Black Diamond Dawn Patrol Pants Review

The black diamond dawn patrol touring pant is a high performance water resistant stretchy soft shell pant meant to be worn for backcountry excursions and alpine objectives.

Black diamond dawn patrol pants review.

A pet peeve of mine is overstated logos on backcountry clothing. Fit sizing i generally fall somewhere between a small and medium in softshell pants. Winter pants black diamond dawn patrol touring pants 199 1 lb. Finding one pair of pants for all of your backcountry skiing or riding snowshoeing and climbing adventures in the mountains from the frigid days of early winter to corn skiing on sun blasted slopes in april is a tall order.

Check great and honest reviews. A medium will have a looser more comfortable fit on me and can accommodate more layers but is usually a little too long. No matter how much i stuffed in there it zipped up nicely and without much added bulk. The compact nature of the dawn patrol was impressive.

Black diamond has been around for a few decades and is well known for their mountaineering climbing and ski touring hard goods as of fall 2013 bd is adding a full line up of clothes to their repertoire propelling them into the soft goods side of the industry. The dawn patrol ski touring pant follows the common black diamond design language of clean in this case that means few pockets moderatly roomy fit lightweight fabric. Buy black diamond dawn patrol pant men s. On a trip to banff national park i was able to take the new black diamond dawn patrol 25 pack for a spin across the resorts of sunshine village lake louise and mt.

The design is simple and clean and bd didn t waste time with a knock off but uses premium schoeller fabric to provide a level of breathability that prevents overheating on a climb but sheds wetness when it needs to.