Filo Reviews

After a few months on the mailing list receiving timely email updates regarding the manufacture and air-freighting of the Filos, I finally was able to buy two at New Year : one women’s Filo in plum for me, and a men’s Filo in atlantic blue for my husband. As ever, Alpkit’s online ordering and payment system was a breeze and Fedex delivered via a tracked service to our door in France within 5 days. We are delighted with our jackets: warm, highly compressible, light, beautiful colours, good-sized hood, and decent-sized pockets, all the features we needed! Notably, we used them every day on a Kilimanjaro trek last month. My jacket was indispensable on summit night when the temperature was way below freezing with a vicious windchill.
In fact, I was a walking advertisement for Alpkit on the mountain, having taken the Filo, a Base sleeping mat, some airlok dry bags, a PipeDream800 (I know I sleep cold and wanted to be sure of being warm enough, which I was!) and a Gamma headtorch (which worked with the same set of batteries the whole trip). I am just delighted with the performance and value for money of all my Alpkit gear, so thank you!

hi folks
i would just like to thank you for your crackin jacket, i got it just before xmas and it came in very handy for the winter weather here in glasgow, i also took it banff canada with me snowboarding and ended up using on the slope as it was -30,s with a windchill down to the -40,s. a merino baselayer, hellyhanson lifa mid and the puffa was all that i needed to keep warm while sliping down the slopes. excellent value thanks again

The Filo jacket is fantastic, I have used it out climbing in Scotland this winter and has kept me warm and cozy on belays and the lunch stops! The carrot colour looks really cool to. Cant wait till next winter to get more use out of it.

Delivery was extemely fast even over the Christmas period.

Thank again guys

Lovely jacket at an affordable price. My filo kept me toasty warm in the chilly -20c of Russia in February. Particularly like the chunky plastic zip which was very easy to do up and meant I didn’t have a freezing metal zipper resting on my chin. Also the fitted design meant I didn’t look too much like a michelin man. Very happy with this product and would reccomend to anyone.
Thanks!

Hi,
Just wanted to thank you for the filo jacket I purchased for my husband.  He is absolutely delighted with it as I am with mine.  I’ve had mine for some time now and have made great use of it with all the cold weather, particularly before Christmas.  Thanks again for the great service and for always being so helpful.

The service and logistics was great. Jacket was sent quickly and I was kept informed at every step of the process. The jacket is great, it was -20°C yesterday morning in Stockholm and I felt really warm.

Now for the constructive criticism:
- a small holding bag would be handy to leave the jacket at the bottom of a tidy backpack;
- fleece inner lining for the collar would be confy for the neck.
- It may be useful to check the color calibration of pictures on the website. I choose the carat color. The jacket is sensibly darker and more orange than on the pictures (both on my office computer and at home). I like better the true color!

I have had this for over a year now, great on backpacking trips,lightweight can pack down realy small just the thing to keep warm in a tent when the snows outside and has been used in conjunction with the pipedream 400 on very sub zero nights. Gets a lot of general use as well seems to shrug off light rain no sign of the down lumping yet,the only improvement I would like to see is a waterproof breathable membrane over the shoulders for extra confidence in the rain.Pockets are a good size and it has a good length to the back, on cold days I have to watch the wife or it disappears. Once again an excellent good value product.

My jacket arrived the next working day as stated. Top quality item! Really warm and snug. Fits perfectly too so the size guide obviously works well. I’m just hoping it stays cold enough for me to wear it a little longer. If the sleeping bags are as good as the jackets then I will be investing in one before next winter. Thanks!

Filo arrived 24 hours after order - great job Alpkit!

Quality jacket - great fit and design. I’ve been ordering from Alpkit for a few years now and their products and service are consistently top notch!

I’m writing this review at the end of six weeks in Canada’s Western Arctic.  Temperatures have ranged from a balmy -5 to about -50 with windchill, and throughout it all I’ve been wearing my filo.

I’m about 5-11, and a 40 inch chest, and went for the medium.  On balance, a large size would have allowed for more layers to be packed on underneath, and I had difficulty closing the zip all the way when I had a hoodie and scarf on.  I managed to stay comfy at -50 wearing an icebreaker baselayer, microfleece and thin synthetic insulation gilet under the jacket.

So, good points: it’s stupidly cheap, decent pockets that can hold a surprising amount of stuff, really warm (it looks very insubstantial, but the down is so good it’s actually very very warm), longer over your bum, looks great, and it’s really cheap.  There’s no bells and whistles in the design, but it just works, which is really nice - the zips all have large teeth (small zips are a particular peeve of mine), and can easily be manipulated while wearing big mitts.

Bad points/areas to improve on - maybe it was me buying a jacket that was a bit on the small size, but the hood didn’t have the “head swallowing” capability that I would have really appreciated - even with the hood fully done up my face was still a bit exposed to the wind and cold.  Some fleece around the collar would be nice too.  A chest pocket on the right as well as the left would presumably be easy to integrate and would be really helpful.

I’ve perhaps been overly critical, but I really am very satisfied with this jacket.  I’d buy it again, and have been recommending it to everyone.  Really, really well done, guys.  Please keep up the good work.