Originally Posted By lori
Originally Posted By Howie
I like tarps but the lack of bug protection can be an issue. Also, tarps are much more fiddley to set up.

As a kid I didn't give a fig about bugs - in fact, finding the big gnarly bugs under rocks was kind of cool. I was probably the most mosquito bitten girl in the wilderness but I didn't care about that either.


Yeah, well, Howie's in kamloops - and where I am up here as well there's nothing that'll turn a kid off of backpacking quicker than an inablility to escape from the vicious rocky mountain hordes... There are times it isn't going to matter but a lot of times when if very much will..

Lots of places I'd take kids with just a tarp. but lots that I wouldn't. and it would depend on the kid.
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