Alpine Fit

Who launches a merino wool hat in the middle of summer?

This one packs down small enough to disappear in your pocket, but it's saved more than one chilly summit morning or windy boat ride. Base layer weight, one hundred percent merino, and one of those pieces a lot of you own more than one of.

New colors just landed and they were worth the wait. Link in bio!

– Jen + The Alpine Fit team

L and XXL in Forest have already sold out from our next batch of Fastpacker Fleeces! 🌲 We’re keeping a close eye on the pre-order quantities, it is obvious you are loving all three of these new colors. 🌊🌲🖤 Outer Coast Blue, Forest, and Black were each inspired by beautiful natural landscapes, from places we love spending time in outside.

Quantities are moving across the other colors and sizes too, so if you have a color and size picked out, I wouldn’t wait too long. I’m getting very excited to see these heading out into the world and onto your adventures!

Link in bio before your size is next 👀
– Jen + The Alpine Fit team

Your base layers could be lasting years instead of seasons and most of us are washing them wrong 🧺

We build these fabrics to hold onto their softness, their wicking power, and their odor resistance for the long haul, but the way we care for them matters just as much as how they're made. A few small habit shifts and you'll notice the difference every single time you put them on.

Save this one for laundry day, you'll thank yourself later 💧😉

Shop the collection at the link in bio!

– Jen + The Alpine Fit team

Getting to see the Fastpacker Fleece out in the world, on your trips, your trails, your backpacking adventures, and all the places you take it makes me so happy.

I spend so much of my time caught up in all the details behind the scenes, thinking about fabrics and fit adjustments and production and colors and what we’re making next, so it’s really fun to stop for a minute and see these photos and appreciate all the adventures these fleeces are already getting to go on. 💙

Thank you so much for sharing these epic pics with us, and please keep them coming because we genuinely LOVE seeing where you take your Alpine Fit gear!

And if you’ve been waiting for a Fastpacker of your own, the new colors are available for pre-order now at the link in our bio. 🌲🌊🖤

– Jen + The Alpine Fit team

We stopped the line when we started production and I want to tell you why.

We LOVE the Fastpacker Fleece, and so many of you do, too. We want it to be the most proudly perfect version in its best form, every time.

Let’s rewind a bit. We used to make everything ourselves in Alaska. We started the brand before covid afterall, and making things ourselves is how we survived and stayed in business, and grew our awesome community in Alaska. We also had complete transparency and control of every aspect of how things came off the line.

We work with contractor partners in California now (as well as still sewing a small amount in Alaska!). Our gear is all Made in USA, and special styles like the Fastpacker Fleece - the fabric too is fully Made in the USA.

As the Fall 2026 Fastpacker Fleece samples came in for approval before beginning production this season, something just didn’t feel right in my gut. It just didn’t have the modern length and fit that is what makes me feel so great in this fleece, in my hiking clothes, and jeans, traveling on a long road trip or through airports. We had so many people tell us how much they loved that special length and fit styling of this style. So we halted everything. Even though I was dying to get this style back in stock.

Then we had a good look at the sewing patterns, the original samples and production runs, the feedback from the first batches and the most recent batches, and with the full confidence in the quality control of the factory partner we are working with, we made some refinements to ensure we get that just right fit, and went through another round of sampling!

Sometimes the right call is difficult to make. You probably know this, but a small brand is indeed a small business, and if you don’t have your bestsellers in stock, you don’t have what you need to pay the bills. But if you don’t make a truly great product that people love, in our case, great outdoor clothing and accessories, you won’t be in business for the long haul!

So after a lot of measuring, testing, fitting different sizes on different bodies and asking a lot of questions, we landed on what I know in my heart is what this style is supposed to be.

It is a bit of a modern shorter/boxier shape than a regular old school basic mid-layer. There’s a little more length in the larger sizes, but not too much extra sleeve length. It has a generous hood so the shoulders don’t ride up when you wear the hood and turn your head to the side. It has thoughtful features like stretch mesh binding the hem, cuffs and hood opening instead of thick elastic, so everything breathes and dries as quick as the rest of the garment. Thumb loops, a pony tail exit and the magical Polartec® Alpha™ Direct 90 fabric. Chef’s kiss! Perfection.

All of this means we are producing the best version of this fleece we have ever made instead of one that would possibly disappoint me, or anyone. Instead, it will hopefully do nothing but impress you.

I guess this is what it looks like when a brand actually listens. I wouldn’t have it any other way!

– Jen