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The guys at TREW are a hoot to talk to.  We met up with them last year at the Outdoor Retailer show in Salt Lake City.  They are entertaining, and are guaranteed to get a laugh out of you.  However, when it comes to the outerwear they make, things get serious, very serious.

TREW is based out of Hood River, Oregon close to the mountains for endless testing on their high end ski and snowboard jackets and pants.  They design and manufacture some of the best looking highest performance, beautiful yet functional jackets on the market with the dedicated enthusiast in mind.  TREW has always had their design and functionality aimed toward the rider that is focused, more than a weekend warrior and someone that is looking for the best in durability and design.

IN 2008 TREW saw a need in the Ski and Snowboard industry for Super High end backcountry gear that can stand up to the abuse.  As an off piste rider, you know how hard it is on your gear. Jackets being crammed in a backpack multiple times per day, used as a pillow in the yurt at night, zipped up for the hike from the road to the trail head, unzipped for the tour up, zipped up for the snowfall, unzipped the vents, zip the vents back up, you know the drill.  Not just any jacket from your local big box athletic store is going to last more than a season of the abuse splitboarders can dish out.  TREW knew the needs, a high quality, extremely weather resistant, high quality fabric and zippers, and throw in all the bells and whistles like powder skirts, media pockets, and comfy hoods.

As a niche brand, TREW only has to answer to themselves and their customers.  They choose the color ways they want and they set their quality standards, not limited by cheapening a jacket just to meet a price point.  Take a looks at the video below that shows the level of production and quality they strive to achieve.

The needs of a splitboarders outerwear are above resort riding outerwear. You can’t get a long riding the backcountry in tall-t’s and sunglasses for very long.

TREW Pow Funk Jacket Review

The PowFunk jacket is a high-performace weatherproof that is up in the night awesome. It has supurb ventalation, and heat containment when needed via cinch cords, and zippered pits.  You will notice the supple feeling on the inner lining while it is thin and light weight, it provides a soft breathable layer and comfort. Plenty of pockets for stashing beacons, hats, gloves, phones, passes, radios and more.

The jackets 3 point powder skirt we found to be compatible with many other ski and snowboard pants on the market if the TREW Eagle Pant or bibs are not your style. The jacket sleeves have plenty of movement and range of motion when correctly sized. All of the seams are critically taped and reinforced for never back down wind and weather protection.

What we love about the TREW Pow Funk

The jacket isn’t like anything else you see on the market today with it’s unique color way.  For a highly technical piece of outerwear, you can set yourself aside (face it, splitboarders already stand out).  We love the feel of the jacket, it has that GORE-TEX® feel to it. It’s soft where it needs to be soft, like in the chin. It’s waterproof where it needs to be like in the powder skirt.  The jacket is strong where it needs to be like in the reinforces seams and zippers.  Oh, and it has nice soft pockets.

The Pow Funk like the other TREW Jackets (Cosmic and Beast) cater to a niche that we all belong to.  It’s been the perfect jacket for daily tours. It’s light weight, easily packable, and provides the much needed storage of a backcountry rider.

We also love the discrete styling on the jacket and the attention to detail.  The zipper pulls are nice and grippy, chest pocket includes an internal mesh pocket for keeping smaller items from moving around.  Or the hand pockets that are HUGE, we store out GOPole in there, it extends all the way up to the upper chest.

There are a couple of downers, we wish the powder skirt was removable for those super warm days where you really just need the jacket for protection.  Additionally, as small of an item as it is we miss a key saver in the pocket.  We just love having the reasureance that we aren’t going to loose our keys when we forget to zip up our pockets.

Features

• Longer Cut
• Adjustiable over the helmet hood
• Huge internal stash pockets
• Pit Zips
• 3 point attachment powder skirt
• 3 Layer Fabric
  • Face: 140 Denier Nylon Plain-Weave
  • Membrane: Toray® DERMIZAX® EV
  • Backer: 20 Denier Nylon Tricot
• 20k/20k waterproof/breathable (Yeah 20k!)
• Shoulder pocket great for radio
• YKK AquaGuard® – a water repellent zipper with laminating PU on backside of coil zipper
• Microsuede chin
• Lazar cut Thumbs Up logo
• Only 27 oz

 Final words about the TREW Pow Funk Jacket

A great jacket to stand out from the crowd.  Coming from a great company that is catering to the environment and it’s niche riders. We TREWly feel like TREW is in it for the delivery of quality products and making something that can’t be found with other big name manufactures.

TREW Eagle Pant Review

With some snowboard companies refusing to put reinforced cuffs on their pants, because they are not a ski brand, we say thank you to TREW.  It seems that those “Snowboard Brands” may have forgotten about us splitboarders.  We too suffer from the constant hashing that comes from metal edges, splitboard hardware, and the constant movement that comes with touring.  If  you have put more than a few days on a splitboard with pants that don’t have reinforcement I’m sure your already showing signs of wear.

What we love about the TREW Eagle Pants

The same 3 Layer material as the TREW jackets and full integration with the powder gaiter make the Eagle pant a perfect companion. Easy waist adjustment if you choose to keep the belt at home, or don’t like it fighting against your backpack waist strap.  The double button waist is secure and there is no worry of popping button snaps when moving around.

We love the smaller and larger pocket size.  Perfect for stashing a wallet and phone separate.  Also, the well though out placement of the cargo pockets (one on the front of the leg and one on the side). We often like to carry different items in different locations depending on what we are riding and how cumbersome the item is, it’s just nice to have options!

The Eagle pant was recently upgraded to have a better range of motion.  It may be personal preference but we feel like this may have introduced too much bagg to the pant.  The cuffs have zippers but I can’t ever see using them, they are already so big to start with.

The downers on the Eagle pant is that the vents are a little small to dump the amount of heat generated when skinning up.  Also the fit was a little big/baggy for our preference.

Features

• 3 Layer Fabric
  • Face: 140 Denier Nylon Plain-Weave
  • Membrane: Toray® DERMIZAX® EV
  • Backer: 20 Denier Nylon Tricot
• 20k/20k waterproof/breathable DERMIZAX® EV membrane
• SuperFabric® cuffs and kick patches (This is tough stuff!)
• Zip mesh-lined inner thigh vents
• Zip hand pockets
• Flap thigh cargo pockets
• Zip accessory/stash pocket
• Double-button closure with zip fly
• Belt loops with hook and loop waist adjustment tabs
• 3-point powder skirt connection system
• Internal boot gaiters with gripper elastic
• Boot-access zip cuffs with snap covers
• YKK® Aquaguard® zippers on all exposed openings
• Laser-cut PU logos
• Hypalon® zipper pulls
• 26oz

Conclusion

If you are in Hood River, or at your local mountain and see a giant RV with Thumbs up on the side chances are it’s the TREW guys.  Stop buy and say hello, they will be glad you did.  We know there are other high end jacket manufactures out there, but we bet you would be hard pressed to find a better splitboard jacket and coat of this quality, fit, and function for this price. TREW supports splitboarders, check out their athlete Ian Woods latest post.

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