Solo trekking pole tent advice...

Padstowe

Thru Hiker
Paraglider camping sounds mega cool.

I read an article about a couple of guys who traversed a mountain range (somewhere?!?) paraglider camping.
Envious of those brave enough to do things like that! Not for me!
I met a guy in Turkey years ago who was telling me, him & his mate had the idea to go from Turkey to India paragliding from high point to high point with another mate in a vehicle to pick them up & take them to the next point etc..
It all went great until they were close to the Pakistan border (I think, little bit rusty in the details), where they came down & some men with guns came out of nowhere accused them of being Israelian & took them off as prisoners to their mountain camp & held them for I think 2 weeks until they found out that they were in fact Turkish & let them go.
Choose which mountains with care I guess.
Edit: He was still paragliding after it, I met him at a paragliding event near Fethiye in Oludeniz, I wasn't taking part I was just waiting for a boat.
 
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Boozawooza

Ultralighter
So...finally got the new Lunar Solo out last night and pitched it in the back field. Not much of a challenge for the tent really...a quiet and clear night with not much wind or dew...hardly any condensation, though I did leave one half of the door open.
Quality of construction is ok. The seam-sealant hasn't arrived yet so I'll do that asap. As noted elsewhere, the floor is slippy so I ended up chasing the Thermarest Uberlite and inflatable pillow around on the sloping floor.
I often go paragliding/camping and there was plenty of space to fit all my kit inside the tent with me. The vestibule door is pretty high off the ground, I suspect to aid ventilation, but anything left out there on a wet night would end up soaked . I note that the instructions recommend pitching with vestibule away from the wind and I can understand why...the wind would really get underneath that thing! I slept underneath my un-rolled paraglider and was warm enough last night without a sleeping bag(12'c).
I used one trekking pole to raise the panel above my head and a nearby stick to do likewise at the foot end which resulted in ample space to sit up without feeling I was about to contact the outer. I use 105-125cm poles but on the pitch last night it felt like a longer pole would have been useful to experiment with.
All in all it feels like a versatile shelter for summer conditions which , once a little time has been spent playing with pitching variations should be able to be pitched very swiftly.
Thanks for all the responses on here...it has been helpful.
My full pargliding-camping kit was 12.5kg...without food or water...didn't feel too bad carrying it the 100 metres to the field!:)
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Not sure why I can't view your pics
 

Mole

Thru Hiker
So...finally got the new Lunar Solo out last night and pitched it in the back field. Not much of a challenge for the tent really...a quiet and clear night with not much wind or dew...hardly any condensation, though I did leave one half of the door open.
Quality of construction is ok. The seam-sealant hasn't arrived yet so I'll do that asap. As noted elsewhere, the floor is slippy so I ended up chasing the Thermarest Uberlite and inflatable pillow around on the sloping floor.
I often go paragliding/camping and there was plenty of space to fit all my kit inside the tent with me. The vestibule door is pretty high off the ground, I suspect to aid ventilation, but anything left out there on a wet night would end up soaked . I note that the instructions recommend pitching with vestibule away from the wind and I can understand why...the wind would really get underneath that thing! I slept underneath my un-rolled paraglider and was warm enough last night without a sleeping bag(12'c).
I used one trekking pole to raise the panel above my head and a nearby stick to do likewise at the foot end which resulted in ample space to sit up without feeling I was about to contact the outer. I use 105-125cm poles but on the pitch last night it felt like a longer pole would have been useful to experiment with.
All in all it feels like a versatile shelter for summer conditions which , once a little time has been spent playing with pitching variations should be able to be pitched very swiftly.
Thanks for all the responses on here...it has been helpful.
My full pargliding-camping kit was 12.5kg...without food or water...didn't feel too bad carrying it the 100 metres to the field!:)
photo
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To show each image, need to click "view full size" on FB and then use that URL in the treklite image post box.

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Out of interest, is the(unseen) tent door closed or open in this pic? I often see pictures of LSs where the door panel hems are not taut, so the panel is baggy like in this pic. If the wind got up that would flap a lot. The Six Moons own promo pictures are like this. Which is a bit of a turn off to me.
 
To show each image, need to click "view full size" on FB and then use that URL in the treklite image post box.

E. G.
96518309_3745796238825583_3870705044907098112_o.jpg


Out of interest, is the(unseen) tent door closed or open in this pic? I often see pictures of LSs where the door panel hems are not taut, so the panel is baggy like in this pic. If the wind got up that would flap a lot. The Six Moons own promo pictures are like this. Which is a bit of a turn off to me.

The unseen door is open, which is why the near one is a bit saggy. I did experiment a bit with the door panel line position to get it all taut. The door remains quite high though, so you would definitely want to pitch it facing away from the prevailing wind. A 180 degree shift in the night could be 'intetesting' !
 

Mole

Thru Hiker
The unseen door is open, which is why the near one is a bit saggy. I did experiment a bit with the door panel line position to get it all taut. The door remains quite high though, so you would definitely want to pitch it facing away from the prevailing wind. A 180 degree shift in the night could be 'intetesting' !
Ah. That explains it.

I'd still like to see the "new" green ones.
 
I met a guy in Turkey years ago who was telling me, him & his mate had the idea to go from Turkey to India paragliding from high point to high point with another mate in a vehicle to pick them up & take them to the next point etc..
It all went great until they were close to the Pakistan border (I think, little bit rusty in the details), where they came down & some men with guns came out of nowhere accused them of being Israelian & took them off as prisoners to their mountain camp & held them for I think 2 weeks until they found out that they were in fact Turkish & let them go.
Choose which mountains with care I guess.
Edit: He was still paragliding after it, I met him at a paragliding event near Fethiye in Oludeniz, I wasn't taking part I was just waiting for a boat.

Yikes...sounds like close call! I've only done 'vol-biv' ,as it's called, in my local area of Snowdonia so being abducted is fairly low on the list of challenges. Flying safely and avoiding sheep tics are the biggest challenges!:)
 

WilliamC

Thru Hiker
So...finally got the new Lunar Solo out last night and pitched it in the back field. Not much of a challenge for the tent really...a quiet and clear night with not much wind or dew...hardly any condensation, though I did leave one half of the door open.
Quality of construction is ok. The seam-sealant hasn't arrived yet so I'll do that asap. As noted elsewhere, the floor is slippy so I ended up chasing the Thermarest Uberlite and inflatable pillow around on the sloping floor.
I often go paragliding/camping and there was plenty of space to fit all my kit inside the tent with me. The vestibule door is pretty high off the ground, I suspect to aid ventilation, but anything left out there on a wet night would end up soaked . I note that the instructions recommend pitching with vestibule away from the wind and I can understand why...the wind would really get underneath that thing! I slept underneath my un-rolled paraglider and was warm enough last night without a sleeping bag(12'c).
I used one trekking pole to raise the panel above my head and a nearby stick to do likewise at the foot end which resulted in ample space to sit up without feeling I was about to contact the outer. I use 105-125cm poles but on the pitch last night it felt like a longer pole would have been useful to experiment with.
All in all it feels like a versatile shelter for summer conditions which , once a little time has been spent playing with pitching variations should be able to be pitched very swiftly.
Thanks for all the responses on here...it has been helpful.
My full pargliding-camping kit was 12.5kg...without food or water...didn't feel too bad carrying it the 100 metres to the field!:)
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Thanks for sharing the info and photos. Have you tried rolling water down the netting to see if it runs down?
 

WilliamC

Thru Hiker
To show each image, need to click "view full size" on FB and then use that URL in the treklite image post box.

E. G.
96518309_3745796238825583_3870705044907098112_o.jpg


Out of interest, is the(unseen) tent door closed or open in this pic? I often see pictures of LSs where the door panel hems are not taut, so the panel is baggy like in this pic. If the wind got up that would flap a lot. The Six Moons own promo pictures are like this. Which is a bit of a turn off to me.
I can't see your image without clicking on it either, @Mole.
 

Nevis

Thru Hiker
The unseen door is open, which is why the near one is a bit saggy. I did experiment a bit with the door panel line position to get it all taut. The door remains quite high though, so you would definitely want to pitch it facing away from the prevailing wind. A 180 degree shift in the night could be 'intetesting' !
Mine is high at the front as well but as i only use it in the summer i’m not that fussed about it :)
The unseen door is open, which is why the near one is a bit saggy. I did experiment a bit with the door panel line position to get it all taut. The door remains quite high though, so you would definitely want to pitch it facing away from the prevailing wind. A 180 degree shift in the night could be 'intetesting' !
 

WilliamC

Thru Hiker
You can do as Mole says, or something similar I do is to open the full image on FB they copy image & paste here. Its more or less the same just 1 or 2 less steps & seems to have worked fine for me.
Strange. I tried that in the post above yours. I could see the image in my draft post, but when I posted it it just came out as IMG and needed to be right-clicked.
Like this:
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WilliamC

Thru Hiker
Strange.

I can see it even if I log out.
Ok, so this is strange. I can't see your image nor mine in the post above. But if I open this page in a VPN, I can see them both.
I can also see them in Chrome so I guess it's a Firefox thing?
 

WilliamC

Thru Hiker
@WilliamC Maybe Turkey forgot to turn off some of their facebook restrictions after the last time they blocked it?
My first thought was that FB photos were being blocked (Imgur ones are, for example) but then I thought it was strange that I can still view the images on FB. So I tried switching to Chrome and can see the photos; the problem must be with Firefox.
 

EM-Chiseller

Thru Hiker
To show each image, need to click "view full size" on FB and then use that URL in the treklite image post box.

E. G.
96518309_3745796238825583_3870705044907098112_o.jpg


Out of interest, is the(unseen) tent door closed or open in this pic? I often see pictures of LSs where the door panel hems are not taut, so the panel is baggy like in this pic. If the wind got up that would flap a lot. The Six Moons own promo pictures are like this. Which is a bit of a turn off to me.

Not sure if it's clear in my old picture... But I have a line that runs from the bottom of the doors on my deuchutes. It's attached to the top guylines with a s-biner and a prussic for tension.
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Not sure if it's clear in my old picture... But I have a line that runs from the bottom of the doors on my deuchutes. It's attached to the top guylines with a s-biner and a prussic for tension.
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Hi Chiseller.
Yes there's a prussik loop with a hook for attaching and tensioning the bottom of the doors. I think on the instruction sheet it said to put the front guy-line underneath the doors.
Nice colour tent!
 

EM-Chiseller

Thru Hiker
Hi Chiseller.
Yes there's a prussik loop with a hook for attaching and tensioning the bottom of the doors. I think on the instruction sheet it said to put the front guy-line underneath the doors.
Nice colour tent!
You can not have the front leading guyline (from the top) inside the doors on the deuchutes. Tent is just grey with morning sunlight :thumbsup:
 

fluffkitten

Moderator
Staff member
I can't see your image without clicking on it either, @Mole.

Some browsers are now "sandboxing" Facebook so you end up not being able to see links from there. I use Facebook Container on Firefox which does that. To see FB links I have to right click on the IMG tag then click save image location followed by pasting that into a new tab.
 
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