Tipi vs Tarp

[snowplow]

I have a TiGoat vertex 5 and am blown away by it. I also have a Simply Light winter haven tarp. Its big and actually weights noticeably more than the tipi. Since its bigger (about super/megatarp size) I plan to use it as my basecamp which is exactly opposite as most I think. I am thinking of selling the tarp and getting a larger basecamp size tipi or pyramid.

Why would I want to get another tarp instead of another tipi for basecamp? They are so light and quick to setup I cant really think of any reasons why.

Whatcha think?

 

[durangobrad]

I have a TiGoat vertex 5 and am blown away by it. I also have a Simply Light winter haven tarp. Its big and actually weights noticeably more than the tipi. Since its bigger (about super/megatarp size) I plan to use it as my basecamp which is exactly opposite as most I think. I am thinking of selling the tarp and getting a larger basecamp size tipi or pyramid.

Why would I want to get another tarp instead of another tipi for basecamp? They are so light and quick to setup I cant really think of any reasons why.

Whatcha think?

Tarps can be setup in smaller footprints and different pitches to accommodate different situations. Typically tarps will be lighter than a tipi. Sounds like you just bought a heavy tarp...

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[kickemall]

Light tarps are handy for certain things and like said above, can be pitched differently. However I have discovered, like you, that tipis go up faster, provide more protection and take a lot less "fiddling with" than tarps. I'll still take a tarp certain times of the year but generally its no shelter or a tipi.

 

[desertcj]

Light tarps are handy for certain things and like said above, can be pitched differently. However I have discovered, like you, that tipis go up faster, provide more protection and take a lot less "fiddling with" than tarps. I'll still take a tarp certain times of the year but generally its no shelter or a tipi.

I'll just put this out there for discussion. Generally speaking, a "tipi-tarp" is 2-3 times the price of a flat tarp. Are they 2-3 times better than a flat tarp pitched as a tent? Personally, I don't think so. Then again, I don't have much experience with the "Tipi-tarps". I have spent a few very rainy, windy nights under a tarp shelter and for me it was pretty good. Opinions obviously vary.

 

[ironmike]

At 65, I'm kicking around the tipi vs tarp & have experience with tarps... not with the tipi. Appears the tipi offers advantages for foul weather & old bones...?

 

[snowplow]

Are pyramids any different than tipi's? Do mids pitch tighter?

 

[oldgoat]

At 65, I'm kicking around the tipi vs tarp & have experience with tarps... not with the tipi. Appears the tipi offers advantages for foul weather & old bones...?

I'm only in my 50's and pretty good shape still, but the tipi you can put a 2.5lb cylinder stile wood stove from Kifaru or other makers in it and sleep in an already warm sleeping bag when you crawl in it and light it off again before you get out of the bag in the morning, there are some tarps that are enclosed that you can do this in, but none that you can stand up in or at least almost stand up in. We use a Kifaru Sawtooth and love it! I think total shelter and stove weight is about 7lbs, that's a lot of comfort in that weight.

 

[ATX762]

Love my ti goat 8 man tipi and my bearpaw Luna 4.

They've got the same issues all single wall tents have, which is condensation, but as old goat said, with a lightweight wood stove (I use a titanium goat) they offer way more comfort per ounce than any other shelter design. You're hot-tenting at a fraction of the weight of a wall tent. Though obvs not as comfortable as a wall tent, again, it's a tiny fraction of the weight of a wall tent for a large portion of the comfort (condensation again being the issue).

I haven't found that my pyramid pitches tighter than my tipi.