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I’d rather have the mosquito netting on the inside so it doesn’t get wet or dirty. Since I plan to use magnets, that should be easy. How to keep it out of the way? I could make it so you could even take the netting off completely and leave it at home if you want…
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While rereading the post of my initial ideas of the “cathedral” tent, I had a couple of thoughts and questions: New mosquito netting door for the terrace. It works great! The goods arrived! How much does it weigh? 5m by 138mm of groundsheet weighs 250g 7m by 138mm of fly weighs 180g 8 pole sections…
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How would the air flow through the tent to minimize the condensation? How would it be possible to keep the windows open without rain coming inside? How can the tent be tensioned properly while allowing for different pole setups: bespoke single vertical pole, hiking pole of fixed 120cm length, arch? Let’s look at some diagrams…
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So… I put in an order at one of my favorite stores: Many thanks for providing so many wonderful articles for creating camping stuff; letting my imagination go wild; feeding my peculiar deep-seated inclination to design and create my own shelter. (Was it because I traveled so much as small child?) ExtremTextil had some second-choice…
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With the extraordinary hot summer we’re experiencing in Europe right now, and the bombing of the infrastructure in several countries, plus a sale on Dyneema material so I can finally make my own light-weight emergency shelter without feeling too guilty of wasting money, I’m thinking about what would be a systematic way to increase our…
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Our wonderful 30-year-old tent isn’t smelling so great. It’s offgassing something terrible. I don’t have the heart to throw it away because it has some really cool features. One of them, a hood that’s kept taut through use of a plastic doodad, helped enormously with airflow through the tent. Plus you could look out the…
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I train for a bit, then nothing for weeks. Then full-on tough days, then traveling and afterwards just relaxing. It’s difficult to improve my fitness like this. But on September 6th I’ll be standing at the start line with 1.5 km of swimming, 40 k cycling and 10 k running ahead of me thinking “Shit,…
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1253m hiking up, even with just light 7 kg packs, requires a bit of training. Tendons need to be strengthened beforehand. We all managed to get up there, but only one of us was trained enough to happily continue with a similar pace (800m up, 1700m down) the next day. Just hiking back down to…
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A huge history of cross-country and downhill skiing in Riale The only use of first aid was to repair a rip in Aldo’s pants. Finally used my sewing kit! Parents leaning way out … Over the spectacular waterfall: la Cascata del Toce View from the bottom. The Toce River flows down to Gravellona T., the…
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Sunrise over Val Torta. We’ll walk back down this valley to the car as the original hiking plan to walk 800m up and 1700m down to our next shelter is too ambitious for 6 of the 8 legs. Lenticular clouds over the Basodino The “new” hut sleeping bag stayed in place! Lots of ski touring…
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