Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Equipment Change

I starting thinking over the weekend that my wife might want to join me on a future backpacking trip or just do some old fashioned car camping like we did long ago. With that in mind I swapped out the Big Agnes Fly Creek UL1 for the Fly Creek UL 2 person. The other issue is that I'm a big guy and the one person tent just felt like a coffin once I set it up and managed to slide inside. Amazingly the two person version weights only 7 ounces more but has a lot more floor space and a little more headroom inside so I can actually sit up. For an older solo backpacker to have a little more room and comfort at night with not much weight gain it seemed like a good idea. REI's return policy is exceptional. I just exchanged tents and paid the $50 difference in cost between versions. Awesome!

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