Kifaru Paratarp Giveaway!

[Trout bum]

Cool shots! Wolfmen…Hoi sure can take some photos. Excellent pics. Thanks for posting.

 

[Jimbob]

I got a problem with this contest. I think it should be the worst photo that wins, that way it will go to a guy that really needs the shelter. LOL just having fun of course. I guess I broke the forum rules on my first post, no complaining eh?

On one trip I slept under a $25 poncho that wasn't big enough to cover my $20 bag from walmart. So i cut the bottom off a garbage and taped it to the top of another, I thought sweet I made a bivy for just a couple cents. After the first night I woke up in a wet sleeping bag, turns out garbage bags don't breath. The next night the temp dropped and i found out why they bag only costed $20 at walmart. LOL it was a fun trip.
Here's a pic on the first night of that trip.

This next pick is from a moose hunt My dad and I were on. Thats a fresh partridge roasting over the coals and frozen moose steaks that were thawing by the fire. The first night in I always bring some frozen steaks to roast over the fire. After that its mountain house and freezer bag cooking. This pick was taken a few years ago and its fun to look back and see all the gear changes and all the crap I wouldn't have brought if i knew what i know now. The frozen steaks always make their way into the pack though.

 

[Jdallen]

I think if you look inside the "garage in a box" with the stove pipe there is a Go-Lite shangri la 5 inside......Does this count LOL

 

[Shane Wright]

Here's my Carbon Reflex 1 on a bear hunt last August.

 

[MattEastman]

MSR Hubba laid out at 10000' + chasing deer in the Wyoming High Country

 

[hunt'n'photos]

The paratarp would sure lighten the pack!

 

[BigWave]

Aug of 2011. High country of Colorado, about 11,500. Big Agnes Fly Creek, Marmot Helium, etc.

 

[ceetoo]

A place we call "Long Ridge."

 

[Tigger]

Golite Shangri-La 5 with an Outdoor Research Advanced Bivy (inside) on the flanks of Mt. Hood.

 

[Tigger]

Golite Shangri-La 5 - Last week up at Demaris Lake, Three Sisters Wilderness in Oregon waiting for two days in 100+ mph winds waiting for it to clear up so we could make the last mile to Camp lake.

 

[Tigger]

Cowboy camping (no shelter) twenty two years ago at an un-named meadow that I call "Andrew Henry's Meadow" which is a small spot with some grasses on top of a ridge up in the Salmon Huckleberry wilderness area, Mt. Hood.

 

[luke johnson]

Evolution:

Poncho

10x8 space blanket

12x10 tarp

Kifaru Sawtooth

And there were some other ersatz/ homemade shelters thrown in there along the way.

That's awesome.....I used "that" camo tarp one time on an elk hunt....I had a Raccoon visit me one night...and then some sort of flippin' bird (I have no idea what it was) that bugged the crap out of me every night for a few nights just after dark....after the weeks was up; I could have sworn that I'd been taking crazy pills...between the lack of sleep and chasing elk! LOL.

 

[Evan Williams]

Here is what I have been using that last few years.

 

[Wolfmen]

Thank you MattEastman & Trout bum. you guys photo also great. Please upload more!!!

My friend is really a profession and passion guys. Every time we really enjoy his photos after camp.

larryschwartz
The wind was not quite strong. i guess it just had 25-30mph. For K tent, it just a breeze.
I am still waiting real wind test. ha..ah..

wolfmen

 

[75johndeere]

glacier peak wilderness, wa 4th of july scouting trip our first time in the wilderness what a year

 

[Jimbob]

some really great photo's. Obviously Wolfmen has the most profes. looking photo's. Really really cool.

However there is something haunting about tigers first photo. The grayish blue light, the spindrift in the air, a long valley winding behind the mountain in the background. Love it. os far my vote goes to that photo.

 

[larryschwartz]

Aron,

What criteria are you and the judges going to use to pick the winner? Prettiest picture, most interesting, worst looking shelter...?

Thanks,

Larry

 

[Aron Snyder]

A little of everything Larry.

Lets not complicate things to much Just send in the photo that YOU like the best and we'll judge from that.

 

[slim23]

marmot crib 2p. sold it. still trying to decide on a new shelter

 

[larryschwartz]

Let's go old school...

This takes us back to around 1985, I was hiking in the Appalachians. Everything fit inside of my old medium-size ALICE pack.

This is me and my trusty red tarp with a poncho and two poncho liners for a sleeping bag. There was probably an ESBIT or Sterno stove in the pack somewhere for making the dinner that went with that little bottle of wine sitting so conspicuously on my knee.

I moved up to using two-person dome tents when they became available, and now use a Shangrila-5 as my go to shelter, but that little red tarp kept me dry and comfortable on a number of trips.

Larry