2 personal caveats I live by with floorless shelters:
1. Use an ultralight cot to keep my bedroll elevated and 100% dry.
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Do you have a suggestion?
2 personal caveats I live by with floorless shelters:
1. Use an ultralight cot to keep my bedroll elevated and 100% dry.
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Do you have a suggestion?
If you must camp on a slope, dig a ditch with a boot in a semicircle around the tent to divert water.
Ever use that set up in the winter? I have the vertex 6 and I’ve yet to use the stove. Spent a week in it this summer down in anchor point with rain for the first 6 days. No wetness inside.I've used the TI Goat Vertex 8 for about 10 years in Alaska and I have never had a problem with water flowing into the tent. I suppose it could happen if you pitched the tent in a swale or somewhere where water could collect, but that would be a poor choice regardless. As others have stated floorless shelters are great.
Does anyone pack a small folding camp shovel to ditch around the tent to divert water?
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Not shovels, but I heard some people use BD Whippets and find them handy around camp for rocks, water etc. but I have never used one. One more thing to carry.Does anyone pack a small folding camp shovel to ditch around the tent to divert water?
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How much weight do you want to carry?2 personal caveats I live by with floorless shelters:
1. Use an ultralight cot to keep my bedroll elevated and 100% dry.
2. Use waterproof storage bags for everything that has to lay on the ground in the shelter.
And a bonus points #3 is bring a small chair or stool so you can always sit above any wet ground.
I think a good glove and a gutter nail would workI’ve never seen a shovel mentioned on Rokslide before. Maybe in a Basecamp, but probably never in the Backcountry.
2 personal caveats I live by with floorless shelters:
1. Use an ultralight cot to keep my bedroll elevated and 100% dry.
2. Use waterproof storage bags for everything that has to lay on the ground in the shelter.
And a bonus points #3 is bring a small chair or stool so you can always sit above any wet ground.
Are you backpacking these items into your location? If not, then everything is an option. If so, then we have different priorities of what items are included in, or on, our backpack's base weight.