I lead week-long backpack trips in the Sierra, and have seen tarp tents on several recent trips. They held up quite well in some very wet conditions, I was impressed with how well they performed. They were from Henry Shire's site: http://www.tarptent.com Quite light weight, and would be just as useful on a bicycle trip, I presume.
Personally, I get by just fine with only a tarp and some rigging line, and stakes. - Andrew, Berkeley On Monday, April 15, 2013 2:56:48 PM UTC-7, Zack wrote: > > Hey all. > > I am currently contemplating picking up a Tarptent to fill a "need" for a > one person bike camping tent. I currently have the hennessy hammock, which > is fantastic but dependent on trees, and a big/relatively heavy/substantial > 3 person tent. > > I want to get something lightweight that I can use when I am going > somewhere that I am not sure about setting up the hammock. > > I am big (6'3") and don't want any part of sleeping in open air/dealing > with bugs, so would need to get one of the tarptents that actually closes > up in order to be able to sleep at night. > > Looking at the tarptent site, it's tough to determine which of their > options works best for what I am trying to do, so I figured I would ask you > guys. > > Any thoughts on this? Anyone have a tarptent that they don't use/don't > like and want to get rid of? > > Much obliged! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
