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Decidedly simple, yet high tech and ultralight, the ParaTarp provides bivouac shelter when you need to hunker down far from base camp. Space age fabric combined with years of experience gives you the absolute lightest, most rugged shelter ever built.
Devised particularly for day hunters, this versatile, lightweight rugged shelter packs up quite small (11 in. X 3) into its own tube as part of your permanent bivouac cache. |
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The ParaTarp is ideally suited as a tent with the use of available materials, like tree branches, trekking poles, an ice axe or pack stays. You get full protection from 3 sides (please note, there is no "door"), and the open front allows you to build a fire for warmth or take the chill off with one of our stoves. An overhead eave helps keep the drips out. Don't need to bivy? The ParaTarp also functions as a great catch-all shelter for your gear if you don't want to clutter up the sleeping quarters of your base camp tent. Use the the storage tube to stash things like your eyeglasses or wallet.
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We might all secretly want to test our survival skills by spending the night in the elements, but when reality bites in the teeth of a storm, this eleven ounce shelter is the best insurance you can buy. Don't leave home without it! |
| ParaTarp shown as a lean-to |
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Features & Construction
Construction: Paraglider Fabric for durability & weight savings
UV coated and waterproof.
Pegs and Poles: optional kit
Zippers: none
Doors: single
Mosquito Netting: none
Stuff Sack: included
Colors: solid white or Coyote Brown
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Specs
Assembled Dimensions: 9 feet, 6 in. X 8 feet X 5.
55 in. corner to corner across the front
Packed Dimensions: 3 in. diameter X 11 inches - can be compressed even smaller.
Height: 42 inches
Weight: 11 oz.
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ParaTarp packed |
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The ParaTarp compresses further, making it about the size of a pair of socks |
The Peg & Pole Kit is optional, for those who can't rely on the environment for their anchors. The Peg & Pole Kit makes sure you have everything to set up your shelter. Better yet, the poles "nest" inside each other, meaning you can control the elevation of your pitch.
Front Elevation: from 12 to 42 inches
Back Elevation: from 0 to 26 inches
ParaTarp weight with Peg and Pole Kit: 1 lb. 13 oz.
Peg and Pole Kit is available separately: includes front and rear poles,
12 pegs
Relative Sizes with the Peg & Pole Kit
(shown with Nalgene bottle for comparison)
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ParaTarp with Peg & Pole Kit, packed |
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The ParaTarp components |
Recommended Stoves: ParaStove and Small Stove
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The ParaPackage.
When combined with our new ParaStove, the ParaTarp is the lightest, most compact shelter and heating system available! This exceptionally efficient emergency bivouac duo is so small that it fits in the palm of both hands - shelter, stove, pipe and all weighs just 3 pounds.
ParaStove
Small Stove
ParaTarp and ParaStove Package (includes a Pipe Stabilizer)
save $22 by purchasing the package! |
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Don't need to travel this light? You can plug ANY of our stoves into our vestibule, since they sit outside.
Please note: this shelter is open ended at the front, and use with this stove will take the chill off - however, you will get more saturated warmth from a fully enclosed shelter such as our ParaTipi.
Click on our ParaStove to see details.
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| Just scoot the stove inside your vestibule for more warmth. |
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relative size to a 5'11 inch man, with optional stove |
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The ParaTarp Annex.
New! Give your ParaTarp 4 season, "living room" comfort with this retrofitable Annex. Designed to seal off the front and provide a spot for your stove. Click here for more. |
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Weather resistance & the ParaTarp
Keep in mind that this shelter is quite reliant on where, and how you choose to configure it. You are supplying the pole and pegs for support, but it is also particularly suited for tree wells, trenches and groves of trees - giving you complete freedom to maximize the environment and the shelter together for a warm bivy. Set up as an A-frame, you are going to have one open end - that you'll want to place on the leeward side. In all the configurations we have tried, the ParaTarp has proven to be extremely windproof.
Click here for instructions on setup without a Peg and Pole Kit.
Please note: this shelter is stripped of all amenities to keep weight and bulk to a minimum. It does NOT include poles, pegs, mosquito netting or zippered doors. Need something a bit more decked out? Check out our ParaTipi - same exceptional fabric for strength to weight ratio, packs up small.
Need something bigger?
Check out our new SuperTarp. Same ultralight, ultra-large concept, great features and compact size, but with a bigger footprint - enough room for two hunters and gear!
Price: 174.00 |
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