Good factual breakdown. Own both. Patagonia works from Tropics to Winter climes. Arc’teryx won’t do tropics but equals Patagonia in winter sports defined environments its right at home. Street cred goes to Arc’teryx design. Patagonia goes anywhere anytime never looks out of place. Both last forever with few flaws.
It was a pretty sad deal overall. I shipped it out. They returned it. Claimed it needed to be professionally cleaned before service. They wouldn’t give a clear definition of professional cleaning. Then I sent it back and was told that delamanition was “normal wear and tear” so basically the pit zip had to stay fully open. Either way, never again
