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The North Face Gotham jacket is a heater like no other — it is a puffy down jacket from The North Face that will keep even the most anemic girl warm on the coldest of days. I should know — I finally got my wife a gift she is stoked about!
Okay, okay — I’m not terrible but I do admit to sometimes getting her a gift that’s more for me than for her. Like that Flip video camera? I thought she’d love it — which she does, just not as much as she would have loved a spa treatment. Me on the other hand? I’m using that Flip video thing every time I go skiing with my little boy so I can pull it out of my pocket & shoot pics of him.
So this Mother’s Day, get that special mom in your life something that will keep her warm when winter rolls around next year. Heck, with the way it is STILL snowing here in Utah, she may be pulling it out right now! Snowbird is open until June with a 134″ base this year, by the way….
I picked up The North Face Gotham puffy jacket for my wife last year, and she has loved it on the slopes — since she is chronically cold on the hill. I had picked her up a Marmot shell and (a fleece to layer under the shell) but in the Utah winters it just wasn’t enough.
In Utah, you really don’t need as much waterproofing on your outerwear as in other places like the Sierras or the Cascades. The snow has a water content of only a few percentage points, so it really just fluffs off of the jac...
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