I was curious how easy it would be to add some guy out points to a cuben fiber shelter. With cuben tape adhering so well I didn’t know if anyone had tried “stick on” guy outs. I know Zpacks sells some stick on loops but they don’t look strong enough to be used for that purpose.
I have a be a cuben MLD Solomid XL that I bought for and used on a two week trip in Alaska’s Brooks Range this summer and it did well using two poles in an inverted v, but the lack of guy outs concerns me as I am used to more perimeter guy outs and more guy outs on the large unsupported fabric panels. It currently only has a guy out on the long side away from the door which I used with an elastic loop as per MLD recommendations. I had thought about trying to add intermediate staking points along the perimeter and guy points on the two smaller end walls ( above my head and feet) for when I really need to “batten down the hatches”.
I will be using the shelter this Summer in Wind River Range and then again in 2017 in Alaska (Wrangell St Elias NP).
One more Solomid question: I never could get the door pitched quite right. When the shelter was pitched taut with the door closed it got floppy with the door open (I keep the door open if possible) and if I restaked that point to get a good pitch with the door open, closing the door from inside the shelter was either impossible or resulted in a poor floppy pitched door. Is this just an issue with a small mid or are there ways to improve this?
My other small mid experience is a Golite SL 2 and a few nights in a Gatewood cape which was way too short for me.
