Thread: No longer a MacPac fanboy...hello Cactus

20 yr gortex??
I had 3 gortex jackets thru the last half of the eighties, all leaked like a sieve.
I know they went thru several generations of them, I had two. Helly Hansen and a couple of canadian/US ones. Total waste of money and this was walking round town, didn't dare take them into the woods with me.
Boots the same experience so have stuck with proven leather and grease/dubbin.
Best experience was coming back to nz and trying a 'Wilderness' brand (nz) Reflex jacket in 1990 and now its starting to weep at the seams.

You should frame that thing!

I'll never touch goretex again without some real assurances no matter who makes it.