Bear Paw tents custom tipi
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Hi all,
Just wanted to share my experiences with Bear Paw Tents. I ordered a custom pyramid shelter and John had it out to me within a week— all at about 30% less than the other UL companies I looked at. What?! Yeah! He was a pleasure to deal with and the shelter is well made.
That's the short version. Here's details, for anyone contemplating ordering something similar.
—The tipi is 4.5 high, 9.5 long and 6 wide; that's 2' narrower and 8" longer than the Mountain Laurel Designs SpeedMid, which it closely resembles. There is no covered peak vent, and I didn't want one.
One panel was sewn into the seam with a little excess in the middle (think reverse catenary), making that edge less taut than the other three. Not perfect, maybe, but good enough for me. I assume if you were ordering one of Bear Paw's regular products everything would be dialed in.
The tipi came with a stuffsack with a bottle of silicone goop. You add your own paint thinner, shake it up, and paint it on. Much easier, faster and cheaper than SilNet. All tieouts were reinforced with silnylon patches, and the peak is reinforced with thicker nylon to hold a ski pole or stick. All your basic details.
I don't know how much it weighs. It's plenty light.
The 6' width looks just right for 2 people. The 9.5' length is long enough to put packs at our feet, and I'm 6'1".
The site is bearpawtents.com
Check it out!
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