[at-l] Tent competition

[lwbooher@halifax.com (Leslie Booher)]

I have a Gander Mt. dome that I started out backpacking with.  It weighs
maybe 6 lbs, but the fly is about the size of a thimble.  Used it several
years, though.  Then there was the K-Mart tent that I still love, a 7'x7'
square dome with a great rain fly (window at the back with an overhang and a
little "porch" on front---I like porches).  It weighed about 7 lbs and we
used it when there were 3 of us hiking together.  Then there was the almost
permanent loaner, a Eureka Sunrise or Sunset, 3.5 lbs, two person (their
feet overlap), that I used until my husband balked at not being able to sit
up.  Conscience finally made me send it back to my brother.  Next came a
Kelty or Sierra Designs thing that weighs 7 lbs for 2 people, but I got it
on sale at REI, and you can sit up in it and there's no overlapping.  Used
one trip because me husband finally decided that he wasn't ever going again,
anyway, and my hiking partner laughed at the idea that it's a two person
tent.  Then there's the purple Nomad.  Perfect tent.  The only problem is
that my hiking partner is going to be rejoining me this year, and I need
another two person tent.  Since I've gotten used to the Nomad, I don't want
to carry 7 lbs, even divided, so I'm looking into that Walrus (?) tarp with
the bug screen that was shown in the Backpacker Gear Guide for the splendid
price of $92.  And that's my closet full.  Leslie (anklebear)

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Wardecker <bakpakr@planetcable.net>
To: AT-L <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Date: Thursday, March 01, 2001 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: [at-l] Tent competition


>hehe I thought I had a few tents sheeeeeesh
>I have a Eureka Timberline 2 (one of the old ones)
>Sierra Designs Clip Flashlight ( the original one)
>Mountain Hardware Thru-Hiker (great but very heavy)
>And for my Thru Sierra Designs Light Year CD
>Bob
>A.K.A. Shakeyleggs GA>ME 2001
>A Bad Day On The Trail Is Still Better Than A Great Day At Work
>
>http://friends.backcountry.net/bakpakr/index.htm
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "kahley7" <kahley7@ptd.net>
>To: "Pat Villeneuve" <pvillen@imap1.asu.edu>; "at-l" <at-l@backcountry.net>
>Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 9:56 AM
>Subject: Re: [at-l] Tent competition
>
>
>> At 10:11 PM 2/28/01 -0800, you wrote:
>> >So how many do you have?...
>>
>> welllllll..
>> I still have the canvas cabin tent I had in my teens but in the spirit of
>Junk Yard Wars,
>> I cannibalized the poles to make sails for a canoe.  (woulda worked
better
>if the canoe had a keel <g>).
>>
>> It was replaced with a two room nylon jobby with chain corded poles that
>Hub and I used to do tattoos
>> at biker bashes.
>>
>> There is a Kmart 7 x 7 ft dome tent that weighs a remarkable 9.9 lbs that
>goes car camping but I lost the fly.
>>
>> There is a 7 X 8 foot Backcountry by Eureka that weighs < 8 that we use
>for car camping and 4 dog hikes.
>>
>> There is a 5 x 7 foot Mt Pass by Eureka that weighs < 5 goes for a two
dog
>hike
>>
>> There is a 3 x 8 foot Zephur by Eureka that weighs <4  which goes for a
no
>dog hike
>>
>> There is a Coleman Peak 2 which hasn't even been seam sealed yet
>>
>> There is the dog's new  Bug Hut which is still in the box because I feel
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