[pct-l] Gatewood Cape

[Rick Ostheimer]

For those thinking about the Gatewood Cape, you might want to consider 
the similarly-configured Wild Oasis, also from Six Moon Designs, though 
the Wild Oasis will not double as rain gear.  On the plus side it has a 
fringe of bug netting.  I carried this shelter for the entire CDT and 
found the bug net fringe quite effective if I carefully overlapped my 
Tyvek ground sheet over the edges of the netting.  Usually, I slept with 
the door open and rarely did I have an issue with condensation.  On one 
of the rare occasions when I had decided to cowboy camp, I felt a few 
raindrops about 3AM and was able to quickly set up the tarp over top of 
my bivouac---an advantage of it having no floor.   I had it up during a 
freak mid-April snow storm in central PA and it held up while nearly 18" 
of snow accumulated on the ground, though it did sag into my face during 
the night until I slapped its sides whereupon the snow slid off 
readily.   ---Handlebar