Tarps, tipis, condensation and the case for not sealing yourself in.
Don’t build a bubble. Shelter that breathes keeps you drier than shelter that seals.
Rain, dew, frost and your own breath all end up inside a sealed tent. These guides cover tent condensation and how to reduce it, the case for sleeping outside without a tent under a tarp, and how cotton canvas sheds water without a plastic coating. If you own a canvas shelter, canvas tent care walks through seasoning, mildew, re-waxing and winter storage.
They sit alongside our non-toxic tents, tarps and ground sheets — but the advice holds whatever you pitch.
Canvas tent care comes down to air and patience: let the canvas dry every time it gets wet, keep it off damp ground, and give it wax when the rain stops beading. Beeswax organic canvas has no coating to peel and no membrane to fail, so a Lucky Sheep® canvas tipi that is dried, aired
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Sleeping outside without a tent is how I have spent most of my nights in the woods, and it is how I would tell almost anyone to start. A tarp open at both ends keeps the rain off and lets the night air move through, so you wake up in fresh air instead of your
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Tent condensation is the water you wake up in: droplets hanging from the shelter, dew on the gear, moisture in the air around you after a cool, damp night. The conventional solution is to fight it. At Lucky Sheep® we take a different approach—invite the weather in, and use natural materials that know what to
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Tipis and Log Cabins: Shared Era, Different Worlds What do tipis and log cabins have in common? They are both dwellings from overlapping but very different cultural and geographic contexts in North American history. I just got back from a festival at The Center for Pioneer Living, only a stone’s throw from the Lucky Sheep
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When it comes to wilderness preparedness, the phrase “think positive” doesn’t apply. Actually this is one time the best practice is to think negative. That is, consider all the possibilities of what could go wrong on a hike. Then using a checklist, make sure you have covered all the bases. Then you can hit the
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