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[pct-l] Re: More about tents and tarps
Richard Winterstein wrote:
This sounds like a good system but I'm curious about
one thing. How do you
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have your ground cloth attached to the tent floor? Is it removeable
(in the
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field) so that you can store the tent and the ground cloth separately?
Even
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after letting the ground cloth dry in the sun and shaking it clean,
there's
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bound to be some dirt and debris stuck to it, no? If the ground
cloth and
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tent aren't separable, I'd be worried about some of this stuff rubbing
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against the tent fabric as I jam the whole unit into its stuff sack.
Or is
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this really not as serious a problem as I'm imagining it to be?
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Richard,
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I used a piece of lightweight paint drop cloth,
very thin, since it is only a vapor barrier.
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I cut it to the shape of the tent floor and about
1" smaller all around than the tent floor so portions of the cloth wouldn't
stick out.
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I attached it with strips of filament reinforced strapping tape: long
piece of tape, stick one end to one side of plastic, pinch the middle portion
together lengthwise to adhere tape to itself and then through the
tent ground loop; then stick the remaining end to the plastic.
I've only used my tent a little and so far I've not noticed a problem
with stuff getting in between the tent floor and the ground cloth. Will
pay more attention to this just in case.
John
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