tent fly

An indoors outdoors activity – making a tent fly

Report and photos by Hans and Mika, image mixing by Steve Kohler. The weather forecast was perfect for the occasion: lots of rain and pretty cold.  Such days are ideal to prepare for future adventurous travels, so the seven of us (Steve, Lorraine, Mika, Hans, and three sewing machines) gathered for an excellent selfish indoor … Read more

Care of Tents/Flies

From Marie Henderson – Gear Custodian These are useful, and sometimes critical, shelters. Like all gear they can take a bit of a battering. They do better when used the right way and shown some respect. So it seemed a good topic to review. A double skin tent is one like the club alpine tents … Read more