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The New Coat I Said I Wouldn’t Buy: Columbia Buckhorn Bluff

By Adam ⋅ January 13, 2009 ⋅ Email this post Email this post ⋅ Print this post Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

I’ve had a McKinley coat for two years that has kept me warm in snowstorms, ice storms, rainstorms and everything in between. But at the beginning of this season I knew it was time for a new coat: my McKinley coat was permanently dirty, and it was torn up under both arms from carrying my board around. I soldiered on with my existing coat, though, because I really didn’t want to drop the cash.

But with the season now well underway, many sporting goods stores are having outerwear sales. So, knowing my Whistler trip was coming up, I decided to pick up a new coat for a $135 (taxes included). I settled on the Columbia Buckhorn Bluff snowboarding coat, though it took a couple of trips to different stores to get one in my size (medium).

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I was looking for something with a little more style than my last coat, which was a dark blue and looked pretty plain; the colour I ended up purchasing was a light brown, and not the grey/black depicted above. I look forward to trying it on the slopes next week.

Discussion

  1. Good price for that coat!
    Where’d you buy it?

    Posted by JB | January 13, 2009, 11:58 pm

  2. Oh .. Sportchek.
    (I should’ve checked the link first)

    Posted by JB | January 14, 2009, 12:00 am

  3. Yeah. I actually tend to buy a lot of stuff there.

    Posted by Adam | January 14, 2009, 8:03 am

  4. MY coat’s brown too – we’ll be coat buddies… that’s what they’ll call us.

    Posted by josh | January 14, 2009, 8:55 am

  5. The link you provided to buy the coat is broken. The coat is available on Altrec.com. Columbia makes some great affordable gear.

    Posted by David | March 4, 2010, 12:30 pm

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