A wonderful jacket let down
A wonderful jacket let down by terrible zippers. Look, I didn't think twice about the price of this jacket because I associate Sitka with absolute quality. The gear works, extremely well, and is priced accordingly for the materials and effort that goes into making each piece. But the zippers on this thing are maddening. They're not exactly buttery smooth, but whatever, plastic pulls and zips, it's fine. But on one pocket, the zipper consistently caught the fabric inside, ultimately tearing 4-5 holes in the liner. Then, it started catching a lot of fabric, every time I used it. The zipper pull has now fallen off, but the way Sitka designed the pocket, there isn't an easy way to reattach it (the stops of the zipper are sown over). So my insulation layer has a pocket that won't close. I've had this jacket slightly more than a month. I guess I'll sow the pocket shut? Probably for the best, even if I could get the thing back on the holes in the pocket would only get worse.