Excelent question. I was wondering that myself....
though the Sierra Designs tents run quite a bit more than $75 :-)
-- Tom Corrigan Troop 72 / Glenwood MD. mailto:thomas.corrigan@jhuapl.edu Monday, April 21, 2003, 11:10:44 AM, you wrote: DSR> Nothing personal, Bill, but: DSR> Can someone explain to me why they would want this tent? It doesn't DSR> have a stibule. It isn't free standing. It is *heavy* (5.5 pounds *without* DSR> the stakes?). It takes a ton of stakes. DSR> Lots of tents that are free standing and the fly hooks to the corners so DSR> doesn't need extra stakes, except for the vestibule. Six stakes all DSR> that is needed, if not free standing (like my Sierra Designs Clip Flashlight, DSR> also not free standing, but nowhere near 14 stakes, I put it up with *six* DSR> and could get by with four). And all those ropes to deal with? None of the DSR> variety of tents used by our scouts has ropes to tie (except in high DSR> wind). DSR> And at 5.5 pounds, plus the weight of the stakes? why would someone DSR> want to carry that much around? 5 pound free standing tents can be had for less DSR> than 75 bucks. DSR> I just don't get it. Is it simply the fact that this tent takes a real DSR> pounding? If I proposed this tent to our boys for our usual week long DSR> Sierra trek, they'd laugh me out of the room. DSR> Regards DSR> Don Roberts DSR> Philtrek 03- 809J ------------------------------------------------------- Scouting E-mail Discussion Lists @ usscouts.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe at http://usscouts.org/lists/ Listserv Commands at http://usscouts.org/lists/lc.asp ------------------------------------------------------- Send listserv commands to: listserv@troop47.com Send postings to: philmont@troop47.com List FAQ found at: http://usscouts.org/lists/faq.asp List Administrator: philmont_owner@troop47.com ------------------------------------------------------- As you gather around this virtual campfire with fellow Scouts and Scouters, do your best to be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. -------------------------------------------------------Received on Mon Apr 21 10:58:27 2003
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