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Old 11-28-22 | 08:44 AM
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Tourist in MSN
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Bikes: 1961 Ideor, 1966 Perfekt 3 Speed AB Hub, 1994 Bridgestone MB-6, 2006 Airnimal Joey, 2009 Thorn Sherpa, 2013 Thorn Nomad MkII, 2015 VO Pass Hunter, 2017 Lynskey Backroad, 2017 Raleigh Gran Prix, 1980s Bianchi Mixte on a trainer. Others are now gone.

Nope, not on bike tours. I bring a big enough tent that I can get all my gear inside the tent. If it is raining in the morning, I can pack up my panniers when I am alone in my two person tent, so the tent is the last thing that needs to be packed.

Canoe or kayak trips where weight and bulk is less critical, I bring a tarp to sit under during those all day rains, and can cook under it on a stove in the rain. But do not bring on bike trips. The tarp I use for canoe trips is a Eno hammock tarp, but I do not have the hammock to use with it.

I used to bike tour with a single person tent, the last time it did that we had a lot of rain and I learned that I either needed a tarp OR a bigger tent, chose the bigger tent.

A local store has very thick plastic on some of their huge plastic bags, usually make tent ground sheets from that plastic for those times I have to set up a tent on gravel surface at a camp ground to protect the floor.

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