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TIP: The online Bushwalk Inventory System can help bushwalkers with a variety of bushwalk planning tasks, including: Manage which items they take bushwalking so that they do not forget anything they might need, plan meals for their walks, and automatically compile food/fuel shopping lists (lists of consumables) required to make and cook the meals for each walk. It is particularly useful for planning for groups who share food or other items, but is also useful for individual walkers.Re: Tarps. Who uses them?
Wed 28 Sep, 2011 9:37 am
Bronski wrote:A bit of glamour in the backcountry!Are you able to get darker shades of bridal veil? And wondering about the no-see-ums? Do we have those in Australia? Would the bridal veil mesh be small enough?
Yes, I could get some pretty racy stuff but I go with a simple unadorned style.
It isn't as fine a mesh, but I've never camped where there are noseeums. The coarser mesh breathes better.
Here is a shot of regular noseeum and plain bridal veil:
Re: Tarps. Who uses them?
Mon 25 Jun, 2012 8:23 pm
I really like the notion of tarping it but most of my hiking is alpine, so I guess that as an emergency shelter, stowed away in my pack on hikes from hut to hut it would serve quite well but as a regular shelter it might be a stretch. I've not tried one but I'd imagine that snow would be hard to stop from drifting onto your face unless you bivy it as well. Then, coupled with a bivy, the weight would be comparable to a tent and the main benefit (as I see it) would be negated. It's still pretty tempting though!
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