The Paladin Hoodie is built to perform, built to last, built in the USA. A rugged, technical, soft-shell hoodie designed for adventurous pursuits in cool to cold weather and made for those who are more than just capable. The Paladin Hoodie has ample freedom of movement by virtue of its 4-way stretch materials, blocks wind, is highly breathable, and shrugs off snow, damp and drizzle. Available in Universal Field Gray. #paladinhoodie
Paladin
pal·a·din [ˈpaləd(ə)n]
1. (noun) A knight, warrior, champion, and strong defender/supporter of a cause.
Purpose Built Built in the USA
Made in the USA with with tried-and-true, traditional industrial sewing techniques and fully stitched construction. Featuring our highly breathable, 4-way stretch Expedition Cloth soft-shell exterior and fully lined with our Guide Cloth, this hoodie is designed with numerous practical features for highly versatile use in the field in varied cool-cold weather conditions. The Paladin Hoodie is made for those are more than just capable, speak softly, carry big sticks and the self-reliant who can move with confidence in wild to dangerous places.
Details Make The Design
For over 26 years our Chief Designer has been creating some of the most sought after performance apparel made. From his own lifelong experiences in the wilderness to feedback from numerous individuals who have been embedded in the most rugged and unforgiving places on our planet, he will create these useful, practical, and versatile designs. You'll never find goofy stylized asymmetrical pockets or useless, decorative pleats on PDW's designs. If it doesn't serve a purpose, then it doesn't belong.
Carefully Considered
Extra details in the garment's design such as double reinforced elbows, gusseted sleeve pockets, additional storage pockets and the signature loop panels for morale patches, all add to the whole of the jacket. Our company Founder and Chief Designer introduced loop panels to technical apparel some 25 years ago and set into motion this functional design detail to be adopted industry-wide.
Form Follows Function
Our technical garments are an outcome of the academic functions required. This soft-shell hooded jacket is tasked with keeping the user protected against wind, chill-cold, and damp, or otherwise varied environmental conditions. While not a "rain jacket", this style blocks snow, drizzle and damp conditions from the user, while remaining highly breathable and highly mobile by virtue of the 4-way stretch fabrics used. The Paladin's strength comes from it's durability, versatility, and capability; very good at many things allowing the wearer to keep going, longer.
Expedition Cloth
The Paladin Hoodie is made with our custom Expedition Cloth. A specially milled, 9.1oz, soft-shell material that is exceptionally breathable, abrasion resistant, durable and stretchy. PDW developed this material to go the distance and like its namesake, is expedition grade where long service life is necessary to withstand the rigors of protracted field use.
Long Life
On average, PDW apparel is designed and made to last a minimum of 5 seasons. Durability, high level function, performance and less waste are integral to PDW's product mission. While actual mileage is highly subjective and based on an individual's use and lifestyle, we strive to build goods to last, beyond the industry's typical life cycle standards, and we do not subscribe to wasteful "fast fashion" or disposable consumerism.
Special Projects Division
The Paladin Hoodie is legacy design and made under our Special Projects Division label as a Limited Edition production run. The “Special Projects Division” is tasked with creating experimental runs, limited production editions, collaborations, tackling unusual design challenges, and creating unexpected but useful results that may often change and/or improves the nature of things in a particular context.
This is a well constructed 3 season softshell jacket. It’s bullet proof and although it has an athletic fit (which I like), it still allowed me to comfortably wear a couple of layers underneath. The hood is made to fit a helmet but by cinching the chords around and behind the hood, I am still able to wear it comfortably without a helmet. It has become my favorite go to softshell around town as well as my back country mountain hikes. I am 6’0” and weigh 200 lbs. The large fit me perfectly.
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Josh Keyser
Cool Southeast to Cold Utah
The Paladin Hoodie has worked well in low 50s with high winds and higher humidity of SE Florida (regular shirt no base layer) and even better in the 7,000 ft altitude of low 30s light winds of Utah (with smart wool base layer). Plenty of easy to access pockets. Good fit (size large, I’m 5’11” at 182lbs) and construction.
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Cormac Eubanks
Great Jacket!!
This is a well made jacket that looks great . It's got lots of pockets for storing stuff and I like that it is a little heavier fabric than most rain shells so provides a bit more warmth than a thin rain shell. My only minor issue with it is that the hood is a bit large and sometimes covers my eyes.
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Ryan
Great soft shell. Shorter than expected sleeves
Love this jacket. It’s stretchy and the breathable is fantastic. Not made for taller guys tho. The sleeves are a little short and seems to have more of a Tailored fit . I can still wear a long sleeve shirt underneath comfortably however.
I got a XL and I am 6’2 228lb. Maybe I should have went XXL. Regardless it’s a fantastic piece of gear.
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john waltz
Too small/ short
Really nice piece of gear but not made tall people.