Opinions on shell jackets?

Jarmo Hurri wrote:
Daniel-San The Precip has an elastic drawcord around the bottom --
Daniel-San easily cinches up.

That might work, but the best thing I've found so far is what I think
is called a drawcord at waist. Just tighten that and then lift the
bottom under the drawcord (on the inside, if you know what I mean). I
read the idea initially from some Finnish fishing board, and I think
it's simply genious.

Jarmo,

I still had my jacket in my pickup from my last trip, so I took a look
at the waist band on my Precip jacket. It does have an elastic drawcord,
and you can tighten it up snugly against your waist. The odd thing I
found was, there's no way to secure the drawcord tight. Looks like they
forgot to put a cord lock on the elastic cord. Anyway, you could go to
any hiking/camping store and buy cord locks for a dollar or two. Here's
what they look like:

http://www.rei.com/online/store/Prod...sea rchrefine

As a side note, some rain jacket hoods don't work very well, on their
own, or in conjunction with a hat. The Precip works very nicely with a
hat on, and ok without one.

brians