Your companions and the environment will thank you for it!Įven our grandmothers knew that wool keeps us warm in winter – that’s why we all had those wonderfully itchy woolen jumpers. After the tour, you should simply leave your product to air, and you’ll be able to wear it again the next day. This is made possible by the protein molecules in the merino fibers which simply destroy odor-forming bacteria. With wool, you can get by with just a few items of clothing, even on mountain hikes lasting several days. There are, of course, thinner fiber diameters, although these cannot really be processed economically and, what’s more, they do not offer the stability required for alpine sports.” By way of comparison: a human hair measures approximately 50–100 microns, and the human itching threshold is 25 microns. At ORTOVOX we only use wool fibers measuring 18–19 microns (one micron = one-thousandth of a millimeter). Merino wool offers particular advantages due to its very fine fiber diameter and excellent durability. “We discovered merino wool in 1995, both for ourselves and for all mountaineers. They spend the cold winter months in the protection of spacious sheds, fed on nutritious dried grass.” From Grisons to the Valais, the animals spend the summer months on the alpine pastures and are only shorn in spring and in fall, in the traditional way – by hand. This provides an almost unlimited habitat and rich, natural food sources for over 400,000 Swiss mountain sheep.
“Swisswool comes from the harsh mountainous landscape of the Swiss Alps. The special features of wool fibers from Switzerland are their outstanding thermal properties and excellent climate control, as well as their regional origin.” “We have been working with swisswool in our insulation products since 2011. With the resulting system of wear comfort we provide you with unique functionality and wear-comfort properties for your mountain adventures.” Our expertise lies in our intelligent combination of natural material and other innovative fabrics. Starting from the first layer, right through to the third, we take a holistic approach and do not produce any garments without using sheep’s wool fibers.
That is more than a quarter of a century of experience in working with the most functional of all natural fibers. all pulled from “At ORTOVOX we have put our trust in wool since 1988. The word needs to be spread in the industry and around the U.S that ORTOVOX is much more than just beacons!Ī bit of history behind the line. I’ve had the pleasure of putting a few pieces of this gear through the ringer over the past couple of months and am extremely stoked on what i’ve seen. What I think most in the outdoor industry don’t know, or at least in the U.S, is that ORTOVOX has also been in the outerwear game since 1988! Which leads into exactly why I am writing this review. A company that has been around since 1980 as a top of the line manufacturer of beacons, the name is well known. Once he had a chance to stack miles and vert, I asked him to educate us and share his perspective.-ColinĮarlier this season I was blessed with the opportunity to start working with ORTOVOX as an ambassador/athlete. At the time I wasn’t aware they had a line. I wasn’t expecting to hear he was wearing Ortovox outerwear though.
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