tarps 101
Choosing the Right Camping Tarp Shelter:
The Minifly, Thunderfly and Mountainfly are 3 different variations of the same tarp design. The design incorporates unique small door flaps, a split beak of sorts, these door flaps provide a wind and weather block to the normally open and exposed ends of the tarp. Coverage is concentrated right up near the top where it’s needed to protect the ends of your hammock. In nice weather simply fold the door flaps back and clip them out of the way when they aren’t needed.
The Superfly is another of our most popular models, it is a large tarp with full length doors. It is considered a winter tarp and provides maximum coverage.
The Cloudburst is our 11’x10′ rectangle designed as a solid 3-season tarp for the Ridgerunner hammock, it’s panel pulls are spaced farther apart to correspond to the spreader bars of the RR. Â Unlike the MJ and Superfly and Thunderfly, it features straight cut sides. The lack of a curve on the bottom edge and the rectangular shape gives this hammock rain fly a good bit more coverage over the Ridgerunner than the MJ does, especially at the ends. The Cloudburst can be used with any of our hammock models, and is door-kit compatible.
The Mamajamba is our old school hammock Hex tarp.
Seam sealing:
Our hammock rain flies incorporate a polyester binding on the ridgeseam so the ridge does not need to be sealed, if your tarp has panel pulls you will want to follow the seam seal instructions for sealing the panel pulls. See our video section for our seam sealing tutorial.
