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Sep 7, 2013 at 7:53 am #1307402
Here's a tarp bivy combo that is a bit different.
The waterproof part of the bivy goes outside of the tarp and the netting top part of the bivy goes under the tarp.
Sep 7, 2013 at 8:09 am #2022640but it weighs 1 lb 8 oz !
Sep 7, 2013 at 8:15 am #2022643Anyone have field experience with a similar setup?
It seems like if you had a groundsheet under your bivy water might collect and find its way under the tarp. But it seems like a good way to bring a quick and easy bivy for nice nights and a small tarp for those occasional bad weather times.Sep 7, 2013 at 8:28 am #2022649That's sort of like bivies with raised area over your face with hoop, for example:
http://www.rei.com/product/747832/outdoor-research-alpine-bivyExcept the raised area over your face has been expanded
The only thing I don't like, is that it wouldn't take much more fabric to have it completely cover the bivy. If there's water on the outside of bivy, it won't breath as good.
Sep 7, 2013 at 9:07 am #2022658How much does the tarp weigh by itself, I wonder.
Sep 7, 2013 at 9:17 am #2022660This looks like a classic case of a compromise, marginal at everything, great at nothing. There is minimal bug protection, likely condensation from true waterproof lower end of the bivy and heavy by the standards of alternatives without these issue.
Sep 7, 2013 at 9:46 am #2022666Spelt,
If I recall correctly the Sierra Designs website lists the tarp at about 1 pound.
Sep 7, 2013 at 9:51 am #2022668I saw them a while back and my impression was that it seems like a lot of trouble for the coverage. A poncho tarp and more conventional WPB bivy with bug screen would be more versatile, allowing lean-to and full-lenth a-frame pitching options, or no overhead shelter at all in good weather.
Note the similarity to many of the SMD designs, yet it doesn't provide full coverage. If I'm going to drive all those stakes and tweak a shelter into a taut pitch, I might as well get full coverage and be able to move as I please inside. For comparison, my Gatewood Cape is 11oz and far less expensive.
Sep 7, 2013 at 9:53 am #2022669About 1 pound for tarp.
Sep 7, 2013 at 9:56 am #2022672marketing departments always have to come up with new "ideas" to differentiate em from the competition …
no matter how little sense it makes
;)
Sep 7, 2013 at 10:57 am #2022694I'll go with dale on this: MY Gatewood cape is much lighter (I thought mine weighed 10 oz, though), provides full coverage, and provides ample room for me to move around in. I don't need unusual, pragmatic is more like it!
Sep 7, 2013 at 10:58 am #2022695On the other hand, innovation is trying out different ideas. Sometimes it doesn't work out so good. Sometimes it will stimulate some other idea.
Sep 7, 2013 at 11:47 am #2022704This is definitely NOT a good idea for some of teh reasons listed above and others which will make themselves apparent when it is used.
They ran the idea up a flagpole but I doubt if many will salute it.
Sep 7, 2013 at 12:51 pm #2022721On the other hand, innovation is trying out different ideas. Sometimes it doesn't work out so good. Sometimes it will stimulate some other idea.
but those fancy "outdoor" companies always try to sell it at $$$$ prices …
real innovation comes from actual use, not marketing departments … thats where feature creep comes in
;)
Sep 7, 2013 at 1:17 pm #2022723"real innovation comes from actual use, not marketing departments … "
+1
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