I didn’t think I’d be writing anything about next years UKGE so soon. In my mind the next post was months away in early 2025.

But here I am with another brief post.

I had been thinking that for the camping experience next year I’d use my tarp configured as a “tarp tent” using a poncho as a vestibule. The inspiration for this was the YouTube video below.

However I made the mistake of looking on the Alpkit website and seeing they had a sale on!

I had liked the look of the Tarpstar pyramid range of tents they did. I nearly pulled the trigger on the two person Tarpstar 2. However I ended up going for the single person Tarpstar 1.

They both have the identical outer. It’s the inner where they differ. In the two person Tarpstar 2 the inner takes up all the space. However this means getting in and out of the Tarpstar opens the inside to the elements, such as rain. Which is equally true when it comes to cooking in bad weather too.

Whereas on the Tarpstar 1 the inner only takes up half of the inside, leaving you with a pretty large vestibule to stash gear, cook in bad weather etc.

So as a single person you have to decide what’s more important that inner with the larger living space or having that vestibule.

For me it’s that vestibule. Being able to stash the camp chair away during the day, cool box, etc was more important.

So that’s why I pulled the trigger on the Tarpstar 1.

I’ve “chosen” a campsite to book. Sadly not able to book the UKGE dates yet.