Marketing for touring shells makes it difficult to pin down exactly who a jacket is for. Most brands advertise their shells as being “made for big mountain objectives,” whatever that means. (It could mean lighter and trimmed down for the fast-and-light crew. Or, on the other hand, beefier and burlier, since we associate ranges like…

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