All of them have hoods. I wanted the Transcendent not to have one, because that's the "light down jacket to use with my gore-tex 3L for everyday hiking and wet weather" and it's easier for a midlayer if it does not have a hood, but I kept the hooded one bc it's not an issue.


I don't think 488g is very heavy, though, since my CMP down jacket (my daily jacket for the current season) weighs 450g with the stuff sack and contains maybe 100g of down.

I'm considering a pair of puffy Haglöfs shorts (synthetics) for skitouring and camp sitting, but my legs aren't the issue.
With my merino first layer, I wasn't cold even up at 4'500m in Nepal, where people's drinking bottles froze..