I have lived for weeks in tents of all kinds.
They needed to be small and portable My favorite was a small Pup tent looking type tent that had 1 pole in front and 1 in back, a small wire stake for each corner. Was called 2 man tent.
All wadded up into a ball it is the size of a softball.
It was parachute type material and i used thompsons on it in the mid 1980's it helped but seams would leak.
It had a floor but same material...
When i would set it up i would do it under a cedar or pine tree, make a bed of needles and lay down a tarp and set tent up on the tarp.
If bad weather was to be in the forecast i would take another tarp and install over it.
I no longer took my tent poles.. I would make poles from sticks and use string to tie up the tarps and strings and rocks for securing the corners...
I rode out some really bad storms in that tent...I think i still have it packed away, thing cost me something like $4.95 or $9.95 34 years ago.
Last used it about 12 years ago deer hunting trip ..Buddy had an SST (sixty second tent) very awesome. another buddy
had some abbreviated name tent, then they would call my little tent the S.H.I.T. tent.
Well they complained of hard rocks and holes the next morning and i was not complaining on my pine needle bed i made under my tent and tarp....They thought i was a bit weird setting my tent up...Next evening they had pine needles under their tents.
That probably is not what you are looking for.
I have also slept in a small hammock with a string over the top between the 2 trees and i draped a very large contractor lawn and leaf bag that i split down the seam over the string ...kept me dry in the rain.
One note on that.. install hammock high enough that when the trees sag during the rain that your butt stays up off the ground or you will have a wet butt in the morning.
Those contractor bags are awesome in a down pour.
You can open it up and poof it full of air and pull it over the top of you and ride out the storm under a tree ...
Another use for those bags is flotation.
You can poof it full of air and pull the open ends down into the water, basically making a giant floating bubble.
Then you can swim under and up into that bubble and secure your feet and legs and float down river with a bunch of your body up in the bubble.. good for 10+ minutes before the air needs freshened.
Cheap tarps = contractor bags
bigger = duct taped together bags
They needed to be small and portable My favorite was a small Pup tent looking type tent that had 1 pole in front and 1 in back, a small wire stake for each corner. Was called 2 man tent.
All wadded up into a ball it is the size of a softball.
It was parachute type material and i used thompsons on it in the mid 1980's it helped but seams would leak.
It had a floor but same material...
When i would set it up i would do it under a cedar or pine tree, make a bed of needles and lay down a tarp and set tent up on the tarp.
If bad weather was to be in the forecast i would take another tarp and install over it.
I no longer took my tent poles.. I would make poles from sticks and use string to tie up the tarps and strings and rocks for securing the corners...
I rode out some really bad storms in that tent...I think i still have it packed away, thing cost me something like $4.95 or $9.95 34 years ago.
Last used it about 12 years ago deer hunting trip ..Buddy had an SST (sixty second tent) very awesome. another buddy
had some abbreviated name tent, then they would call my little tent the S.H.I.T. tent.
Well they complained of hard rocks and holes the next morning and i was not complaining on my pine needle bed i made under my tent and tarp....They thought i was a bit weird setting my tent up...Next evening they had pine needles under their tents.
That probably is not what you are looking for.
I have also slept in a small hammock with a string over the top between the 2 trees and i draped a very large contractor lawn and leaf bag that i split down the seam over the string ...kept me dry in the rain.
One note on that.. install hammock high enough that when the trees sag during the rain that your butt stays up off the ground or you will have a wet butt in the morning.
Those contractor bags are awesome in a down pour.
You can open it up and poof it full of air and pull it over the top of you and ride out the storm under a tree ...
Another use for those bags is flotation.
You can poof it full of air and pull the open ends down into the water, basically making a giant floating bubble.
Then you can swim under and up into that bubble and secure your feet and legs and float down river with a bunch of your body up in the bubble.. good for 10+ minutes before the air needs freshened.
Cheap tarps = contractor bags
bigger = duct taped together bags
