[pct-l] one person tent

[Jim Bravo]

Diane:

Sounds like you're describing the Squall Classic, not the Contrail....

Zinger


On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 6:33 AM, Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes
<diane at santabarbarahikes.com> wrote:
> Aside from the lack of headroom and the strange way the netting poofed out
> the sides, it was indeed a good tent. I called it my airplane hanger. There
> was about a mile down below my feet that was never used except as a place to
> sweep the mosquito carcasses and it was so wide I could have my pack on one
> side of me and all the contents on the other side.
>
> It wasn't wind-driven rain that was the problem. It was gravity-driven rain.
> A tent where the top is smaller than a bottom and provides little rain
> catchers around the side is not a very good design, in my opinion. Also, the
> front beak was really hard to open and close without getting drenched as it
> used a strong piece of velcro and you had to stick your arm outside in the
> rain with your arm against the wet tent to velcro it back together.
>
> I don't know if my problems were because the tent was an older model or
> because I didn't have the rear semi-circular pole and had to just jam a
> collapsed trekking pole in the back end or if I was just inept. That's
> possible since I couldn't really figure out how to set it up the way it was
> sent to me with the ties already set. I had to untie it and try to figure it
> out lacking instructions or all the pieces.
>
> I carried that tent from Bend Oregon all the way to Canada, about 1/2 my
> entire 2009 distance, so it's not like it prevented me from finishing the
> trail or even that it didn't keep me dry enough. I only spent maybe one or
> two nights in any real rain in The One so it never got as much of a test as
> the Contrail did.
>
> Next time I'll do Washington with a tarp. I swear people with tarps actually
> looked a little bit drier than I felt.
>
> On Mar 16, 2011, at 3:31 PM, Jim Bravo wrote:
>
>> I have a couple of favorite one-person tents, one being the Contrail.
>> I addressed the potential for a wind-driven rain getting into the
>> bathtub floor at the sides, as Diane talked about.
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