
This New Wind Jacket Is the Perfect Summer Outer Layer
When summer temperatures rise the wind can still cut through and make you cold, making the wind jacket the ideal technical layer.
Tanner Bowden is a staff writer at Gear Patrol covering all things outdoors and fitness. He is a graduate of the National Outdoor Leadership School and a former wilderness educator. He lives in Brooklyn but will always identify as a Vermonter.
When summer temperatures rise the wind can still cut through and make you cold, making the wind jacket the ideal technical layer.
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