[pct-l] Wild Oasis ( Re: Gatewood Cape)

[belcherjd at juno.com]

I second Rick's comments on the Wild Oasis.
I've been very please with the performance of mine in 40 mph winds with gusts to 70 last year north of Mt Laguna.
I've stayed dry in our Washington rain and one night had the same experience as Rick when the clouds roll in on me cowboy camping just north of Snoqualmie Pass. It took me about 2 minutes to put the tent up over top of my sleeping system. The rain woke me up and my down bag was very damp before I jumped into action but when I hit the trail about four hours later the bag was dry even though is was still drizzling on the tent.

I did have two mice crawl, under the netting, into the tent with me the next night and walked across my face waking me up. Anger set in but I missed them with my shoe before they escaped into the night .... at least I "think" they crawl back out under the netting. (all my food was in my Bearikade so it was safe)

Thank you Rick for the info on it snow worthiness. I was planning to test that function out this winter. Now I feel more confident in how it will perform out snowshoeing. 


Jon (Gandalf)
Marysville WA


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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 10:20:33 -0500
From: Rick Ostheimer <rick.ostheimer at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Gatewood Cape

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


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