While guiding winter trips in Montana, I love these pants. I can ski or hike all day while wearing my shell and when I get to camp I just zip these on right over the shell and I am cozy all night. They pack small and weigh little. I can't believe I went so many years without this layer.

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I bought these pants to wear under a GORE TEX pant in the winter to add warmth, and to leave on when crawling into a tent in the winter after taking my snowy outer layer off. I actually now wear them around town in the winter, shoveling snow off the driveway, well you name it. They are warm and super lightweight. love love love them.

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I fell in love with these pants pretty quickly climbing in the cold dark grotto of East Vail's Amphitheater in Colorado. It's bloody cold up there (by Colorado standards), and sees no sun whatsoever. The long mixed routes separated by no hands rests in the middle make for long belay sessions. These pants make the experience completely tolerable. Also great if you are standing around teaching clinics, guiding, or going to a outside party in winter. The fact that they are light makes the reasonable to take along in your pack. That light material likely wouldn't hold up to much abuse if you tried climbing in them on say Birdbrain Blvd in Ouray. Of course they weren't designed for that so it doesn't come as a big surprise. I would highly suggest buying these for your girlfriend/wife if you're hoping to get them into ice climbing. That's the only way you'll be able to get them to put up with belaying your slow booty (censored by the system) more than once. :-)