yeah road, guess thats the way it goes here on the east coast. still looks like a blast! sounds like they threw ya some curveballs to keep you on your toes.    bailing wire?&%$^# go figure.....hahahaah

Nice! cooler temps, wet, fire........looks like a great time!  dirt the whole way? go east coast! go!

went ahead and ordered the tarptent moment, this looks like the perfect tent for what I'll be doing, thanks again bart for all your help.

hahaha, never thought of that, but i think I'll try it. you've been a wealth of information..........I used to ride motorcycles all over this great land, and spent a few wet nights broken down under bridges and such, no fun. I'm a little more scared out in the wilderness where help could be harder to find. It's all bicycles for me now, exercise fresh air, its great! i almost got chased out of the woods in the adirondacks by a grunting deer one night, woke me up three times. only to come home and find out from a buddy that hunts that it wasnt a deer at all, it was a black bear. ooohh, freaky, had i known then i probably would have ran out of there and came back in the morning. lots to learn for this city slicker.

I used an MSR hubba hubba, it worked great, torrential rains for a few hours during the night. I stayed dry, just a little spray, i guess this could have been condensation spraying down from the rain hammering the fly? or slight leakage? the tent weighs in at 5lbs, and I'd like to get the weight down if i could. I really haven't camped in weather that was in the 30's, only down to the upper 40's. more and more i'm liking the moment and the liner it has.

the exped vela 1 definitely looks like the driest tent out there for torrential rains. looks like there's no perfect all around tent, exped for borderline freezing rains, early spring, and late fall , and the moment from late spring to early fall........... 

CTR......hahaha, your definately hardcore! for me i think probably weak is all that is left when i use my little bit of strength,8>(..... after getting wet and hypothermic like that, I probably would have just laid there,shriveled up and died! hahaha I wonder if having a nice layer of fat on would help in these type of situations?...i dont wanna find out

damn dry wood! i've had success with dry grasses and small shavings and twigs in the backyard even using a flint and knife combo when it was wet out, but in west virginia this year I just coudnt get a fire started using a little camp fuel and a lighter, I managed to get the shavings going, but the twigs i found were just too wet. anyway, i'm problably gonna stick with a double wall tent, just have to figure which one, MSR carbon reflex is like $5oo. (cringe) Thanks again for all the info

thanks for all the info bart, one thing i dont have for sure are mad skills, i'm a suburbanite from new jersey. I do like the camping and bike touring. trying to get my camping gear weight down a bit , or I'll never fit this stuff into my revelate bags. On previous tours i had my 4 ortieb panniers stuffed to the gills. I got caught in west viginia this spring in some severe rain storms that lasted through the night and my tent held up fine, just a little spray got through but nothing to soak me. we were in the middle of nowhere, with no place to hide should our equipment have gotten wet. This brings me back to the flycreek 1 or possibly the msr carbon reflex 1. I'm no racer, but i do plan on future bikepacking trips. so many options, but i cant just keep buying new tents or I'll be in the poor house. oh thats right, i'm already in the poor house. speaking of mad skills, do you carry an axe with u for starting fires? how do u get a fire started when all the woods wet?

maybe I'll go for a more breathable bivy, and give the tarp a real shot on a trip/ rainstorm before i give up on it. any suggestions on a breathable lightweight bivy?

I've bicycle toured and camped in the adirondacks, and west virginia using a 2 person tent(5 lbs.). been in some pretty good rain storms as well. I have an MSR e-wing tarp, and the AC bivy, for some reason I cant see myself staying all that dry in a rainy windy storm, only used it in the backyard and it wasn't raining. have you ever been through an all out rain storm using a tarp set up? I also get kinda claustrophobic inside that bivy and its roomy.   

I'm mostly going to be camping in the Northeast, lots of rain, and bugs.
solomid?
moment?
decisions, decisions

yes, i like the looks of this moment

I'm considering the mountain laurel designs Solomid tent and innernet, and the big agnes Fly creek 1. both look pretty light for tents, fly creek 1 looks like it may have more room than the solomid when it's innernet is in place. The solomid looks a little smaller and lighter, but by how much when the poles are considered? Anybody have any experiences or input?   

Hello, my name is Andy and I have a state problem, I'm from New Jersey, exit 6. I've been riding pretty consistently for about the last 6 years or so. My brother and I toured the Adirondack park loop from Adventure Cycling Association. We also did 2/3 of the Allegheny Mountains Loop this spring. The bikes used were Surly long haul trucker's, with panniers, and fully loaded. I recently acquired a Rohloff for my 1x1, which is also equipped with bags from Revelate Design. We camped in state forest about 75% of the time and campgrounds the rest. My tent is currently an MSR Hubba hubba, i also have a bivy sack, but it seems to make me a little claustrophobic. Anyway, hello all! 

did most of the loop the third week of may this year. took the dunmore cutoff and missed the northern part of the route. the ridge alternate in the counter clockwise direction was killer! I plan on finishing it up in the spring. for a little extra we took a wrong turn at the switzerland trail, added about two hours to the day, also killer...........

I have an Ortlieb Ultimate 5 Plus Medium Black,  brand new condition, it's been sitting in my closet, doing nothing
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