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Ni hao, Arapiles.

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We can switch back to English and discuss more about term "highly water resistant". As Clinton might have asked if he were looking at this tent — what is the meaning of "highly"?

I think this discussion might be much more conclusive if we used a non-western writing system, don't you?

Hi Miguel:

Actually, given my HP non-Eastern keyboard, it's actually much easier to type out non-Eastern words! Just to type out those few Chinese words above, I had to go to AltaVista's Babel Fish language translation site — type the words in non-Eastern language first, then copy and paste the resulting Chinese words here! :)

…где Эпическая ткань блокирует это.

Каждый получает палатку, которой они заслуживают

A tent review in Sumerian is next.

Ain't that 'pravda'? :)

…естественно

I'm sitting here chuckling at the ordeal with BD epic tents and water-resistant/waterproof. It seems to be a titillating topic. I haven't seen anyone in this forum write that these tents are waterproof. On the other hand, I've users write that they had or did not have problem with rain of different duration and intensity, some people complained that the fabric got soaked, others that it came out like a champ, which is fair enough.

Yet, people keep sending out warning flares that BD epic tents are water-resistant, not waterproof. Over and over again.

It's very funny. Though only sufficient for a chuckle.

I have a Lighthouse which I bought, cognizant that it was (ahhhhh!) water-resistant, not waterproof. I am going to spend 5 days in the very un-waterproof French Pyrenees.

I'll get soaked.
No I won't.
I'll get soaked.
No I won't…

I've never hiked in Europe… but the mental image I have (probably a wrong one) is that hiking over there is mainly a "hut to hut" exercise. If your route is like that, then heck, why not take along the BD, knowing that there are huts available on 'stand by'?

I've comfortably used a Firstlight in the slightly more Water Resistant Spanish Pyrenees…

Give a trip report after you come back, Miguel.

If you've been following the Tour—-that was an incredible stage win by your countryman, Contador, yesterday.

Dunno about Sumerian, but my 7 year old was reading hieroglyphics in the Louvre two days ago … that's what I get for sending him to a posh English school …

I think that's how Indiana Jones got started! Smart kid you got there. :)

I hope to post a trip report. Our trip will be on the French side which means plus d'eau. I've been tracking the weather there for the last 3 weeks and rain is almost a certainty at some points during our trek.

I've got the BD Lighthouse groundsheet with me which I'll be using as a second layer if the water gets intense. Who knows? I may end up eating my words, but the experience should be.. what's the right word here?, um, that's it! Epic!

This post is an opportunity as well to thank backpackinglight.com and the users here. I have learned more at this web site than anywhere else, and the collboration is top notch.

Thanks. :)