Why starting a fire in the rain wouldn't have saved me..

[Coopsdaddy]

Curious about your thoughts on just carrying something like a xmid 1 fly and 4 stakes vs a tarp if your carrying poles.
Seems like a viable option and quick to setup.

 

[txtransplant]

That’s my plan this year, though with a different tent. If you can pitch the fly independently, I don’t see any downside (other than the fact that it might be more closed off than you’d want for a glassing tarp). I’m certainly no expert here, but it seems useful to me to be able to enclose everything for an emergency shelter or unplanned night out.

This is the one I’ll be carrying this year.

Edit to add: I paid $110 for the 2 person double wall variant. The $170 price is absurd - just so they can mark it down to $100 and claim it’s a 40% discount.