Gear: Obermeyer base layers

This season I decided to add to my clothing collection. So I bought some base layer clothing from Obermeyer, both a shirt and a pair of pants. Now I wish had I bought more.

The shirt, a zip-T, is oh-so-comfy, especially compared with the Marmot shirts I have been riding in for years; no scratchiness here. (To be fair to Marmot, perhaps the shirts have just aged.)

The Obermeyer UltraGear Pro base layers come in 3 models: 50, 75, and 150. Each number is successively heavier, and all use Polartec fabric. The shirts come either in a crew neck or zip-T style.

The pants are very snug around the waist, or as the company call it, they are “performance fit.” Perhaps the ski heritage of Obermeyer calls for a super-tight fit, but I could recommend buying one size bigger than you might otherwise (I picked mine off a chart in the catalog).