{"id":3522,"count":20,"description":"Lightly insulated jackets are a broad category that can encompass many jackets from the hybrid down jacket with breathable panels or minimal down, to the synthetic insulated jacket that has less bulk. These jackets tend to be pretty versatile since they aren\u2019t too insulated for the warmer days, yet can be used with more layering pieces for the particularly cold days. However, these jackets are often designed around a specific purpose like in-bounds resort skiing, hitting the backcountry or side-country, or they may have snowboarding specific design elements incorporated. <\/span>\r\n\r\nFor the 2018-2019 season there were a lot of new shells and highly insulated jackets on the market but a seemingly smaller number of lightly insulated jackets. Only two jackets were tested for the 2018-2019 season that fall under the lightly insulated category. Those two jackets are the Salomon QST Snow Jacket and the Outdoor Research Blackpowder II. The Salomon QST Snow Jacket is an updated version of an already highly regarded ski jacket. Despite having only two jackets for this category, testers were still able to consider how these lightly insulated jackets performed based in part on other new jackets for the season in the other two categories of heavily insulated jackets and shells, and by comparing them to lightly insulated jackets from previous years. <\/span>\r\n\r\nThe testing season happened to be a particularly snowy one in the northern part of the country so testers had plenty of opportunities to test the jackets on colder days in Montana and Canada as well as on the rare sunny day. The two jackets this year were primarily resort jackets which is in contrast to the previous seasons tests which had a mixture of resort, backcountry and\/or snowboard specific jackets. <\/span>","link":"https:\/\/gearinstitute.com\/ski-snow\/ski-jackets\/lightly-insulated-ski-jackets\/","name":"Lightly Insulated Ski Jackets","slug":"lightly-insulated-ski-jackets","taxonomy":"category","parent":3204,"meta":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Best Lightly Insulated Ski Jackets | Reviews and Buying Advice | Gear Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Our experts extensively field-tested the best Lightly Insulated Ski Jackets of the year and rated the best based on transparent, objective criteria. 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