Light weight is a virtue when bike camping. A small, light shelter will take up less cargo weight and space.
But you need to decide how light is too light, e.g. what comfort features are desired. Bivy sacks are about the ultimate in light weight; they're not much more than a cocoon for your body. You usually can't sit up in them, and they usually require staking out (they're not freestanding). Hammock shelters are also very minimal. But you'll have to insulate the bottom of your body somehow if staying out in cool or cold weather. It seems to me like a hammock quilt would add bulk and negate the hammock's weight and space savings. Also, hammocks require trees. Single wall tents are lighter than double wall (light wall plus rain proof fly), but they don't usually ventilate as well. You can usually open up the fly or remove it entirely for ventilation on a double wall tent. Some tents are totally freestanding (no stakes required in calm wind), some require stake-outs. Personally, I prefer to use a 2-person lightweight double wall tent. I'm giving up about a half of a pound in weight and a couple cubic inches in space compared to a 1-person double wall tent, but I have enough head space to sit up and enough floor space to keep my gear inside with me. I buy tents on closeout from internet sites like Campmor, Sierra Trading Post, the Clymb, or eBay (from reputable sellers). I'm very happy with the Big Agnes tent I bought almost 15 years ago. Big Agnes has excellent customer service; I contacted them a couple years ago about a broken aluminum pole (some fool fell on it), and they sent me two pole sections without charge! Cheers, Tim On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 11:13 AM, BenG <[email protected]> wrote: > State parks within 30 miles on 3 compass points, and I have yet to do an > S24O. This is my year. What tent do you recommend, please? And thank you, > Ben > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
