Re: [at-l] RE: Shelters: plus or minus?

Your still building a home in the woods. You want to get close to nature. 
Leave the tarp at home also. Sleep under the stars. 

Wildbill

In a message dated 11/15/2000 12:19:31 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
kahley7@ptd.net writes:


> I could not agree with you more!  I am no shelter rat for sure! To be 
> perfectly honest,
> I also agree on the idea that shelters dilute the wilderness
> experience.  I think abandoning hard walls is almost a must to really 
> getting
> 'in the woods'.  Of course that can be taken even further.  Once you try 
> tarping...
> stripping away those nylon walls ..really opening up yourself to the great 
> outtie, that's almost a rush!!!!  What is it about even 1.1oz silnylon that 
> changes 
> the experience?  For me, it's a biggie. Somehow..by surrendering those 
> walls I
> no longer have a nylon home but I feel so much more_at_home.....that the 
> woods
> are my home.  



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