A nice member here sent me a big piece of DCF from some thing he had that didn’t work.
I harvested the hood from a broken Zpacks rain jacket and turned it into a poncho. The poncho is very breathable compared to a rain jacket, but my arms won’t stay dry unless I pull them inside. This could annoy me. I might end up bringing some bread bags and rubber bands for my arms.
And it’s a bathtub groundsheet, too.
I only need the upturned edges to provide a better boundary to keep me inside and under the canopy, and to allow any potential rain to go under the sheet rather than over it. My body weight will prevent moisture from getting through the hood. I’m pretty good at campsite selection. I do not intend to sleep in a lake with this.
Here’s a closeup of a line I added to pull the long edges fully under the canopy.
It weighs 4.4 oz, most of the weight is the hood with its little bit of zipper. My rain jacket is 6.1 oz so it saves a little bit of weight, but it’s significantly heavier than a polycryo or a DCF groundsheet.
