Night Cat is a super-budget brand of tent that you can find on Amazon. When I say, “super-budget”, I mean dirt cheap - like as low as $40 dirt cheap. But I have several of them that Amazon sent me to review, and they really are not bad at all. They have interesting designs and are full featured. Of course, it would be prudent for anybody buying one of these tents to do your own thorough waterproofing on the seems as well as spraying the surface.
Here is one particular tent by Night Cat that has the pole structure on the outside, I think it’s pretty clever. The rain fly and the inner net mesh is separated, but pitches all together. Pretty nifty.
Gettin’ outta the glorious rain in the glorious backcountry with my glorious dog
I found this video interesting as it relates to conversations we have about the true nature of things, what is really important and what is not, and how little importance some things have depending on the needs of the moment.
For example, this guy and his fellow soldiers, while being shot at would just dump their blankets - the blankets were totally unimportant to the immediate goal of staying alive. This meant later suffering, but at least they were alive.
I think about this sort of thing all the time when seeing guys building elaborate, beautiful shelters in the woods. When you’re hungry and lost, or simply traveling through the wilderness, nobody is going to care about building an elaborate shelter. You’re only going to care about conserving energy and using energy for only things that are absolutely necessary in any given moment.
This means sleeping under a rock outcrop, or a fallen tree, or just trying to get through the night under your sweater and some leaves you scrounge ...
