[pct-l] Big Agnes & condensation

[Craig Stanton]

Is that one peg per side? because you'd sill need pegs to keep the  
vestibule away from the inner door and to keep the fly out near the  
feet. I decided not to use the shorter attach cords so the inner mesh  
hung in closer and was further away from the fly.
As Switchback said it's a great tent with the fly off, but so far  
I've been in campsites and there are families around, I don't want to  
be woken up by some well intentioned soul telling me half my tent  
blew away in the night.

~Craig


On 1/02/2007, at 7:18 AM, msarahm at cox.net wrote:

> I haven't had any condesation problems with mine Seedhouse 1 SL.  I  
> use two cords and one peg to peg out the sides.  The shorter cord  
> connects the fly to the tent body with a little clip and forces a  
> gap of about 8 inches between the body and the fly.  Have you tried  
> that?  Admittedly I'm usually camped in dry areas, but it went with  
> me to Washington State last year for the northernmost section of  
> the PCT, and I was dry all the way.  I usually peg out the  
> vestibule and zip it when I sleep.
>
> Craig wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:54:12 +1300
>> From: Craig Stanton <craigstanton at mac.com>
>> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Big Agnes Carbon Fiber Tent Poles
>>
>> I found my Seedhouse SL 1 to be a condensation magnet. This last
>> weekend I slept with the fly unzipped and cut it down a lot, but
>> previously I've felt it dripping off the roof on to me. Maybe my
>> sleeping bag is too warm for the conditions and I'm expelling too
>> much moisture (I don't promise the science holds up on that) or maybe
>> the air can't flow around enough, either way I'm experimenting with
>> not pegging out the tub floor, and using my poles to pull the fly out
>> rather than down to the pegs.
>>
>> ~Craig
>
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