Columbia Hike Full Zip youth unisex

Usage:

• Perfect for accompanying young adventurers on their hiking trails, offering protection and comfort along the way.
• Designed to protect against drizzle and unexpected stains, keeping children drier and cleaner during their outdoor explorations.
• Ideal for daily wear and casual activities thanks to its comfortable and versatile design, adapted for boys and girls.
• Provides extra safety in low-light conditions thanks to its reflective details, making it suitable for dusk activities or cloudy days.
• Thanks to its stretchy fabric, it's an excellent garment for activities requiring freedom of movement, such as playing in the park or participating in outdoor sports.

Features:

• Equipped with an integrated hood that offers additional protection against wind and light rain, shielding youngsters' heads and necks.
• Features Omni-Shield™ technology, an advanced water-repellent treatment that resists liquid absorption and protects against stains, facilitating maintenance and extending the jacket's lifespan.
• Crafted with a fabric that incorporates stretch, ensuring a flexible fit and optimal freedom of movement for any activity.
• Incorporates strategically placed reflective details to improve user visibility in low-light conditions, increasing safety during use.
• Full front zipper design allows for easy donning and doffing, as well as offering customizable ventilation options.
• Universal classic fit designed specifically for youth proportions, ensuring comfortable range of motion.

Materials:

• Made with a blend of 91% polyester and 9% elastane. Polyester provides durability, wear resistance, and quick-drying properties, maintaining the garment's lightness. Elastane provides the necessary stretch for superior comfort and total freedom of movement, allowing the jacket to adapt to the child's activity and regain its original shape.
• Omni-Shield™ technology integrated into the fabric: This advanced repellency treatment helps the jacket's surface resist liquid absorption and stains. It acts as a protective barrier that causes water to bead up and roll off, keeping the wearer dry from drizzles and splashes. Furthermore, fabrics with Omni-Shield™ dry 3 to 5 times faster than untreated fabrics and do not retain moisture, which helps the garment remain lightweight even if it gets wet.

Eco-Certifications and Brand Sustainability Practices:

• The brand is a bluesign® System Partner, meaning it collaborates with the bluesign® system to implement more sustainable textile manufacturing practices, eliminating harmful substances from the beginning of the production chain and promoting environmentally friendly processes that are safe for workers and consumers.
• Adherence to Standards of Manufacturing Practices (SMP), which establish guidelines to ensure fair labor conditions, health and safety in the workplace, and responsible environmental management in the factories within its supply chain.
• Compliance with a Restricted Substances List (RSL) to control and limit the use of chemicals that could be harmful to human health or the environment in its products.
• The brand uses the Higg Index Facility Environmental Module (FEM) to evaluate and promote continuous improvement in environmental performance at its manufacturing facilities.
• Participation in the Social & Labor Converged Assessment Framework (SLCP), an initiative that seeks to reduce audit duplication through a shared social and labor assessment framework, promoting better conditions for workers.
• Columbia Sportswear is a member of the AFIRM Group, a collaboration of brands in the textile and footwear industry focused on reducing the use of harmful chemical substances in the supply chain.
• The brand is part of the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) Climate Action Corps, committing to measure, plan, and reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.
• Participation in the Clean by Design program of the Apparel Impact Institute (Aii), which promotes efficiency in the use of water, energy, and chemicals in textile factories.
• The brand implements a Material Traceability Program, seeking greater transparency and responsibility in the origin of its product components.
• Disclosure of its supply chain through the Publication of the Supply Chain Transparency Statement, in line with regulations such as California SB 657 and the UK Modern Slavery Act, to combat modern slavery.
• Adherence to SASB (Sustainability Accounting Standards Board) reporting standards for greater transparency in disclosing its sustainability performance.
• Commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), aligning its sustainability strategies with this global agenda.
• Use of the Open Supply Hub (OSH) platform to share information about its factories, fostering transparency in the industry.
• Additionally, the brand is part of various industry alliances and supports environmental conservation and social responsibility projects through its participation in: European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA), and partnerships with Planet Water Foundation, National Park Foundation, Conservation International, Captains For Clean Water, Ocean Conservancy, UK National Parks, Transition Projects and the Collegiate Outdoor Recreation Program. It also commits to responsible sourcing practices through initiatives such as the Turkmen Cotton Pledge and the AAFA & FLA Apparel & Footwear Industry Commitment to Responsible Recruitment.