Last week I spent 6 days on Isle Royale with my wife and 4 close friends.
We experienced 38 hours of almost constant rain. We were not ultralighters on this trip, but I've been thinking about a tarp and bivvy combination.
How well would you expect a tarp and bivvy to hold up in 38 hours of wet, windy conditions? Would you expect to stay warm and dry?
One of our group had a Tarptent contrail and a Cabela's bivvy. He slept in the Contrail, with his bag in the bivvy. The contrail leaked, and the bivvy finally leaked on day 2 of the rains as well. A trash bag kept his sleeping bag from getting wet.
Would you judge this as an equipment failure, limitation, or user error?
Thanks,
Jeff
