Midsummer in the Mountains

Other essentials

The Canyon Pile Fleece lives in the bag or tied around the waist through the afternoon. By 21:00, when the temperature drops ten degrees in twenty minutes, it earns its place.

The Boulder Pants are the kind of trousers you put on because they're comfortable, then forget about — which is precisely what you want from a trouser the day after midsummer celebration.

And the Tour Shell. Every year someone at the midsummer party is underdressed for the rain. Every year they know it was coming and chose optimism over preparation. Bring the Tour Shell. It packs flat and weighs nothing in a bag.