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Borah Gear Borah Bivy vs MSR Wawona 6
Borah Gear Borah Bivy
21 positive (100%) · 0 mixed (0%) · 0 negative (0%)
Trust + time weighted: +100%
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A Borah tarp and bivy will be as low as $150 total, and will be under a pound. And this isn't even a comprmise really, this is the gold standard of UL shelters without jumping to DCF prices
just throw a Borah bivy inside it for way less weight and bulk.
A 6 oz DCF 7x9 tarp + a 4 oz Borah bivy is 10 oz, still lighter than any tent
I think a floorless pyramid shelter and breathable bivy (like Borah) is the most versatile if you also like to cowboy camp.
Some tarp users like the roughly 5 oz borah bivy (breathable/non-waterproof bivy bag) or similar bug bivy, which you can treat with permethrin as desired, to protect against ticks, splashes/mud, and provide ground cloth. Plus, some people appreciate a bivy bag against Appalachian Trail shelter mice.
MSR Wawona 6
22 positive (88%) · 1 mixed (4%) · 2 negative (8%)
Trust + time weighted: +80%
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The Wawona has almost none [water intrusion], despite the partial fly and being in torrential rain for multiple days straight.
Parent context: This review video made me buy the Wawona 6 tent. Never looking back. I love it. Spoiler for the review: It withstands heavy rain. Reply: This review also made me buy it as well!! So far in heavy “atmospheric river” rain. We were in about 3” for about 1 1/2 days and it stayed dry. We fit 2 queens in but it touches the side walls of the tent. Had no issues.
This review video made me buy the Wawona 6 tent. Never looking back. I love it. Spoiler for the review: It withstands heavy rain.
The Wawona 6 looked like it was perfect--it had that same roughly 10x8' footprint. It's tall... It has that amazing vestibule that we can use to change the kids in and out of bathingsuit, store gear, and have a place out of the bugs when we're settling the boys down to sleep. It keeps water out.
I purchased an orange one and set it up in the yard to try it and hated the color so so much that I returned it. I love a lot of orange colors, but this orange was like a faded neon traffic cone. The brown that it is stitched to reminded myself and the person setting it up with me of newborn baby poop. Overall we returned it, I might have gotten a gray one but the floor size was a little small for us and headroom in the vestibule too low.