[at-l] Re: silnylon

[thornel@attglobal.net (W F Thorneloe)]

Well, Kurt sends a section of Tyvek with his Nomads for use as a ground 
cloth, and the advice that you can reduce weight by trimming it to the area 
near where you will be in the tent. The idea of the ground cloth is to 
reduce friction and abrasion to the silnylon. For the expense of the 
material and the difficulty of repair, the idea is sound. For the real 
world, the stuff is so slick, you really will have trouble abrading it 
unless you really put effort into the attempt.

I am sure that a purveyor of tarps will want to sell a ground cloth or 
otherwise avoid a return for warranty service. I'd suggest a compromise 
with a small section of plastic or Tyvek trimmed to the appropriate size. 
The plastic might double as your pack cover, if you don't use the tarp for 
that already. I think it would be hard to get a ground cloth that would be 
heavy enough to lose the benefit from going to silnylon from hardware store 
blue tarp.

OrangeBug

At 01:44 PM 5/2/2001 -0400, Kenneth Knight wrote:
>I don't use a ground cloth with my Stephenson tent. I wouldn't use one if 
>I owned a Nomad. I don't
>use one with my tarp usualy (do others?).