Ben Ward sent some nice pictures. I have the tent to patch some small holes and then they are off for more hiking.
Through hike photos
Oware Pyramid
Ben Ward
Category Archives: backpacking tarps
Two through-hikes down and one to go for Ben and brother using Oware Pyramid!
Teeny Tarps
For ground sheets, emergency shelters, and first aid kits. Cheap! Cheap! Only $29.00.
(This blog post is Erik’s first!)
Filed under backpacking tarps, flattarp, Oware Backpacking Gear, oware tarps
Alphamini Photos
Alphamini Photos
Take a pyramid tarp, cut it in half and add an A Frame door and you have the Alphamid TM. Half Pyramid floorless shelter 4×8 by 5′ feet tall. 30d silnylon Weighs 13.5 oz A floorless tarp which is quick to set up, light and inexpensive. A favorite for winter campers, it can be set up over a snow pit for extra roominess. It includes a stuff sack. Use your ski probe poles, hang it from a tree limb or order the separate shock corded pole to set it up. Just clip the buckle at the bottom of the door, zip up the zipper, stake out the four corners evenly and put up the pole. Additional tie outs are on the center seams. The apex is reinforced , the zipper is a #5 coil. The taller steeper pitch sheds snow and rain much better than the competitors shelters as well a providing more headroom. Includes 1 oz. pole connector (3 webbing straps) so you can use two trekking or ski poles to make a height adjustable pole. Fabric is not flame retardant and will burn and melt when in contact with high heat or flame. Keep away from camp stoves, gas lanterns, campfires etc.
Great shelter for Search and Rescue-very light and you can set it up over a prone victom without
moving them. Current color is grey.
http://shop.bivysack.com/product.sc?productId=39&categoryId=4
Neo Bivy Now available
Now here. New bivy with side zip and room for a Neo Air pad along with a thick down bag and you.
Various fabrics.
http://shop.bivysack.com/product.sc?productId=101&categoryId=2
Filed under backpacking tarps, bivysack, Oware Backpacking Gear
Scouts like new tarps for heavy weather and light packs
Dave,
Thanks for getting the tarps out so fast. I really appreciate it.
We put them to good use on our troop’s trek this week. We faced some of the rowdiest storms I’ve ever seen in the mountains. The boys LOVED the tarps and have total confidence in them. I don’t think they’ll ever carry a tent again.
Here’s a pic:
flickr.com/photos/bigskyry/7763694370/in/photostream
Ryan
Tarp Shelter Set Up Options
From our friends at Equipped.org. Extensive article on using tarps to make shelters.
Equipped
Pyramid Tarp along the Pacific Crest Trail
Sam Ward sent these photos of an Oware mid he used along the PCT. He sent sent the tent back to patch some small holes in preparation for using it while hiking the Appalachian trail this summer.
Update:
David,
Just wanted to thank you for the repairs you did on a gray 8×8 pyramid tent recently (patching, buckle replacement). Everything looked great and the tent is back on the trail for its second thru-hike, currently somewhere in the 100-mile wilderness in Maine protecting two hikers from A LOT of rain their first week. My brother and his group hiked Katahdin June 1 and started the wilderness section Saturday June 2. Thanks again for your support of hikers.
Sam
Silnylon- How to add more coating- link
Interesting article on adding more silicone to a silicone coated fabric.
Filed under backpacking tarps, Do It Yourself, Fabric, Oware Backpacking Gear
Seam on cuben tarp
Cat Tarp 1.5 cuben fiber. Center seam photo. Felled seam, then taped.
Cuben Fiber and Silnylon pull test
Cuben Fiber .5 oz. sewn to Silicone coated nylon 30 denier and pulled to failure (42 lbs).
Tie outs were not reinforced but held while two rows of straight stitching on a lap seam failed
at the nylon, cuben AND stitching. This is 7 lb tensile strength thread.
