replacing it for UL trips with a 3M Rainsheild Propore jacket.  They are inexpensive and very light.  They make a cycling specific model with no hood.  Kent Peterson has been using one of these for quite a while and he lives in rainy Seattle.  Maybe he will chime in with a link to his write up on it  I keep one in my pack, always, a


My problem with the Propore, when I tried it was that though it is VERY light, it's pretty bulky.  I had envisioned it as something I could keep in a jersey pocket on a long day out.  It can be carried in a jersey pocket, but only in an awkward, overflowing way. 

But my bias has always been as much about ultra-compact as ultra-light.

mac