I'm after a pot..
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Spending a life researching the newest lightest equipment can be contribute to losing sight on the important stuff. I'm leaving my base camp and needed to stash some belongings. I didn't triple wrap them and guess what it's already persisting. I'll be able check the stuff tonight and hopefully remedy but I left an important job half done
Define poor weather? Almost all tents are 3 season which means in the real world you will have problems in truly bad weather. I was in Ullenpool for a gale, the caravans were all leaning against each other and the shop and there were 2 tents left standing. A Vango Force Ten and a £50 Eurohike 2 man tunnel entrance dome. From a full campsite I would add.
One bad night in a journey of 10 is liveable especially if the weight difference is worth it to you.If after waking up after a cold, wet, miserable, mostly non-sleeping night your first thought is "I have the lightest", YOU ARE ON THE WRONG TRACK.Just in case somebody did not know.
This is sort of my point you have to decide what is important to you and what you can live with. I need to do some work with my mess tins and see if I prefer them over everything else.
Fair point. I suppose I would expect any three season tent to remain water proof in prolonged showers, and for those marketed for use in the hills, to be resistant to the unpredictable winds that you can expect in those areas. But yes I recognise that there a limits to what a tent can reasonably do.
I have not experienced waterproofing issues due to weather however poles are a big problem with wind. If you think about it a tent is basically a big kite so if you get enough wind, poles will break.
What makes you think bad lightweight equipment only gives you one bad night?
Ok, I agree on the tool advice but on bad nights I am not very tolerant.
So here's a question: on a foul night, at altitude with strong gusting winds, how is a something like a DD tarp in typical tarp tent configuration, supported by a single trekking pole and with small opening, going to fare when compared to something like an msr tent of similar size?
In a diagonal leanto with the back to the wind I think it can take quite a lot, I don't have a DD but similar ones have fared fairly well. It is not going to be very comfy but life goes on.
I have had some tents fall on me in high winds usually when the pegs have worked loose. If they hold it is a question of fabric fastening point strength. Even in open fell some protected places can be found but usually only for one wind direction, some luck involved.
I think the big advantage to a tarp over anything would be the ability to use it around windbreaks so you could find yourself a nice dry stone wall which is going nowhere hopefully.
It will be rubbish! A right old faff to pitch and would be cold and drafty inside with no solid inner or floor.
MSR tents tend to have fly sheets that don’t go as far to the ground than typical British tents like Vango, Terra Nova etc. Also often have mess inners and pitch inner first.
Just saw link to this over on reddit. Guy trapped in severe storms, in sub zero Northern Sweden.
Helsport tent barely makes it, but rather extreme several days of storm. Fortunately not typical for most of the UK.
Yes. Owned one of them, and in teenage naivety thought it'd be good in winter.I owned an Argos Moon Bag - I have had some of those bad nights
I am not sure it was good for summer.
Think it was my first do not believe the hype lesson.
Wasn't this about pots?
I've had some decent non-stick sets of three nesting pots (one is a frying pan/lid) pretty cheap (like six or seven quid, can't remember) from Aldi or Lidl. You have to watch out for them as they're only on sale now and again. I expect you can get them all year round in other places but I don't know what the prices will be like. The handles are a bit variable. You get one handle for the three pots. The plastic variety aren't much use and I'd say probably unsafe. The alloy ones are OK but can damage the non-stick at the lip of the pot. Pot capacities around 1.2 to 1.8 litres. No bail of course. They're pretty thin aluminium so you still need to be careful with big flames, but I really like them.
I've had some decent non-stick sets of three nesting pots (one is a frying pan/lid) pretty cheap (like six or seven quid, can't remember) from Aldi or Lidl. You have to watch out for them as they're only on sale now and again. I expect you can get them all year round in other places but I don't know what the prices will be like. The handles are a bit variable. You get one handle for the three pots. The plastic variety aren't much use and I'd say probably unsafe. The alloy ones are OK but can damage the non-stick at the lip of the pot. Pot capacities around 1.2 to 1.8 litres. No bail of course. They're pretty thin aluminium so you still need to be careful with big flames, but I really like them.