[Philmont] "Fall Into Scouting" Sale

All tents have pros and cons. I don't have a particular favorite to recommend.

I would suggest that it's a good idea to have the boys learn to use a
variety of tents and thereby become more skilled in their
backpacking and camping skills.

It's certainly a good idea to introduce them to the pros and cons of
particular tents and their usefulness in different situations.

Joe Jansen
JAJansenJr@gmail.com

On 8/17/07, T.W. Cook <twcook@gmail.com> wrote:
> For what it's worth, I took my Zephyr 2 AL on our 802 trek this year
> and it worked out just fine. Out of the dozen or so tents (ranging
> from Eureka Timberline 4 to North Face VE-24 to Bibler Bipod Bivy) I
> own or have owned at various times, it's my favorite. Light, easy and
> quick to set up even if you are by yourself, and I really like being
> able to tie both fly flaps open and see the stars pretty well. And
> despite the all-mesh design I've been out in some vicious Texas
> downpours without ever getting wet. It's luxurious as a one person
> tent, which is mostly the way I use it, but it worked fine as a 2
> person backpacking tent at Philmont too. You can also set up the fly
> and footprint without the tent if you're trying to go ultralight in
> some place with no mosquitoes. I don't know if it'd hold up a great
> deal of snow load, but that hasn't been a big problem for me here in
> Central Texas, so I haven't actually tested that!
>
> Other than my Zephyr, our 3 crews used a combination of Alps Mystique
> 2s and Extreme 2s. The X2s are heavier but are awfully sturdy - we use
> them as year-round troop tents. I personally prefer the Mystiques but
> some of our guys freak at the concept of a non-freestanding tent.
>
> We also took at least a dozen Alps Denali 5500 packs (they were out of
> the 4500s for most of last year or it would have been a mix of 4500s
> and 5500s) and a couple of their Red Tail packs. No problems with any
> of them.
>
> --
> T.W. Cook - SM Troop 151/NA Crew 911/MT Ship 911 - Georgetown, Texas
> http://www.troop151.org & http://www.ship911.org
>
>
> On 8/17/07, Jim Thompson <Jim@philsearch.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > So technically this isn't me making an ALPs post ... but no sooner had I
> > sent my last message than this arrived in my in-box. I has three
> > attachments, which are posted on PhilSearch under mailing list attachments
> > since the list does not support attachments.
> >
> > YIS
> >
> > Jim
>
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Received on Fri Aug 17 20:50:11 2007