Cold Days

Incremental Advantages

in the Olympus 3.0

It’s not quite tits deep out there but that familiar kiwi cold – the one that shows your breath indoors and calls for a beanie at all hours of the day – has come a-knocking once more. With winter firmly underway, it’s time to make sure you have your mountain clothes dialed, so you can keep slaying no matter how cold it gets. Cold days call for a legit layering system, and with our vast experience of resort days, ski touring days, high altitude days and powder days – we know a thing or two about dressing for cold days. For big days on the mountain, our designers have created a heat-hogging technical merino capsule so you won’t have to come in from the cold: the Olympus 3.0 Series. Made from our warmest heavyweight 250gsm merino with strategic merino mesh panels for ventilation, the Olympus 3.0 is a heat-trap you can wear all day, no matter how hard you charge. During the Northern Hemisphere winter, our Digital Content Coordinator Daisy Maddinson headed to Japan’s North Island of Hokkaido to put the Olympus 3.0 Series to the test, whilst scoring some outrageously epic faceshots with Mons athlete’s Tuck Graham, Neil McNair and Sam Nelson.   “Now they don’t nickname the Land of the Rising Sun “Japow” for nothing. As a first experience of Japan, we were all in complete awe of how incredible the powder mecca truly is. Pinching ourselves daily, we were overwhelmed with how ‘sick’ everything was: the snow, the culture, the whiskey, the food, the design, the whiskey, the quiet humble nature of the Japanese people… did we mention the whiskey? In stark contrast to the volume of traditional life in Japan, we met every single day of the trip with cheers, yewws and wide, stoked-fuelled grins as we found the goods ten times over. Bouncing between the trees of Annipuri, catskiing with Niseko Photography and hiking the summit of Niseko Grand Hirafu – we shred our socks off and worked hard in our Mons. Through heavy snowfall, moments of bluebird and even brief periods of sleet at lower altitudes, we experienced the full spectrum of conditions on Hokkaido and were eternally grateful for the merino on our backs. As the first time wearing the Olympus 3.0, I was surprised by how comfortable I felt in the slim fit base. Using merino mesh panels and additional elastane, the Olympus moved and breathed as I did, even when I was slogging it uphill with skis on my back. I typically run pretty cold, but stayed warm, dry and comfortable for weeks in the Olympus 3.0. As a complete advocate of the relaxed cut of the Yotei Boyfriend, I was surprised by how much I liked the tight, technical advantages of the Olympus. It is without doubt the warmest and most reliable layering system I’ve ever used and I’ve got to admit, I’m a total convert. On the coldest days, I’ll be layering my Olympus 3.0 Longsleeve and Leggings with Mons usual suspects; merino blend midlayer, cosy merino socks and of course the never-hit-the-skifield-without merino neckwarmer. It’s an instant cold weather classic.” Photos: Sam Ingles  

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