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Post by cweston on May 24, 2020 11:52:48 GMT -8
My current solo tent has lived a good life, but it is old and weighs more than my 2p Tarptent Stratospire. So, it is permanently retired.
I love my Stratospire 2: but it only weighs about 6 oz more than a Stratospire 1, per the website specs. I’m not spending $350 to gain 6 ozs when I don’t usually go solo. When the kids were teenagers, it was important to have different possible tent configurations, but that’s no longer a consideration.
So, I could spend way more than $350 on a dynema solo tent. But I’m not made of money. I’m guessing I’ll just carry my Strat2 on my solo trips this summer/fall. I travel fairly light—6 ozs won’t kill me.
Unless someone has a Strat 1 or comparable tent they’re looking to sell...
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Post by zeke on May 24, 2020 12:05:01 GMT -8
Such are the choices we live with. 6 ounces certainly isn't nothing, but after the first meal, it seems like nothing. However, 6 ounces carried for 6 days adds up to over 2 pounds in the total trip pack weight. Just one more way to be a gram weenie.
As for my own choice, I will stay with my current set up, which is mostly use my hammock, and carry a tent only when no hammocks are allowed.
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Post by cweston on May 24, 2020 12:08:37 GMT -8
Yeah...everything's up in the air, but I'm probably looking at a number of smaller solo trips in late summer/early fall, if conditions allow for that. So, no carrying a week+ worth of food/fuel. On a one- or two-nighter, I'm not going to kvetch too much about 6 ounces.
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Post by jazzmom on May 24, 2020 12:47:09 GMT -8
Do you have a target weight? What does your current Strat2 weigh?
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Post by trinity on May 24, 2020 12:49:25 GMT -8
Without realizing it, I think I have gone for over 2 years without carrying a tent on a backpacking trip. I almost exclusively use tarps nowadays. A Solomid XL in silnylon wouldn't set you back too much, and weighs barely over a pound. Or, even cheaper and lighter, an 8x10 silpoly flat tarp.
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Post by cweston on May 24, 2020 13:07:08 GMT -8
Do you have a target weight? What does your current Strat2 weigh? The listed weight for the Strat 2, with stakes and stuff sack, is 45 oz. The listed weight for the Strat 1, with stakes and stuff sack, is 38 oz. So, I was mistaken--they differ by 7 oz, not 6. I don't really have a target weight...I was just starting to look around. If I were to buy a tarptent, I'd probably go with the Notch, which is 11 oz lighter than the Strat 1. |
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Post by reuben on May 24, 2020 14:12:52 GMT -8
The Notch has "Zipperless double side entry". How do the doors close? Velcro?
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Post by cweston on May 24, 2020 14:25:17 GMT -8
The Notch has "Zipperless double side entry". How do the doors close? Velcro? That's so funny--I had noticed that, too. As long as it's not those tiny little snaps they put on baby clothes. |
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Post by reuben on May 24, 2020 14:33:19 GMT -8
The Notch Li has "Two-way waterproof zippers for outstanding ventilation", so maybe it took the zipper from the silnylon version. Li has "two way" zippers, silnylon has "no way" zippers.
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Post by franco on May 24, 2020 16:49:54 GMT -8
The sil version has the two panels overlapping with a Velcro strip in the middle. Easy to see how it works on the set up video (in the product page).  Having the SS2 already I too would suggest the Notch. ( I have used both) |
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