SpinnChaps

but also the medium size polycryo groundsheet

i used the small last weekend on a quick trip and was thinking just a bit wider would be perfect – was thinking about emailing the suggestion to alan!

25 years ago, I made early gore-tex fabric into rain chaps, everyone laughed until they saw how much less one’s crotch over heats while hiking and how if on’es jacket was long enough,one stayed perfectly dry.

Nice to see them make a come back in such a light weight. Now if I can just make myself some out of that light weight fabric for my 6’3″ body!

I must say they are nice and incredibly light. This will shave almost 5 ounces from my rain pants.

My first experience with spinnaker fabric – damn, this stuff IS very noisy. It’ll sound like the potato chip bag man is walking down the trail!!!

"I used the small [polycryo groundsheet] last weekend on a quick trip and was thinking just a bit wider would be perfect"

I also used this a couple of weekends ago and tend to agree, especially for those cases when not going off the edge of the groundsheet into a puddle is beneficial. However, I've used limbs under the long sides of my previous groundcloth (like rails of a cot) to keep me from rolling down an incline before and they kept me in place. That idea may also work on a narrow groundsheet to keep a person on top of it and out of a puddle. When using with my Gatewood Cape there isn't much room before touching the sides when pitched tight to the ground so it may be useful for that too. Since I've cut my sleeping pad to 15" wide to save some ounces (and to be narrower when hanging off my pack) the ground cloth actually seems wide enough! :-)