I had a set of danners with vibrant soles. They lasted about 10 years, and I got them resoled about every year and a half or two years. At that time, I was really hard on boots so that was pretty exceptional.

So not buy it for life, but tough for sure.

I have a Patagonia jacket I bought a few years back. It's well made and wearing really well, but that's about all the good I can say about it. It's not as warm as the very similar Columbia jacket I bought it to replace, and the DWR coating on it was not durable at all.

Also, the hood is helmet compatible, but the adjustment system isn't very good so the hood just doesn't work well if you're not wearing a helmet.

All in all, I wouldn't buy it again and I may end up replacing it long before I end up wearing it out because it just doesn't work very well. If I wasn't allergic to spending money it would be gone already.