PORTAL & GORE-TEX®: SHELTER TO STAY WITH THE WEATHER

A new tool for staying with the weather.

Portal and GORE-TEX® Brand collaborate on a waterproof jacket designed for moving through wet conditions, built with the lightest GORE-TEX® 3L Membrane.

Shelter when you need it.
Designed to disappear when you don’t.

— Lightweight. Breathable. Packable. Nothing extra.
— Pleated back panel for layering over a pack.
— 173 grams. PFAS-free. 10D ripstop nylon.

Sphere GORE-TEX® Jacket. Available Now.

Photography — @frauki
Words — @kadens.journal



Shelter doesn’t have to mean stepping inside.

It can be something you carry with you, as the weather moves in and the conditions begin to shift.

Not to remove you from the elements, but to let you stay in them and keep moving through.



When the rain settles in and the landscape starts to shift, you stay with it instead of pulling back.

You move within the conditions as they change, without breaking rhythm.
Without thinking, just continuing forward.

The only thing you notice is the terrain ahead, and how it keeps opening up.



Always there doesn’t mean always seen.
Carried lightly, almost unnoticed until the moment it’s needed.

Packed away as part of the system, not separate from it.

Pulled on without breaking rhythm. Light enough to forget. Reliable enough to trust.