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How many use tarps instead of tents?

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My wife and I through-hiked the Appalachian Trail in 2013. We lived in a tarp tent together for 5 months. I’ve been considering how to implement my ultralight backpacking gear into my hunting system. Our tarp tent is sort of a combination of a tarp with a bathtub floor and mosquito netting. You have to use trekking poles to set it up, but it weighs in just over 2 pounds. Ours is made by Six Moons Designs. This may be a good option to take a look at. It was a life saver with all the mosquitos we encountered. Would not be good in heavy snow though. I’m 6’5 and fit comfortably inside. Also the double entry and double vestibules were great for storing gear. Zpacks is making some great stuff as well as TarpTent. May be worth checking out.
A T THRU hikers are just bad ass! Anybody that takes a half a year camping trip and decides to walk 2100 miles to the top of Katadin deserves to be call bad ass!
 
Hammock and tarp for me for the last ten years now never will o sleep on the ground again unless no other option.
 
I got a stupid question...
If you have a tent that requires raking poles to pitch. What do ya'll do if you need your trekking poles during the day? Yank them out then put them back when you get back to camp?
 
I got a stupid question...
If you have a tent that requires raking poles to pitch. What do ya'll do if you need your trekking poles during the day? Yank them out then put them back when you get back to camp?

Normally I’ll have two poles with me but I have yanked it out for the day and let the shelter lay flat or I’ll cut a pole if I can find the right size limb that will work. On a backpack hunt I’ll for sure have two poles because packing out meat you def want them lol. Not a big deal either way


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Normally I’ll have two poles with me but I have yanked it out for the day and let the shelter lay flat or I’ll cut a pole if I can find the right size limb that will work. On a backpack hunt I’ll for sure have two poles because packing out meat you def want them lol. Not a big deal either way


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Word. You usually just run one pole with your LBO if its the base/base?
Cutting a pole was what I was thinking. I'm digging the LBO so far
 
Word. You usually just run one pole with your LBO if its the base/base?
Cutting a pole was what I was thinking. I'm digging the LBO so far

Yep, one pole. Only need two if I have the base/tarp/base which is rare lol.


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I have never been out west for hunting, but I live in Illinois and do a lot of scout camping in the winter. I have the hennessey hammock with the built in bug net and the typhoon tarp. The tarp is basically a tent built around the hammock. I have a 30º underquilt and a 30º top quilt with the stove box. When it is between 30º-50º I will layer up with wool and stay warm. Between 20º-30º, then I put long johns and wool on and sleep with my under quilt and top quilt. My boys also have hammocks with the underquilt systems and we stay considerably warm in the temps I talked about. My oldest did however ask for a top quilt. Below 10º, I stay in a motel.
 
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