[at-l] Re: Ground Cloth Question

[krk@speakeasy.org (Kenneth Knight)]

People have alrady mentioned Tyvek which really is quite durable and cheap. I'll add my positive
feelings toward the material.

But, I'm also going to toss this out: consider not using a ground cloth at all. If you take a little
extra care pitching your tent you can avoid the need for a ground cloth entirely. The main purpose
is to protect the tent floor from the ground. I suppose it does work, but I've found that if I'm
just a little more attentive I can skip the ground cloth entirely and that is what I usually do. I
do this even with my Stephenson 2RSLD which is a $550 tent.

  ** Ken **

On 5/21/01 at 12:09 PM, Andrew Peskin <andrew@aspco.com> wrote:

> I have a Mountain Hardware SkyView 3 tent and wanted to avoid shelling
> out $50 for a Mountain Hardware ground cloth.  Can anyone here give me
> any recommendations on how to construct my own, equally effective ground
> cloth for significantly less?  Any and all help/suggestions/advice would
> be most appreciated.

**  Kenneth Knight    Web Design, IT Consultant, Software Engineer  **
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