{"id":37,"date":"2009-02-24T16:21:37","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T00:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=37"},"modified":"2009-02-25T15:45:50","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T23:45:50","slug":"gear-question-of-the-day-what-are-soft-shell-pants-and-why-do-i-need-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/24\/gear-questions-answers\/gear-question-of-the-day-what-are-soft-shell-pants-and-why-do-i-need-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Gear Question Of The Day: What are Soft-shell pants, and why do I need them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.outdoorresearch.com\/site\/m_s_exos_pants.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"380\" width=\"180\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.outdoorresearch.com\/outdoorresearch\/images\/large\/55280_001_l.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Soft-shell pants are made of high-performance synthetic fabrics that are resistant to abrasions &#038; tears. They hold up extremely well to mountain abuse. They are typically water-resistant (not water proof) which means they are breathable and shed light rain and snow and dry quickly when they get wet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The question:<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 Are they required or will my ski pants, fleece pants or other synthetic pants work? Should they be insulated?<\/p>\n<p><strong>The answer:<\/strong> No they are not required, but strongly encouraged. Fleece pants or a combination of other synthetic pants or ski pants will definitely work. The big differences being efficiency, comfort, breathability and weight. Soft-shell pants should not be insulated. The flexibility of wearing or not wearing long-underwear makes insulation unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is you will spend every minute of your climb in these pants so comfort is key. Soft-shell pants are a must have for any serious climber!<\/p>\n<p>Our guides wear the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.outdoorresearch.com\/site\/m_s_exos_pants.html\">Outdoor Research Exos Pants<\/a> and love em!<br \/>\nStay tuned for more gear questions answered&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>-Tye<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soft-shell pants are made of high-performance synthetic fabrics that are resistant to abrasions &#038; tears. They hold up extremely well to mountain abuse. They are typically water-resistant (not water proof) which means they are breathable and shed light rain and snow and dry quickly when they get wet. The question:\u00c2\u00a0 Are they required or will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gear-questions-answers","tag-snow-anchors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}