$60 Uniqlo Down Jacket vs. $400 Arc’teryx Down Jacket!

My Patreon is LIVE! Become a Patron and support my channel by clicking here: MGO stickers are now for sale! Click here to get yours: Can my cheapest down jacket compete with my most expensive? On the surface the affordable and insanely popular Uniqlo Ultra Light Down Jacket checks every box for a great backpacking insulation layer: it’s extremely light weight, packs down very small, and it’s full of 100% RDS-certified down packed at 750 fill power into its baffles. At $60 (on sale) it could be the best value down jacket on the market for hiking and backpacking if it is genuinely warm and durable. Now, to be fair, the Uniqlo jacket is definitely not designed for hiking and backpacking, but I had to know what could justify the $340 price difference between this jacket, and the priciest technical backpacking and hiking coat in my closet - the $400 Arc’teryx Cerium Down Hoody. I took both jacke