Thread: Light weight fly camping

Ive found the best Fly’s are actually tent outers with the inner wall/ floor part removed and left at home .
My Macpac Microlite is fantastically light and in combo with some builders paper ground sheet ( with the inner removed and a small piece of ground sheet the total weight is very light) it really pays for itself when the weather really turns to shit .
A basic open ended Fly is great until the wind turns gale force and either the rain blows in horizontal, or the Fly disappears over the horizon never to be seen again . When that happens it always seems to be 2 o’clock in the morning and apart from being really uncomfortable it can be straight out dangerous.

Here’s a pic of my Fly and even though its not obvious it was bloody wet for four days and inside that little Fly was the only place that was dry and comfortable.