AT Habitat, Atlas, & Summit Pictures, ideas, aaand BS

Well... i gave in and bought the habitat enclosure. Should be here in a few days.

 

Nice!

I am resisting for the time being. I'm sure on the next trip where we will be stationary for more than a couple nights I will pull the trigger.

Make sure to post some pics and your thoughts. Curious how easy it installs / deploys

 

Same here. We'll see, looks pretty sweet especially considering all its been doing here is raining.

 

..its June 12 2020. last time I got out was Mar 9 2020.



truck mostly parked and doing some maintenance and project re-do's

new bolt R



new bolt L


bolt placement determined to be the spots to hold it together

trial and error

 

Ordered a habitat. Now the long wait.

 

Ooooooo

 

Worth it

 

Nice I'm currently waiting for mine also. The lead time definitely isn't as bad as a couple other camper companies.

 

Look what just showed up

 

Oh Neat. A bag with the AT logo!

 

I also got a tshirt and sticker lol

 

After a windy camping trip, I was wondering if anyone came up with a good way to guy the Habitat out. I found these grip clips online and am curious if I should try them out. What do you all think?

 

what part are you trying to guy out? ive been in some pretty windy places and never worried about it.

If anything, i'm going to wrap some tape around the zippers so they don't go TINK TINK TINK TINK TINK TINK TINK. that was the most annoying thing by far.

 

Imagine the Red line going up and under the side overhang all the way to the side of the tent against the inner hoop. And then something off the corners. The wind we had the other night I felt like the hoops weren't going to hold up. Was hitting me about 45 degrees to broadside at first, and turned the truck to be pretty close to straight into the wind and that seemed to help a bit, but the wind picked up more and I was seriously worried something was going to break.

 

I have some that are very similar to this that work pretty well. They’re obviously only useable on edges and corners though.

8Pc Heavy-Duty Tarp Clips with Carabiner - Sliding-Lock Grip - Quilt Hangers

https://www.amazon.com/8Pc-Heavy-Duty-Tarp-Clips-Carabiner/dp/B01KTULL80

 

Yeah, I looked at those but worry they concentrate the load too much. Not exactly sure where I'd attach either. How wide can you open then?

 

Not very. Can put a layer or two of cheap blue tarp in there, and that’s about it. I could measure it when I get home if it helps.

 

I was thinking more along the lines of opening wide enough to clamp the material around the internal hoops, that way it would hold the material AND the internal structure.

 

Maybe heat shrink on the zipper pulls?