbing shell, and it should always be regarded as that due to it’s inspiration, the M10 shell, a shell that was purposely build for the high alpine kit.
So going forward I will be using the Storm 10 as my main shell, I’m curious to see how the fabric holds up to the constant abrasion that a season of ice climbing gives. And before I finish this update I would like to say that the hood of this jacket works really well with the Petzl Sirocco helmet!