Fantom Reviews

Top notch jacket, very warm. build quality great. Was worried about the red at first but now Im sold!! Id like to thank Nick for his efforts in tracking me down a medium whach ended up not fitting after all (my fault entirely), and then exchanging without any quibbles. great customer service!
Sandy.

need a down jkt for my partner .she gets lost in my med jkt. she is 4ft 10in size 8. there must be a market for them. rest of kit is g8,running out of cuboard space

Excellent jacket. Very well designed, and at a superb price! Keep up the good work Alpkit!

I like it, but doesn’t seem to loft as much as previous alpkit jackets

Love the Fantom, haven’t seen a down jacket that comes close in terms of value and quality. And love the colour. Was initially very sceptical but retro red is the new black. Don’t go changing it. Electric red forever!

hi guys at alp kit i orderd a Fantom on sunday it arrived to day 3/7/07 very impresed with it so far looking forward to testing it out next weekend when bivying thanks again

sounds interesting. removable hood for the filo? and does that mean you could do away with the down filling completely for the phantom.

two birds in one stone if you do that.

cheers

ps just for feedback sake. i dont like two tone jackets. much prefer one colour.

Hi Simon,
we are playing around with a few ideas but nothing has been decided yet. We are also looking to make some changes to the Filo, which may include a hood, so we need to work out how they will stand together side by side. One thing we have been thinking of doing is using the Fantom model as the basis for a synthetic belay jacket, you can be sure Jim and Nick will be beavering away this summer.

hi aplkit

Are you planning to change anything else on the jacket apart from the colours?

Fill amount, fabric, cut or design details etc.

si

Need more photogenic colours, so a bright two-tone with black would be a good compromise - maybe not pea green, though. Too much black kit on the market these days, climbing photos are becoming monochrome!