What makes a waterproof jacket waterproof? I’ll be honest, this isn’t something I gave a lot of thought to before I became an outdoors journalist. After all, I spent the previous decade living in the Colorado Rockies, where it never rained.
Yes, I’m from Scotland, but that just means that I grew up being very used to getting wet on my adventures. Times have changed though, and while Scotland is still very wet, weatherproofing technology has come on leaps and bounds and in the last few years, I’ve got to test a lot of waterproof jackets and I’ve learned that these fundamental pieces of outdoor kit are a whole lot more than just a waterproof fabric.
