Doors vs. No Doors

[deadeye]

meet life halfway - get a doorless tarp, and carry one door attachment for the windward end.

[OneClick]

meet life halfway - get a doorless tarp, and carry one door attachment for the windward end.

I used to think this way, until the windward end became all four ends on half of my trips!

[SilvrSurfr]

meet life halfway - get a doorless tarp, and carry one door attachment for the windward end.

This assumes that the "windward end" will remain windward. I live in a coastal area and the prevailing wind can shift every few minutes, so you're all set up for wind that suddenly shifts and comes from a different direction. I was once camping on an island in the Adirondacks, trying to set up my son's hex tarp in the rain. I wanted the tarp to take the rain broadside, but as soon as I set the tarp up, the winds would shift and the rain would start coming in through the ends. I finally had to move his setup inland to a hollow that was less susceptible to the winds. Of course, you can't always find such features, which is why doors pretty much eliminate concerns about "site selection."

[OneClick]

This assumes that the "windward end" will remain windward. I live in a coastal area and the prevailing wind can shift every few minutes, so you're all set up for wind that suddenly shifts and comes from a different direction. I was once camping on an island in the Adirondacks, trying to set up my son's hex tarp in the rain. I wanted the tarp to take the rain broadside, but as soon as I set the tarp up, the winds would shift and the rain would start coming in through the ends. I finally had to move his setup inland to a hollow that was less susceptible to the winds. Of course, you can't always find such features, which is why doors pretty much eliminate concerns about "site selection."

Pretty much true everywhere I've been too. In the woods you have a pine grove there, a lake there, an opening there, etc. No wind simply blasts right thru everything in one direction. It sorta gets channeled and does whatever it wants, which is, change every 7 seconds. In that video, it was coming from 8 different directions. Wet from all 4 sides. The strongest blasts were from the east. I know for a fact the storm came from the NW. And the wind all day before the rain was from the SW.

[wbJohn]

I started with an 11 foot hex tarp. Then got a 12 foot hex tarp. Then a 12 foot with doors and internal pole mods. The doors win every time. Privacy and protection when I want them. Tie the doors back when I don't. I camp out of my kayak or car, so I don't care about weight.

[TallPaul]

Another vote for doors.

Been in swirling wind with rain and been very thankful to have the doors. Save money or weight elsewhere if you have to. Important to stay dry.

[Shagginwagon]

Vote for doors. I like typing them out to make my tarp a bit bigger when it is nice out

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[Groundskeeper]

Watching the snow blowing horizontally passed my face through the open end of the tarp which became a wind tunnel... that did it for me. Doors.

[Silverpalm2x]

I vote for doors. I have an ENo Profly and never used it in the rain. I got a superfly and have never regretted the extra space and doors.

[MikekiM]

Both of my tarps have doors. Literally an ounce of prevention.

They are tied back most of the time. But when I need them I have them.


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