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Plenty of good choices out there a lot will depend on how much you want to spend. You could, of course, spend a ton for a high-end Gore-Tex jacket like Marmot’s Liquid Steel ($375; www.marmot.com).

My first job out of college was at Paragon Sports, just outside of Union Square. It was 2005. I'd been living in Colorado spending most of my time snowboarding, doing other outdoorsy things, so I was ...