jack wolfskin zima 2009 gb, Katalogi sprzętu turystycznego
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winter
2009
INTRO
3 - 34
Into the cold
TREKKING
35 - 86
TEXAPORE 3-in-1 jackets
36 - 49
Soft shells and windproof jackets
50 - 55
Trekking pants
56 - 61
Unlined TEXAPORE system jackets
62 - 63
Fleece jackets and pullovers
64 - 75
Base layers and sports underwear
76 - 79
Trekking footwear
80 - 83
Trekking rucksacks
84 - 85
HIKING
87 - 210
Extra warm TEXAPORE jackets
92 - 99
3-in-1 jackets and lined winter jackets
102 - 139
Down jackets
140 - 147
Soft shells
148 - 155
Fleece apparel
156 - 183
Shirts and blouses
184 - 185
Gloves, caps, scarves
186 - 193
Unlined TEXAPORE system jackets
194 - 195
Hiking footwear, hut shoes, socks
196 - 209
ALPINISM
211 - 250
Down jackets
226 - 229
Soft shells
230 - 233
3-in-1 and lined alpine jackets, alpine pants
236 - 247
Alpine footwear
248
Alpine rucksacks
249
URBAN OUTDOOR
251 - 280
TEXAPORE jackets
254 - 261
STORMLOCK and FUNCTION 65 jackets
262 - 273
Fleece and shirts
274 - 278
Leather footwear
279
CASUALS
281 - 290
Pullovers, jackets, blouses, shirts
281 - 290
FAMILY
291 - 351
TEXAPORE children’s jackets, 3-in-1 and lined
306 - 325
Windproof, lined jackets
326 - 329
Fleece apparel for children
330 - 338
Sports underwear and cotton pullovers
339 - 341
Gloves and caps for children
342 - 343
Winter boots, hiking boots, hut shoes and socks
344 - 351
REBOUND – A visit to Northern Uganda
352 - 353
Materials & fabrics info
86, 210, 250, 280, 354
Product index
355
Into the cold
finally begins to form itself into a plan,there is a sense of mounting
excitement. I let the word dissolve slowly on my tongue: A-las-ka.
Back in my student days when I was eking out a living working part
time in a mountain sports shop, everyone who knew me soon knew
the score: that guy is going to Alaska. Then, just as my plans were
beginning to take shape, I started working for Jack Wolfskin and my
Alaska trip, which I had always thought of as requiring a generous
allocation of time, was consigned to a distant future. A simple twist
of fate. Life can interfere with our plans sometimes; the important
thing is never to lose sight of them. Now, on the cusp of spring in
Europe, and far more than twenty years later, it is finally time to go.
The only difference now is that the dream has developed, the per-
spectives have shifted and the prevailing conditions have altered.
At the focal point of my travel plans,one particular concept begins to
crystallise. It is an idea that I am certainly not alone in associating
with Alaska – the cold! Perhaps it is the loss of the cold,the loss of the
“real”winter here in Central Europe brought about by our self-inflict-
ed climate change, which sends my mind on this trip to far away
places. There is a certain curiosity behind it all, too. Will I be able to
cope with the cold, to enjoy my trips into the back country when it
really gets bitterly,even brutally,cold?
As the destinations grow more concrete,a place called Talkeetna crops
up, the point of departure for a glacier tour into the Denali area.
“Latitude 62”sounds pretty good to me,interesting. I spin my globe,
tracing the line of latitude almost half way around the world,and end
up in…Northern Siberia. “Siberia”– that sounds even colder somehow.
I start dreaming again. When I first thought about an Alaska trip all
those years ago,the mere idea of heading for Siberia would have been
audacious to the point of recklessness – simply not doable,inaccessible
for political reasons.But now – now it is plausible!
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t begins with Alaska – in more than one respect. As the dream
I also realise that, apart from a little superficial knowledge, Siberia is
uncharted territory for me, a blank canvas. This is splendid; this is –
an objective! The only thing that Siberia and Alaska seem to have in
common is the idea of cold. If anything, Siberia epitomises the concept
of cold to an even greater extent. Is the Siberian cold different to the
cold in the north of the USA, I wonder? Thought begin to rattle
around my head. There it is again, that curiosity, the hunger to
acquaint myself with something new, to move through totally
unknown terrain. I study the maps and within a few hours have
cobbled together something approaching a plan. Maybe we could…yes,
I remember seeing that great documentary about the Trans-Siberian
Railway…let’s see what Siberian towns look like. Then what about
Lake Baikal in winter? And it’s not far from there to the Mongoli-
an border, is it?...
tifying a few little gaps in our range. I have now decided that I will
take my kids and a few of their friends with me on at least one of
the two trips. This encourages our product managers to suspend the
established rules of product development and to move mountains in
order to manufacture a few special products – sleeping bags capable
of coping with temperatures around the -40 mark, for example. And
since it really could get extremely cold on the planned full-day dog
sled trips, we stuff a little more fill into some of the children’s’ jackets
and pants as a precautionary measure. As usual, I do not take too
much trouble over my packing. I want to see how our standard products
perform under extreme conditions, so in addition to some tried and
tested items I throw a few newly developed products and some
prototypes into my luggage. For many years now, this gear testing
has provided me with a good excuse to go on one trip or another.
There is no better way of establishing what your products are capable
of than when you actually have to rely on them for a longer period of
time in the outdoors. And after all, it is these products that we all work
flat out for. Our product range is not an end in itself; it should serve
to make the experience of the natural world as pleasant as possible.
During my fingertip trip around the globe, I end up losing ten
degrees of latitude and gaining a second provisional travel desti-
nation – Irkutsk, latitude 52. Let’s just head there first and then see
what happens. The decision is quickly made. I gave up spending too
much time browsing through travel guides years ago. Discovering
things for yourself is much more exciting, even when, as is the case
with Siberia, this is not always without its complications.
And so, as the pleasingly cold European winter draws to a close, it
appears that I really am going to both Siberia and Alaska in quick
succession. The names of the initial destinations sound bold and
exciting: Novosibirsk and Anchorage.
I now have a dual objective linked by a common theme – the cold!
This appeals to the gear freak in me and just a few days later I am
sitting with the top guys in our product development team, iden-
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