Anyone camp under a tarp?

[seww]

If it sprinkles your fine if its a down poor your fuked


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Sounds like some good odds

 

[Mykolaivka887]

Sounds like some good odds

Yeah, one winter while chasing deer in Arizona, I spent 15 days under a tarp with blowing snow and temperatures down to -5. Was a little problematic, but no biggie really. I've suffered worse under a tarp up here in Alaska.

 

[seww]

Yeah, one winter while chasing deer in Arizona, I spent 15 days under a tarp with blowing snow and temperatures down to -5. Was a little problematic, but no biggie really. I've suffered worse under a tarp up here in Alaska.

Damn, sounds pretty hardcore. I would have bailed pretty quick with that kind of weather

 

[OregonSteeler]

I started to think about tarp camping. Since a tarp can be quite large and really light, it makes sense to use on a hunt.
A couple of problems though, bugs and other pests, might not be able to set up anywhere, trees help. The false sense of security one gets behind a tent is gone. Might be for the better, I don't know.

So does anyone do this? And I don't mean a floorless teepee, I mean a proper tarp as a lean-to (or lean-three ) or whatever way you pitch it.
Nothing but a tarp, pad and sleeping bag.

Here's a good thread to help with tarp setups:

SO DST tarp pitches

Does anyone run one of these? I'm thinking about using one for archery elk this year in Montana. Seems to fit the bill for light solo shelter and I can run a cimmaron when with 2 people. I'm only 5'8" so shelters are easy for me length wise. Looking at the DST instead of a silvertip for solo...

www.rokslide.com

 

[daniellmcquillan]

I'm assuming you use the bivy for the skeeters? Not that many dangerous small creatures up there

Keeps the bag dry from wet ground. . Tarp gives you an area to get up, hang stuff to dry, cook when it’s raining.

 

[seww]

Took a quick overnighter to try the tarp and do some scouting. Didn't have any trees on any flat surfaces except right here. No poles, just cordage and 4 stakes. Made a few extra stakes. It worked for sure, had a ground sheet and no problems with creepy crawlers but the mosquitos did drive me crazy at night. They weren't many but enough to keep me awake. Bug net is for sure needed in the early season.

 

[Blaw]

I've spent a ton of nights (and multiple fly-out hunts), using only an UL, solo, floorless shelter. I don't know how that would be much different than under a tarp.

what shelter is this?

 

[Blaw]

No way brother! I wouldn’t be caught dead in just a bivy….unless the shelter/tarp blew away.

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how on earth do you sleep on slopes, my pad always slides down my tyvek and before you know it my feet are against the tent or sticking outside it lol

 

[AK Troutbum]

how on earth do you sleep on slopes, my pad always slides down my tyvek and before you know it my feet are against the tent or sticking outside it lol

Haha, sometimes looks can be deceiving. That spot really wasn’t all that bad, although it looks like it was pretty steep from the picture.

This spot was definitely much worse, but I had just killed a nice billy goat the night before, it was about 15°F, we had no water (that wasn’t frozen solid), it was starting to get dark, and the terrain we were in was super steep. We quickly came down the mountain about 1,500’ and found this spot that wasn’t too bad. I ended up pitching the shelter while my son climbed further down and found a little drainage that wasn’t totally frozen.


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[AK Troutbum]

what shelter is this?

The top picture is of a Mountain Laurel Designs (MLD’s), SoloMid, and the bottom is of a MLD’s Patrol tarp.


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[shootnrun]

A bug bivvy will help a whole lot and weighs only a few ounces. Also helps keep the pad under me so I don't roll off it. I live the tarp life Aug-sept and Oct if the weather looks doable.