Shawn W. Baker wrote: > something like that. They're characterized by their blue uniform shirts > and plaid neckercheifs, and their propensity for starting small fires > with copious quantities of VOC-laden liquids. Ah yes. The tribe sounds familiar. Several names depending on geography, but same basic idea. > At 6'-6", I have the same tent-finding problem. I picked up a Jansport > RongBuk Hotel > It is a 3-4 season tent with two vestibules. The floor of the tent is > roughly 6' x 9', so it sleeps 3 plus gear comfortably. There's also > plenty of room in the vestibules for more gear. It's 8 lbs. though. > Not as pleasant for backpacking, but once you get it to camp, it's > wonderful! It does take up more space than a smaller tent, but in a sea > kayak, who cares?! Sounds like about the same floor plan and lay out as the expedition-25, and the same problems with weight and packed volume. I'm debating between a big "family dome" style tent to bring the wife and child along and a couple smaller tents, to let the child be in seperate tent, and let mom and dad have some private space. Maybe even a walmart special car camping tent, with two rooms. I still have a little time, since I have been informed that tent camping and diapers are not an acceptable combination. Realisticly, kayak camping with a child isn't going to work until the kid is 6-7. She's too big to sit on a lap, and not there yet to help paddle. Not heavy enough to help balance trim in a double. And I'm still trying to decide if I want to escape the family or bring them along camping, so scaling equipment has been a problem. So perhaps a new question, what is the ideal kayak camping group size? For safety, I probably shouldn't paddle alone too much, but at what size does it get out of hand and needs to be divided into sub-groups. Also what sort of scaling of equipment makes sense? everyone with their own cook gear, or one person in charge of meals for the group? Same with tents, sharing of tents, or everyone with a bivy sack or equiv? dave *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Aug 15 2000 - 11:32:33 PDT
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