I’ve used the cuben fiber one person tent/fly shown in my avatar for a couple of years now. I like it but I was wishing it was two person size so I could let my wife sleep with me when we backpack together. Her whimpering outside the tent, especially when it is raining, can interfere with my sleep if I forget my earplugs.
So, motivated by enlightened self interest, I returned to John at Bearpaw and asked him if he would modify this tent/fly that he had made for me per my specs. He said yes. So this is what he did, per my request:
(1) Cut the tent/fly in half lengthwise like in this drawing:
(2) Inserted a piece about 2 feet wide:
I’m happy with it. Now I need to make a 2 person tent to go under it.
With guylines this weighs about 11 ounces (plus poles) now that it is supersized. (The one person burger weighed about 8 ounces). I’ll use my wife’s hiking poles as the two verticals and connect them to a horizontal carbon fiber ridge pole with flexible connectors (ridge pole + connectors = about 2 ounces).
Tent/fly is up and stable with 4 stakes (plus poles). Vestibules can be rolled up or left to hang in low wind situations or pulled out with two additional stakes.
