What is a good snow jacket for snowboarding?

Snow Guard on a Snowboarding Jacket?

• I just bought what I thought was a great snowboarding jacket but a friend at work asked me does it have a snow guard? I was ermm like no he said I need one the jacket I have bought is ...show more

• Answer:

  I only recently got into snowboarding, and im not quite familiar with the term. Maybe he is talking about a powder coat. Its another layer of material that is usually elastic that goes around the bottom of the jacket. When you are boarding in loose powder, a lot of snow gets thrown up and it can shoot up into your jacket. the powder coat prevents this. (also if you fall, you can get snow up your jacket) I have a powder coat on my jacket but i dont ride in powder so I dont ever use it. The NC mountains dont get a lot of good powder :( I hope that is what you were talking about. If not, I looked at all the specs, and I dont see anything wrong with it, you picked a good jacket in my opinion.