[at-l] Mountain Hardware Hammerhead 2

[ellen at clinic.net (Bob C.)]

Don't listen to the naysayers. If it works for you it is good. I've had a lot of
tents over the years. My favorite was a 1 # (? I never actually weighed it)
"sewed" tarp. Coated waterproof nylon, no floor, no netting, no zippers. Fifty
years ago, three of us once spent a week in it while retracing Thoreau's walk
along Cape Cod's Great Beach. By leaving the door ties, untied, you could
stretch it out to cover four people, as we did one rainy night on Bigelow. The
1948 cost? $3.95 mail order.

My second favorite. A six pound, two person (cramped) Moss, purchased in 1991
when I took a nine-year-old grandson on a 280-mile "thru hike" of Maine. It was
a "second" from the then Moss factory in Camden, Maine, though I have yet to
find the flaw. It has survived several thousand trail miles since, summer and
winter. It's never leaked a drop and has survived both hurricane winds and
winter blizzards, despite it's no-see-um screen roof.

Weary