My lunar solo

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Franco

Cool. Normally the photo bucket link works and shows up as pictures for me. I dont know what happened, thanks. I was real happy to see how well this tent vented. It is around 78* today and we were very comfy with the nice breeze. My SD or TNF tents would have left us a sweaty mess.

Mike:

You're welcome. The Lunar Solo is a fantastic design!

The HTML codes that you should use to link are different from the ones normally used by other forums. For example, you started with the open bracket "[" when you should have started with the less than sign "<".

Going off topic a bit… I am mighty curious about my own photo link up above. When I first linked it, the photo was much larger than Franco's (he downloaded and then uploaded rather than doing a direct link). Now, however, it's reduced to the same size as Franco's pics.

I wonder if the system automatically does this? Or was it moderator intervention? In any case, the photo is now much better.

Hi Mike
Good to know that your LS works well in cold weather (we reached 45.1c /113f yesterday here in Melbourne, new record. We are so happy)
Franco
Actually the record was for the most consecutive days over 43c (113f) the hottest recorded day in Melbourne was 45.6c (114 f) on Jan 13, 1939 (Black Friday)

Compared to 113* Is guess 78* is a bit chilly ;)

Mike
Occasionally I see people winging about condensation in the LS. I think that a ground cloth for the vestibule will greatly reduce that.
Franco

Ben,
shows your pic was edited by sharalds

I have a Tyvek ground cloth that I will be using. I will make a small one to use in the vestibule and to use while cooking.

Thanks, Sean.

When you use the "insert image at cursor" button the script automatically enters width="550" into the img src code. You entered the img src code raw, Ben so it was displaying your image at it's actual width. I went in and added a width tag to force it to fit within the width of the forum. Hope you don't mind ; )

– Sam

I'm just glad Sam's avatar doesn't move any more.

Love the picture Michael.

Also – I'm glad Sam's freaky cat picture is gone. Every time that thing flashed my eyes would jump over like "what was that?!" :)

My favorite place on the east Tonto to wake up It can be windy, but there are lots of big rocks to hold my stakes down.

"Occasionally I see people winging about condensation in the LS."

I'm afraid I'm one of the wingers. I won't go into all the problems I had when sleeping in one with my dog, because the tent was designed for one person, not one person plus 80-lb. dog! On a dogless trip to Washington's Olympic Peninsula coast, I had my Lunar Solo pitched right next door to my son and his two children in a Tarptent Rainshadow 2. It was foggy and drizzly, with no wind, which of course are very marginal conditions for a single-wall tent. However, while my Lunar Solo was very wet from condensation, there wasn't a drop inside the Rainshadow. It's a good idea to have something with which to wipe down the inside of the tent (on the good side, this is easily done while sitting up in the tent and takes only a minute or two).

The "eaves" (or skirt) of the Lunar Solo extend quite a ways beyond the netting. This is great in heavy rain because it eliminates any possibility of splash. But I noticed that on grass or wet ground there was condensation on the underside of the eaves/skirt long before there was any in the tent. I'm wondering if the eaves don't funnel some of the ground moisture into the tent.

Except for this, it's a great tent–it stood up to a whole series of Rocky Mountain thunderstorms, with cloudbursts, hail, high winds from every which way. It also stood up to the infamous Labrador tail-wag (which brought down lots of "rain" inside unless I woke up first to wipe the walls down), my tripping over the front guyline (which is, unfortunately, black) at night (only time it ever pulled a stake) and the occasional grandchild running full-tilt through said front guyline.

Just be very, very careful of your trekking pole tip, or try using it handle end up. I suspect that's true of any tent where the trekking pole tip fits into a grommet, but I did have a little disaster with the LS. A small patch and Silnet fixed it, though. Watertight even if not very beautiful.

Mary
I was just suggesting a way to reduce possible condensation but after all, as you know, I use Tarptents…
Franco