Top Rated: Mountain Equipment Comici Softshell Pants (7.4 / 10)
Category: Lightweight (Under 350g) Softshell Trousers
With a few simple reversions and alterations, Mountain Equipment have a potential winner in their Comici softshell trousers. They need to copy the belt, pocket layout and double press-stud waist closure of their Ibex trousers and keep everything else the same. In doing so, Mountain Equipment would have the best lighweight, warm weather, softshell trousers in a marketplace currently starved of viable options (at least for those who actually venture into the mountains rather than just want to look like they do).
The Exolite 125 fabric provides an ideal balance between weight, durability and stretch and is one of the most rapidly drying materials we've come across. There's so much right about the Comicis, and really very little fundamentally wrong - but until Mountain Equipment fix that idiotic belt, we'll be looking for an alternative to substitute it as soon as we possibly can.