As you are in SLC, try checking out Precision MountainWear outlets (unfortunately they are in town only around christmas time). They always have good deals on their knockoff gore-tex shells and they are pretty light if you just stick with the shells.

I have used mine in a daypack-three-day uinta trip during the summer, and as my primary jacket on a three day snow trip in the wasatch during Feb.
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-Casey
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