On one of my days testing this fleece out on the skin track, the weather was all over the place. I started off with my base layer, The North Face FUTUREFLEECE, and a small puffy over the top.

$180 The North Face Until recently, when The North Face released a near one-to-one reproduction of the Retro Denali fleece, the exact jacket that terrorized my parents all those years ago.

The North Face is dropping the word “sherpa” from the name of its fleece jackets this fall, using the opportunity to highlight the heritage of the Sherpa people.