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  • #1705633
    t.darrah
    BPL Member

    @thomdarrah

    Locale: Southern Oregon

    MLD Cricket

    #1705634
    Heath Pitts
    BPL Member

    @heathpitts

    Locale: Nashville
    #1705642
    Nick Gatel
    BPL Member

    @ngatel

    Locale: Southern California

    What is Facebook?

    #1705643
    Nick Gatel
    BPL Member

    @ngatel

    Locale: Southern California

    Well,

    That is a nice looking tent. Probably a lot of people are going to add, yet another, tent to their collection :)

    Franco?

    Ben?

    #1705644
    Cayenne Redmonk
    BPL Member

    @redmonk

    Locale: Greater California Ecosystem

    Nick,
    It is a social site full of kids that want to walk on your lawn.
    Best to just avoid it.

    #1705646
    Nick Gatel
    BPL Member

    @ngatel

    Locale: Southern California

    Okay…

    So is there something wrong with BPL as a social site?

    #1705653
    Nathan Watts
    BPL Member

    @7sport

    Nothing wrong with BPL. Facebook probably has more functionality and a better user interface and it's free, but certainly lacks the backpacker specific audience

    #1705667
    Jeff Hollis
    BPL Member

    @hyperslug

    I will only make a comment and promise not to hijack the thread but before you knock Facebook,you should try it. As a 50+ year old I have caught up with a bunch of old friends I would have never found as I have moved a lot through out life. I have friends with the same attitude as some of you, it tends to be guy thing. I will say women really like it and that is reason enough for me. :)

    Jeff

    #1705668
    Ben Egan
    Member

    @benjammin21

    Locale: The Grid, Brooklyn

    It looks very similar to the new Zpacks hexamid with the beak with the hexanet inner bug netting that Richard brought to the 3rd Anual Bay Area BPL GGG a couple of weeks ago.

    Really, really, really similar

    zpacks hexamid with net

    It's like a slightly modified hexamid. I don't see much creativity. Using a second pole is the biggest difference I see between the two. Well, besides the cuben.

    I think Richard said with guylines the setup seen here (no stakes or pole) is about 10 oz.

    Photo credit goes to Tony Wong.

    #1705671
    Heath Pitts
    BPL Member

    @heathpitts

    Locale: Nashville

    I think the main difference between these is the separate inner tent

    #1705674
    Cayenne Redmonk
    BPL Member

    @redmonk

    Locale: Greater California Ecosystem

    They are both separate inner tents.

    Michael Fogarty asks "Is the inner tent detachable from the outer tent?"

    Ron Bell replies "Yes!"

    #1705675
    Heath Pitts
    BPL Member

    @heathpitts

    Locale: Nashville

    My mistake on that. I guess they are very similar

    #1705678
    BlackHatGuy
    Spectator

    @sleeping

    Locale: The Cascades

    "So is there something wrong with BPL as a social site?"

    The funny looks I get when I'm carrying around my cuben backpack and pitching my cuben shelter and wearing 'sneakers' in the winter always made me think that BPL was a social disease…….

    #1705679
    Heath Pitts
    BPL Member

    @heathpitts

    Locale: Nashville

    Up on MLD's site now…

    #1705684
    BlackHatGuy
    Spectator

    @sleeping

    Locale: The Cascades

    Ben, you're only seeing one angle. After looking at the other angles on MLD's website, I'd say the Cricket bears much more resemblance to the MLD Solomid than the zPacks Hexamid. Which, of course, makes sense.

    #1705685
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    The price is disappointing, but the shelter looks nice.

    #1705690
    Rod Lawlor
    BPL Member

    @rod_lawlor

    Locale: Australia

    Ben, that was my first impression, but Doug is correct on this one. The pics on MLD show it much more like a Solomid, crossed with a Trailstar. I think it's most likely to be competition with the Solomid rather than the Hexamid.

    #1705703
    Nathan Baker
    BPL Member

    @slvravn

    Locale: East Coast - Mid Atlantic

    I thought the same thing at first, but it appears to come with the solo inner which is $145 by itself so that puts the tarp portion at $150 which is in line with the solomid.

    #1705719
    t.darrah
    BPL Member

    @thomdarrah

    Locale: Southern Oregon

    The Trailstar Solo is now also up on the MLD site.

    MLD Trailstar Solo

    #1705736
    Mat Tallman
    Member

    @wehtam

    Locale: Midwest

    Is it me or is the solo trailstar the same outer tarp as is used in the cricket?

    #1705739
    Cayenne Redmonk
    BPL Member

    @redmonk

    Locale: Greater California Ecosystem

    Ron Bell writes "Yes, the Cricket tent Outer Wall is the exact same thing as the Solo TrailStar. See the TrailStar info on the website later tonight for a bit more info on that.

    #1705756
    BlackHatGuy
    Spectator

    @sleeping

    Locale: The Cascades

    Cameron, it's kinda eerie how you're channeling Ron. When you start doing those old Greek dudes I'm gonna freak….. ;-)

    #1705789
    Tom Clark
    BPL Member

    @tomclark

    Locale: East Coast

    Does the hexamid have a catrenary cut outer tent? Tony's photo makes it look like it has some flap in it.

    #1705819
    Jeffs Eleven
    BPL Member

    @woodenwizard

    Locale: NePo

    Gentlemen, I believe I just soiled my drawers.

    The Cricket is right up my alley

    The price is more than I want to pay, but those guys are the masters of putting it juuust out of reach so I'll eventually crack and succumb the full-frontal fury of my capitalist brainwashing! whatever that was

    #1705821
    Ryan C
    BPL Member

    @radio_guy

    Locale: United States

    Is the net tent on the new Cricket the same as the regular solo InnerNet? Looks like there may be some differences (more WP floor, momentum panels, higher bathtub) for the Cricket net tent.

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