[at-l] Need input on tent and sleeping bag selections

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Ticks are attracted to the CO2 we all put out and at night I just feel  
better enclosed.  No guarantee you won't drag one in with you but at least  in a 
tent or a tarp with a bug net your exposure is less.
David
 
 
In a message dated 12/5/2008 11:06:37 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
bror8588 at aol.com writes:

Skeeters  and ants?  Heck, what about scorpions and snakes?  What about other 
 critters?  Critters?  Heck, what about other hikers?   Oh,  the 
possibilities abound!
Skylander



-----Original  Message-----
From: Amy Forinash <amy at forinash.net>
To: at-l List  <AT-L at Backcountry.net>
Sent: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 8:26 am
Subject: Re:  [at-l] Need input on tent and sleeping bag selections


 On Dec 4, 2008, at 10:31 PM, EHamilton wrote:
 
 >
 > And I'm wondering about skeeters, ants, etc. coming in. I guess  
 > maybe ants sleep at night. (I get a reaction to fire ant bites, but  
 > I guess there aren't too many of those on the Trail.) Also wondering  
 > about rain coming in under the edges.
 
 This is the part I'd worry about.  Skeeters and gnats.  I like tarps  
 myself, but not when the bugs are bad.  During bad bug times you see  
 people hiking really fast, then when they make camp they throw up  
 their tent or hammock and dive in to get away from them.  You don't  
 have that refuge with a tarp.  You can carry some bug mesh but that  
 doesn't necessarily give you room inside it.
 
 >
 > You said an 8 X 10 keeps you dry in a rainstorm? How do you pitch it?
 >
 
 I don't know about Bruce, but I've always stayed dry under my 8x10  
 tarp - more so than in my tent or hammock, even, because I can get  
 farther away from the edges.  I typically set mine up as a shed roof,  
 or in a trapezoid during severe weather, with something propping up  
 the back a little to give me more foot room.
 
 -amy
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