Re: Tent Preferences
Nic,
A beach is not a good place for a tarp. A tarp works best when you can use
trees, etc. Both a tarp and tent work best when taut.
Critters running...
RMatth4505@aol.com 2003-02-26 11:08:50 #20146
Re: Tent Preferences
I like a tent that goes both ways. I just did a 5-day trip and had two nights with very high and gusting winds. My partners had a tarp and were miserable...
nic korte 2003-02-26 10:30:27 #20145
Re: Tent preferences
Marty, the tent I have is a North Face Slickrock tent. It is freestanding, and was the lightest freestanding tent I could find at the time. I don't remember...
Tina Caskey 2003-02-26 10:01:30 #20144
Re[2]: [grandcanyon] Tent Preferences
On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, 10:52:34 AM, RMatth4505@... wrote:
Rac> Some people have four sets of stakes for a tent;
Rac> snow, sand, short hard ground...
Larry Gray 2003-02-26 10:00:18 #20143
Re: Kanab Canyon
Just looked at your site. That chimney is not for me! If I do it, I won't take the short cut. Have ordered topo's...
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e.d. menkes 2003-02-26 09:55:49 #20142
Re: Tent Preferences
Marty,
If you consider that on many tents the vestibule needs to be staked, stakes
hold the ground sheet in place, and without stakes a tent is an expensive...
RMatth4505@aol.com 2003-02-26 09:52:56 #20141
Re: Kanab Canyon
Thanks!
I thought that although the trip would be longer, there would be less hassle in driving way out to Hacks area, particularly with sometimes poor road...
e.d. menkes 2003-02-26 09:52:35 #20140
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