If you’re after a really good buy, take a look at Patagonia‘s Rain Shadow jacket ($179). It employs the now-popular 2.5-layer construction, in which the inner “layer” is really just a raised pattern.

Well, it’s all relative. It can get wicked cold in the west—easily as cold as the minus-ten-degree temps you see at a place such as Whiteface Mountain. But I agree it’s probably drier in Colorado and ...