Thanks for your comment. I've always been a "tarp-under-the-tent" kinda guy. It's just a little bit extra protection for the tent floor from wear and tear from rocks and also the ubiquitous pine sap! I simply got distracted and forgot to fold the tarp under the tent. I've been doing it this way for decades and sooner or later I was bound to mess up. You got to witness it! lol
Exactly.... I could never figure out the backwards logic of having all the rain .. run off the tent to the be caught on the tarp, to be guided under the tent. It makes zero sense to me. But I've seen it a lot. We are on the water, and paddling by ... clothes-line, after clothes line, after clothes line. Every sleeping bag ... soaked to the max, probably weighing 20 pounds lol. What clothes, wet gear, wet azz. While I use a clear thicker poly plastic, cut to fit my tents, that goes inside the tent, and up the walls 6",, propped up around the edges. During one torrential 2 day rain, I've had 4" of water under the tent ... and we were absolutely 10,000% absolutely perfectly bone dry !! And it can rain blinding hard ... all night long, and I sleep like a rock, cause I know .... everything is dry dry dry. At the end of a rainy day .... You can lead a horse to water but you can't make them think. LOL
Tarp should go in the tent, then doesn't get any moisture on it at all and provides a protection between your dry gear inside 😉.
Thanks for your comment. I've always been a "tarp-under-the-tent" kinda guy. It's just a little bit extra protection for the tent floor from wear and tear from rocks and also the ubiquitous pine sap! I simply got distracted and forgot to fold the tarp under the tent. I've been doing it this way for decades and sooner or later I was bound to mess up. You got to witness it! lol
Exactly....
I could never figure out the backwards logic of having all the rain .. run off the tent to the be caught on the tarp, to be guided under the tent.
It makes zero sense to me.
But I've seen it a lot.
We are on the water, and paddling by ... clothes-line, after clothes line, after clothes line.
Every sleeping bag ... soaked to the max, probably weighing 20 pounds lol.
What clothes, wet gear, wet azz.
While I use a clear thicker poly plastic, cut to fit my tents, that goes inside the tent, and up the walls 6",, propped up around the edges.
During one torrential 2 day rain, I've had 4" of water under the tent ... and we were absolutely 10,000%
absolutely perfectly bone dry !!
And it can rain blinding hard ... all night long, and I sleep like a rock, cause I know .... everything is dry dry dry.
At the end of a rainy day ....
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make them think. LOL
Yup