[pct-l] one person tent

[Jim Bravo]

I have a couple of favorite one-person tents, one being the Contrail.
I addressed the potential for a wind-driven rain getting into the
bathtub floor at the sides, as Diane talked about. It is easy and
lightweight. I sewed a small elastic loop at the top seam of the
bathtub floor about 2/3 of the way toward the front of the tent (on
each side). Then I take a length of Triptease cord and tie it to the
loop on one side. The cord then travels up the the peak of the tent
where the trekking pole is, you loop it there, then bring it back down
and tie it off to the elastic loop on the opposite side with a
taut-line hitch. I can know sit inside and easily adjust the height of
the bathtub floor on each side. The netting along the sides is forced
to form a nice big drip loop outside the footprint of the tent, even
in winds. the bathtub can go very high if needed. Easily as high as
the floor on my Big Agnes Copper Spur 1 (my other favorite one-person
tent), which has a very high/dry floor system.

I hope those of you interested in this method can visualize it...if
not, contact me offline and I'll try to do better.

Zinger

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes
<diane at santabarbarahikes.com> wrote:
>
> Gossamer Gear also made a spinnaker version of the Contrail. It had a
> Gossamer Gear AND a Henry Shires logo on it. I borrowed one of these
> for part of the trail, the rainy part. In my opinion, it was not
> nearly as good a design as The One. It was lower with less headroom
> (and I'm only 5'3") and the netting around the edges stuck out the
> sides and if it rained, water collected in the netting and went right
> inside the tent.