Gossamer Gear polycro ground cloth
Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 9:10 pm
I ordered the medium, seems after I order it, I found out they come in different thicknesses, with the large being the thickest. Not sure if the medium and small are the same thickness. Anyway, I received the medium, 40" x 96", packed 2 to the package, dirt cheap. $5.00, shipping was included I believe. http://www.gossamergear.com/cgi-bin/gos ... cloth.html Sit down now, they weight 1.6 ozs. each. Even the now used one still weighs that. They come folded up and are about the size of three folded up ladies rain bonnets. I had a little difficulty though Friday night deploying it. I spread out the thing and thought, this is too narrow. My Thermarest LE was a tiny bit wider than the ground cloth. Anyway, it worked. I tried to separate it earlier or that night but had no luck, it looked like it had been cut too narrow. Gossamer Gear is great. I emailed them this afternoon and received a reply already. It seems the stuff comes doubled up on a roll and you have to separate it to get the desired width. Use two pieces of tape on the open side and pull. That makes it easy to separate the two sides. It is slick, so your bag and pad may slide some. I found myself inching downhill a little the first night and did ok the second night out. The stuff is like sitting on your thick bp mattress which causes the pad to slide some, so you need to take precautions to get everthing lined up. Remember, I was trying to stay on something only 20" wide As it seems with most ultralight stuff I have tried, you have to think of the main goal, light weight gear has some trade offs and a lighter pack. This stuff isn't supposed to last long though. I hope it makes it on a week long trip. Just my experience so far. By the way, have you weighed your piece of Tyvek? That stuff isn't as light as I thought. I found out the custom piece for my Tarptent Squall weighs .47 lbs.
Hope everyone had a great 4th of July.
Hope everyone had a great 4th of July.