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Do you know how wet it is up there? <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

Think - real rain gear <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> - real tent, <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />maybe a 2 person tent, not a solo - because you may want to put your pack inside with you and have room atleast to sit up. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

As far as how good is a bivy in Alaska summer conditions <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />- I see no one has yet used the term insane, but I'd like to go on record as offering that as a description.

Others will differ, your mileage may vary - but I have ridden a motorcycle everywhere in Alaska where theres a road (or large mud trak) and camped the whole way for 3 months and I was wet. Always wet - dry out - get wet - DO not take down with you.

The bugs will kill you without protection and though tarps offer more room and head space, few are noseeum tight. Take this threat seriously, seriously. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> take a tent, even a cheap one that has condensation problems, but has a floor and zippered no seem nets.

Oh yes - noseeum netting does NOT pass air easily and you can still die of heat with small areas of it for venting.
Jim <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />