Men's LF Hardshell Jacket
Men's LF Hardshell Jacket
Your ski touring shell spends most of its life in your pack, but when you need it, it has to work flawlessly. The LF Hardshell Jacket was built to deliver the ideal balance of weight, packability, durability, and protection for high-output ski touring. Lightweight enough to disappear in your pack, yet tough enough to handle rock, ice, and tree branches. Designed to balance breathability, a freeride-inspired fit, and purpose-built details for backcountry use. This is the shell we always wanted: one that performs like a top-tier alpine jacket but fits and looks the way we actually ski.
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3-year warranty
Duty free to EU and Canada
Free returns in US
Your ski touring shell spends most of its life in your pack, but when you need it, it has to work flawlessly. The LF Hardshell Jacket was built to deliver the ideal balance of weight, packability, durability, and protection for high-output ski touring. Lightweight enough to disappear in your pack, yet tough enough to handle rock, ice, and tree branches. Designed to balance breathability, a freeride-inspired fit, and purpose-built details for backcountry use. This is the shell we always wanted: one that performs like a top-tier alpine jacket but fits and looks the way we actually ski.
Product Walkthrough
LF Hardshell Jacket
Engineered Systems Elevating the Freedom of Human Powered Movement
LF Hardshell Jacket Fit
TourShell-01 Proprietary Fabric
YKK AquaGuard® VISLON® Zipper
Dual Chest Pockets
The TourTech Shell features two chest pockets positioned perfectly between your sternum and pack waist belt for easy access. Each pocket features a lightweight, laser-perforated woven liner for added breathability. Both chest pockets feature internal beacon elastic sleeves and webbing loops to securely hold your beacon, phone, or other essentials. No lower pockets are included, as your Raide pack already provides storage on the hip belt.
Fully Featured Hood
The helmet-compatible hood is fully featured with a protective, laser-perforated collar for ventilation, a hood cinch to keep the weather out, and a brim for directing moisture away from your face.
Two-way pit zips
Dump heat while touring with two way pit zips to make venting easy from any position.
30k/30k Proprietary Material
Introducing TourShell-01 — a research fabric developed exclusively for Raide. Engineered from the ground up for high-output ski touring, it combines a super air-permeable, hydrophobic polypropylene membrane with UHMWPE ripstop reinforcement for unmatched breathability, waterproofing, and durability. PFAS-free and rated 30,000 mm / 30,000 g, TourShell-01 delivers the rare balance of protection, structure, and packability that defines the future of mountain outerwear.
No Powder Skirt
Most ski jackets come with a powder skirt, but when you’re wearing a backpack your hip belt is already doing that job. To make the most purpose-built backcountry jacket, we did not include a powder skirt, or even a place to zip one in, minimizing bulk while maximizing packability and function.
Hidden Pass Pocket
We built a pass pocket into the sleeve of the shell without compromising weight or packability by adding a zipper. Inside of the sleeve there is elastic material bonded against the shell to create an envelope style opening just large enough for your pass for those sidecountry days.
Taped Seams
PFAS-free and rated 30,000 mm / 30,000g with fully taped seams for high-level weather protection in the worst conditions.
Hem Cinch
Keep out snow and wind with the hem cinch, tightening the jacket to your waist and increasing protection from the elements.
Cape mode
Ideal for blocking wind during high-output moments, a snap and laser-perforations at the neck keeps the jacket up to protect your face while allowing you to breath easy with your hood on while unzipping the front for extra ventilation.
Two-pack modes
The LF Hardshell Shell is designed to pack two different ways, depending on how you use it. For the smallest carry, compress it into its own chest pocket and zip it shut—perfect for pre-packing the night before a tour. In the field, roll the jacket into the hood, loop the shock cord around the bundle, and hook it to the included webbing for a quick, easy compression system.
So many great companies have designed hundreds of good mountain touring shells and Raide just blew them all away first go! How is a no PFAS fabric more breathable than anything I’ve had before!? And yet still waterproof!? AND it’s the lightest weight technical mountain shell I’ve ever found. You guys knocked it out of the park!
This jacket is so refined with well thought out features.
Super packable and lightest I’ve found relative to its weather protection and breathability.
The large outer breast pockets fit skins for big skis for quick transitions while keeping the jacket zipped up and a transceiver or phone stays put in the internal keeper pockets. The inner perforated fabric work as additional vents further extending the comfort range. The cut and fabric moves with me is if I’m not wearing a shell. That’s a new hard shell experience!
Pass through pockets lineup with the Tour Tech Hoody pocket or any other breast pocket on your insulation piece. The hood stays on in high winds and while straight- lining, while the perforated collar lets you breathe without it getting wet a collar on your face.
Snap at the top of the collar so you don’t have to have your collar wide open flapping around and can still vent your whole chest or where it cape style to dump more uphill heat. The pockets stay out of the way of your harness and you can easily reach the pit zips with the corresponding, same side hand giving you options to quickly and easily vent without fidgeting.
It’s so well fitted to provide room for layers, puffy and style without any extra bulky fabric.
The Tour Tech jacket is so packed with stealthy technical features yet looks subtly dope AF.
This is hands down the best real
Mountain touring shell ever designed.
It’s light, breathable, and comfortable—cuts the wind and snow well and only has a few frills (that don’t add much weight, and some people might appreciate them.) The hood fits well, the sleeves are long enough for range of motion, and the cuffs and drawstrings are easy to use with gloves on. Even though overall the jacket should be longer for how I personally like things to fit… it’s also not a crop top like some other jackets I’ve used and the length is functional. (6’2”, 185lbs, wearing XL jacket.)
The jacket is perfect, it has all the pockets where you want them and you feel like a pro in it. I even like it for resort skiing.
The jacket is very nice overall and a great match to the bibs. But I feel it is almost a bit overdesigned. No need for a fiddly pass pocket; the elaborate chest pockets add a lot of bulk; as does the neck vent. I‘d rather have the jacket be cheaper and even lighter over these features.
Got about 15 days logged with this new jacket and I like it a lot. It's very thin, insulated where you want it, sleeves and shoulders are durable where you want it and the fit is great. I typically tour with a wool t-shirt under and thats it. Super versatile layer.
Men's TourTech Shell Jacket
I'm always in search for the balance of functionality, weight, and durability. Congruent with all Raide products that I've used, this jacket is extremely well designed. I have been impressed with the durability for how light and packable it is. It is stormproof with all of the zippers and vents right where you need them.
Truly designed for ambitious movements in the mountains. This piece is the best ski touring jacket I've ever owned. full stop. Kyle and team- well done, yet again.
If you are thinking about buying this jacket, do it. You won't be disappointed.
Just spent 10 days with this jacket doing some touring in Japan and it was awesome. Had no issues with durability and found the jacket super breathable but also a great wind and waterproof layer. I do have a few thoughts that would be nice to see changed or adjusted in a future version. First thing is the inner mesh pocket intended for skins is a little small when cramming a set of skins in it. I found it pretty tricky to make both skins fit especially when I had gloves on and didn't have the best dexterity. Feel like you could add another mesh pocket to the other side and resolve this issue easy without compromising weight. Second thing I noticed was about the main zipper. I felt it got snagged a lot when I was putting it on or just zipping it up to pack it in my bag. Not a huge issue just a tad frustrating. Lastly, it would be nice to have a two way zipper on the central zipper for accessing bib pockets, accessing harnesses when the shell is on, and of course using the bathroom becomes easier too. Just a few thoughts but overall an incredible piece of kit and excited to purchase some more of the touring kit including a backpack soon.
Stoked on the jacket for a few reasons. First, I'm slowly looking to get rid of all gear has PFAS, excited to move to my first PFAS free kit. The fit is amazing, as a snowboarder, the fit is swaggy enough, but cut slim enough so movement isn't restricted. All the features work great. I don't have any concerns with durability, and I do plan on also using this for my resort days as well. The pass through pockets are neat. One small issue is that sometimes the zipper will get caught on the vent material on the top 2 inches, but will usually clear it after a second pull.
This jacket is great at what it's supposed to be great at. Lightweight, waterproof shell. I've paired it with a light down jacket as a midlayer for 10 degree resort days and had no issues. Looks great too! My only requests would be hand pockets and to make the pass pocket more accessible. But for backcountry tours, this jacket is amazing.
The fit, material, pockets and overall design are a 10/10. I love this jacket
I've tried almost every jacket out there from all the top brands and there's always something off. Pockets in the wrong place, bad breathability, you name it. This Jacket has zippers, access points, pass pockets, phone pouches and more in places I always dreamed of. Plus the fit is spot on. Nice work as always Raide team — keep it up!
Men's TourTech Shell Jacket
Great colour and material , only issue the material stain very easily and does not clean up. After three days looks old
But nice jacket
The jacket breathes really well. It also has a high level of functionality…lots of ways to vent, stash pockets and fits true to size. Highly recommended !
This jacket is checking a ton of boxes for me as a backcountry shell. It's very light and has some great features, including the passthrough pockets that act as vent. I run hot and this thing has been great to tour in even on the uphill when it's windy and snowy. I recently wore it on some active weather days on Roger's Pass and it handled a ton of moisture (exterior and interior) about as well as can be expected from any material, let alone something this light and breathable.
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