[pct-l] Tents....I know, I know, beating a dead horse

[Carl Siechert]

At 3 pounds, the weight is twice your target, but to meet the other
criteria, I'm not sure you can do much better than the REI Quarter
Dome T1<http://www.rei.com/product/761891>.
On our Washington section hike last year, my wife and I used a T2 and loved
it. Although we dislike sleeping in tents and usually sleep out, we had a
few nights of rain (In Washington? Really?) and a couple nights of
intolerable bugs (In Washington? Really?). Quarter Dome is (relatively)
light for a double-wall tent, easy to set up, and has some nice
features--not least of which is the ability to use the wide-open-view mesh
tent without the fly. (REI also claims that, with the optional footprint
groundcloth, you can set up the fly without the tent, which would allow you
to leave the tent body at home for much of the trip. I haven't tried it, but
knowing how the poles work, I'm not sure I believe it.)

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Bradley Issler
<bradley.issler at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Lightweight (obviously).  Preferably around 24oz. or less like the contrail
> tarptent, which does not have the next feature I really want:
> Ability to be used as just the net without the fly
> Bathtub floor
>
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