View Full Version : New (relatively) hooped tarp from Integral Designs
Just thought I'd share this find:
http://www.integraldesigns.com/product_detail.cfm?id=847&CFID=32528&CFTOKEN=39698109&mainproducttypeid=1
Looks pretty good for 2 people who want a tarp with 360 degree protection from wind and rain. Comes in green, too.
I took some pictures of that one yesterday, I did not post them here because it isn't a hammock after all .....
Franco
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e389/Francophoto/Room-for-2.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e389/Francophoto/Arial-view.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e389/Francophoto/The-other-side.jpg
Toolshed
12-27-2007, 01:09
I like it except the headroom (space above your head) looks kinda tight when sleeping. I' be interested in any reviews.
take-a-knee
12-27-2007, 02:06
That thing looks way cool but it needs some bugnet along the bottom edge, like the original floorless tarptent. You could make it removeable with omnitape, for that price, it should come with it.
Frolicking Dinosaurs
12-27-2007, 07:47
Looks like something I designed a while back -- it looks sort of like a double rainbow without the walls inside and without a floor -- mine had bugnet that rolls away when not needed, zip-entry on two sides and the pole is 14 instead of 12 feet (more headroom and storage space). I wasn't able to use it myself for the same reason I couldn't use the Rainbow - exiting wasn't possible for me due to my injured right leg.
One of my friends is using it - he hikes with a large dog and an 11 yo
It looks very similar to their silshelter with the addition of a front zipper and a hoop. The height of the silshelter is not quite high enough for me to sit up but then I don't have to carry around excess weight for more material and I am mostly lounging in it or sleeping in it anyway, when I use it. It does make it slightly harder to wiggle into one's clothing, but then I do not pay a weight penalty here, either. But it is very weatherproof and I once spent an entire day hunkered down in it in an almost constant cold, heavy, downpour in the southern San Juans, a day or so out of Pasgosa Springs in Colorado and i never got wet and I don't use a ground cloth. I never felt I needed a bug net for the lower bottom, which must be kept high so as to eliminate the formation of interior condensation.
Maybe you should have a look at my shots, I know that it is painful for some, but you will see that it is nothing like the Silshelter or any other single hoop shelter I have seen.
Franco
Thanks, Franco. Looking at the pictures will show people that it is an aerodynamic, hooped, double ended, symmetrical shelter.
Have you tried it in the wind yet? I suspect that it would do well. The above mentioned characteristics should make it excel (plus the hoop adds a good deal of useable headroom). The fact that I rarely travel with others and that I own a Hilleberg Akto prevent me from running out and buying one of these today.
The shelter is already gone back to the agents, I only borrowed it to see how it was designed.
This is a shot of the other side
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e389/Francophoto/The-other-side.jpg
As you can see from the aerial shot, the floor shape is that of a parallelogram and it is indeed very aerodynamic.
Franco