Re: [at-l] Advice: Mountain Hardwear "Solitude" <tent>

[tmcginnis@ucclan.state.in.us (Thomas McGinnis)]

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Subject: [at-l] Advice: Mountain Hardwear "Solitude" <tent>
Author:  Pokey <blewbayou@iname.com> at ima
Date:    6/19/99 6:57 PM
***Pokey wrote:
     
Does anyone out there have the Solitude? If so, how do you like it? Do you 
feel you could spend a long rainy evening in it, sitting upright, drinking 
tea and reading? Or is it more of a big bivy type tent?
     
Thanks!
     
     Sloetoe responds, somewhat sardonically....
     
     Forget the "long rainy evening", Poke. If it's raining, it'll be a 
     very tired throughhiker, probably somewhat cold, who marches into 
     camp. After securing water, lofting the sleeping bag, and doing 
     something about dinner, you'll be cashed out asleep, dead to the 
     world, and grateful to be off your feet. And grateful, too, that you 
     spent the time and money getting the lightest shelter you could find. 
     (Which is to say, most of the time you are hiking, your "shelter" will 
     be on your back; only a comparatively small part of the throughhiker's 
     day is spent "awake" in their "shelter".
     
     Sloetoe'79
     (definite "bivi" man)
     
     
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