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    Tarp shelters in high winds

    Stakes with more holding power for sure. The Groundhogs are good and you can also find natural anchors in a lot of circumstances (tie off to a tree, base of a shrub, root, big rock, bag of small rocks, or on sand or sandy soil or snow use deadman anchors with rocks or sticks) and do it so that...
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    Stoves: Box vs Cylinder

    I prefer a box stove for ease of assembly and warming stuff up. I found the cylinder stove to be too fiddly to put together, but that could have been my lack of experience with it.
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    Booze flask?

    I use a 12 oz nalgene flask--cheap, light and strong. I like just a sip or two of good rum before bedtime in the mountains.
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    Cold Weather Sleeping Pad

    Exped Downmat 7 has worked for me in similar circumstances.
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    Big man Sleeping Pad

    I have a downmat 7 with the integrated pump--warm and additional width does make it more comfortable for me. They make a lighter one with an inflation bag but it wasn't available when I got mine. I've had it since 2011- 12 and it has held up well. I've tried other lighter pads that had a...
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    Big man Sleeping Pad

    Exped makes some long wide insulated mats that are worth a look. I am about the same size and have the long/wide downmat. Slight weight penalty over the neoair style pad but definitely backpackable and warm, quiet and comfortable.
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    Condensation

    I have had the same experience as Tim in WA with a variety of well-regarded bivys and have stopped using them as a result.
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    Kifaru tarp annex

    You can get the stove With support for the pipe and running the guy lines off the pipe, you can tip the pipe at a pretty good angle and get the stove well into the front of a Supertarp even without the annex. I've done it and it works--learned it from a post on the old Kifaru message board...
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    Lightweight load carrying pack for 10days

    A Kifaru Bikini frame and the bigger Highcamp bag with no additional pockets carries well (though for me it isn't as comfortable as a Mystery Ranch 6500 (which weighs 5lb more) under heavy loads), is pretty light and you may be able to pick one up in the classifieds for far less than a new pack...
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    Florida Trip/ Vacation Ideas

    "Shadow Country" by Peter Matthiessen--which combines "Killing Mr. Watson" and two other takes on the same subject--is my favorite book and added to the pleasures of the trip I described above, ending at Smallwood's Store on Chokoloskee.
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    Water filtering/purification – which to choose?

    Aquamira drops are light and effective for me. I have used a variety of filters in the past, but unless I need to pull water from a source too small to dip a bottle in don't use them these days and because of effectiveness/ease of use not just the lightness.
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    Florida Trip/ Vacation Ideas

    This isn't flats fishing, but I was just down in that area for a work trip and spent a couple of days fly fishing the canals around the Tamiami Trail (highway through the Everglades) and couldn't recommend it more as an easy DIY add-on to a trip to south Florida if you have a rental car. A 5-7...
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    Which stove?

    I don't think it is too much. I use a medium box stove in a 6 man Kifaru tipi and can turn it into a sauna by loading the stove up or regulate the temperature by using less wood/opening the doors, etc. I prefer the box stoves over the cylinders even though a bit heavier because of the assembly...
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    Ice fishing in your tipi

    I have done it with a Kifaru 6 man tipi--it was memorable (and photogenic) to be out on the ice with a fire in the stove, fishing through the "floor," and my kids still talk about it years later but less practical than a pop-up ice shelter because of the work needed to anchor it, even using a...
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    SO DST as Primary Shelter

    I have a DST and have used it as my only shelter into the fall in Montana and the east. Like any flat tarp, you can make it work for 4 seasons and I have had mine in cold conditions, but it requires more careful site and pitch selection and more attention to your bag/quilt, ground cloth, etc...
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    Bag to store and protect camp cookware

    I use a plain plastic bag from the grocery store, though it is more to protect everything else from soot on the pot than to protect the pot from . . .? Light, enough that you can carry a spare, effective and free. To keep it from rattling, I hold the pot lid on the pot with a rubber band. My...
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    Who hunts in tennis shoes??

    I have put thousands of miles on and off trail in multiple pairs of INOV-8 Roclite 315s (the non-GTX model). It has been a great hunting shoe for me in wet or dry conditions and with a heavy pack. INOV-8 seem to be phasing them out and I have stockpiled a couple of extra pairs I bought on...
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    Base Camp Tarp

    20 x20 Kelty Noah's tarp or a standard hardware store tarp. If you don't have to pack it in, a heavy duty hardware store tarp can be rigged up nicely and cover a huge area. I have the Noah's but prefer the pitch and coverage of a huge rectangular hardware store tarp (provides better shade too...
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    BT1 Bikini Pack

    I have the bikini frame with the bigger highcamp bag--it is simple and light. I have no reasonable complaints. For me it doesn't carry a really heavy load as comfortably as a more robust frame, but I can make it work and it definitely light and comfortable for me for anything short of the...
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    Tarp size

    In my opinion, for most uses, the answer is "yes." The weight difference has to be minimal and it is 30 square feet more shade, rain shelter or whatever function your tarp is serving. Some pitches are easier with a square tarp too.

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