[at-l] How important was freestanding for you?

[Carla & Dave Hicks]

Re: platform -- carry screws, for those that don't have tiedowns.

Re: On your hikes, how often have you needed / used the freestanding  
feature of your tent if you had one?   Not in the last 20 (or so) years.

Chainsaw


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Amy Forinash" <amy at forinash.net>
To: "at-l List" <AT-L at Backcountry.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 7:47 PM
Subject: [at-l] How important was freestanding for you?


I'm pondering buying a smaller shelter than my Tarptent Squall 2 for  
my thruhike.  In people's journals I keep reading about them setting  
up tents in shelters for protection from bugs, or setting up on a  
 where they couldn't use stakes.

On your hikes, how often have you needed / used the freestanding  
feature of your tent if you had one?  The only time I haven't been  
able to use stakes on my section hikes, I used rocks to secure mine  
(non-freestanding) tent.  But then again I've never been at a shelter  
where there was plenty of room for a tent AND the bugs were bad AND I  
had a reason to not want to set up on the ground (like mud).

-amy
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