This Waterproof Coat Doesn’t Use Gore-Tex (And That’s a Good Thing)

That was a well put together piece. I teach outdoors and have done for 25 years. My Paramo Anaolgy jackets have worked longer in more environments and outlasted every other (and I've tried everything!) jacket I have. The core truth is that nothing is waterproof always and everywhere. Paramo Analogy (well looked after) is drier longer and in more places and situations. Our entire outdoor staff (20 outdoor teachers) are issued Paramo.

Bought my first Paramo Analogy jacket over 16 years ago. This was after delivering an IT course to some guys from the British Mountaineering Society. I did a lot of walking and needed a new coat. They told me they all wore Paramo…never bought a goretex jacket since.

Designers could combine robust non breathables on contact areas with shake dry panels on non contact areas. I mean, your rucksack is not breathable so it’s pointless having breathable fabric on your back.

West coast Salish people wore hats and capes made from cedar. Kept them as dry as needed for survival and theybprobably smelled good too.

I’m just about to buy a totally waterproof coat from a New Zealand company called stormline. It’s heavy duty pvc. They make stuff for commercial fisherman and farmers. I want to be able to river fish for hours in the rain. I was badly let down by an expensive goretex wading jacket. Once bitten….

Paramo just need to make an xtra small size for men, even the small is too baggy 😢

What a load of nonsense, you can never be dryer inside your coat than outside? If that was true, the second it started raining you'd be completely soaked, which just isn't the case. I'm calling bullshit, I wonder why someone would say this, do they have some financial interest, hmm I wonder🤔

Having used goretex, when you are continually wet, goretex doesn't work and you get wet from your own sweat.

ok, but it wont work on a motorcycle at all. water would just go straight through. so it depends on the situation.

Vessi is better. It's not a coating, it's permanent, is breathable, and allows sweat out. No PFAS (forever chemicals).

Tried Keela?

It's all getting a bit weird. I keep getting these videos coming up in my feed, essentially slagging off Goretex.

I'm a scientist who spends a lot of my time in the field, in all weathers, mostly in the UK, but I've worked in the Alps, the Andes and in the rainforests of Malaysia.

I have never had a problem with Goretex clothing. Never. I currently use a Berghaus Goretex jacket and overtrousers and Goretex-lined Scarpa boots.

In my experience – outside, in the rain, and crossing bogs, dozens of times each year – I stay dry. Always. It can pour down for hours and the inside of my clothing and my boots will be dry. Because Goretex does seem to work, in practice, like it's supposed to.

I have no affiliation with Goretex, or with any brand, but I'm just fed up of seeing videos telling viewers that it doesn't work. Other proofing methods may be better and I'm willing to give them a go, but they seem to come in at much higher prices so I'd have to have a good reason to do so – and since my Goretex gear works just fine I'm not sure what that reason would be.

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Gore-Tex is not PFAS free and there is a big drive to remove all Teflon from all products due to Cancer risks associated with this product.

Gore-Tex is BS.
Many companies are developing alternative waterproofing technologies that are less harmful to the environment.