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Product News Breaking the winds this year, 66°North won the ispo Outdoor awards with its Snæfell Jacket. Since then, a lot of outdoor people have been waiting for the jacket to hit the market. tHe sNæFeLL JacKet from Icelandic 66°North is a waterproof jacket with good breathability that eliminates the build-up of moisture on the inside. ”Our aim was to create a softshell jacket that will always be the first choice when you’re on your way out in rough weather,” says 66°North’s Chief Designer Jan Davidsson. ”It’s a full out alternative to traditional three layer Gore-Tex-jackets.” Among the first to put on the jacket will be the Icelandic Search and Rescue teams, ICE-SAR. Recently, 66°North signed an agreement with ICE-SAR to specially produce the Snæfell jacket for its members. This means the rescuers will be equipped with an ergonomic jacket made from Polartec Neoshell, which is a new fabric that has the durability and stretch of a polyurethane film, plus the breathability of a micro porous structure. “its uNique construction allows positive air exchange to drive the release of moisture vapor while remaining completely waterproof,” says Davidsson. Other features include pre-shaped elbows, as well as seamless shoulders, ensuring an optimum range of motion. Snæfell’s performance will come in handy when the Search and Rescue teams perform their duties. Last winter the teams had 50 call-outs due to stormy weather. Sixty-four rescue teams participated in those call-outs and over 500 tasks were taken care of. 16 ScaNdiNaviaN OutdOOr NewS 66°NORTH’s new waterproof shell jacket is named after the volcano Snæfell in Iceland. It’s 1833 meter high and situated 20 kilometers north east of Iceland’s largest glacier, Vatnajökull. Leifur Örn Svavarsson, one of Iceland’s most renown mountaineers, mountain guide and member of ICE-SAR, tested the Snæfell Jacket while he climbed a new route to Iceland highest peak, Hvannadals hnúkur in Vatnajökull glacier. 66°NortH is oNe of Iceland’s oldest manufacturing companies and was founded in 1926. For the first 50 years, the company specialized in producing clothing for the harsh working conditions found aboard Icelandic fishing boats. Today, it works primarily with a more general outdoor collection; like shells, fleece garments and woolen products. However, 66°North still supplies work wear and functional garments to industries and national agencies like the Icelandic Police force, Fire department and the previously mentioned ICE-SAR. The cooperation with ICE-SAR, the largest volunteer search and rescue team in the world, has been going on for the last 40 years.
Primus goes lightweight and saves fuel with titanium Increased efficiency means less fuel consumption, less weight to carry along and a reduced environmental impact. No larger than the hand. OmniLite Ti measures 114 x 90 x 55 millimeters when packed. From the top of the world with the first team to summit everest in 1953, to the South Pole and everywhere in between, Primus has been there. Now, the company is taking their top of the line multi-fuel stove a step even further. tHe NeW LigHtWeigHt expedition stove OmniLite Ti is based on the same technology as the best-selling Omni- Fuel, but it packs smaller and, thanks to titanium, weighs significantly less. While the larger stove cooks for up to 4 people, the OmniLight Ti is suitable for 1-2 people. The development of OmniLite Ti started when Primus introduced its Eta pots, with a heat exchanger in the base. This resulted in the Eta pots saving around a third of the fuel and shortening cooking times. “But that also meant that OmniFuel became over-dimensioned for the modern pots,” says Urban Kihlström, head of R&D at Primus. “So, we made a smaller and lighter stove that had enough power for the new pots.” The result is a stove that weighs 239 grams – 100 grams less than the larger stove. And because the burner is smaller, you don’t need as much fuel, which also decreases pack weight. OmniLite Ti is the latest product that derives from Product News a research and development process that began just before the Swedish mountaineer Göran Kropp started his solo expedition of Mount Everest in 1995. Kropp realized that he was missing something important in his equipment. He wondered why there were no outdoor stoves that could run on any type of fuel? JoaKim gröNviK, aN eNgiNeer at Primus at that time, (then CEO for nine years) took on the challenge. After many attempts using different combinations of nozzles and different mixtures of air and fuel, he developed exactly what Göran Kropp was looking for: the Primus MultiFuel. With this stove in his backpack, Göran Kropp cycled from Sweden to the Himalayas, soloed Everest and became the first Scandinavian to climb the world’s highest mountain without supplemental oxygen. The new stove worked even better than expected and the prototype became a finished product. This was the inspiration for the continued development of what many people consider the world’s most advanced outdoor stove. Primus OmniFuel is the only outdoor stove that can burn liquid gas, gasoline/petrol, diesel, kerosene/ paraffin, and even aviation fuel. It was introduced on the market in 2001. In 2011, exactly ten years later, Primus has introduced the new Primus OmniLite Ti. “It has already been through extensive testing in Greenland and Svalbard and the performance has been just as good as the OmniFuel,” says Urban Kihlström. ScaNdiNaviaN OutdOOr NewS 17
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