Originally Posted by
DanglingModifier
What you've described matches about 90% of my current main gear and accessories.
You haven't mentioned where you'll be going and what the weather might be like there. If your pad is a standard 20" tenting width, or the slightly wider 24", and you move around at night then you could definitely have some cold spots. Stuffing some extra clothing around yourself can help, as can bundling up before bed. Your bottom insulation is definitely your weakest and fiddliest link in that setup depending on the temps at night. The DL hammock helps reduce pad movement, but they still have a tendency to squirm out from under you at night.
As OutandBack suggested, be sure to try it outside near home before you get out on the trail. You might find upgrading or supplementing that bottom insulation to be less of a luxury than a must-have.
A couple other thoughts:
1. When shopping for the Dutchware consider getting 4 Tato Gear Tarp Door Hooks and mini cord locks. Those in conjunction with shock cord guy lines on your doors and small prusik loops on your corner tie-outs of your SF (for the opposing door to hook to) mean no need for door stakes when battening down in storm mode. Another prusik on the SF side pull-out guy line allows the doors to be pulled back when open or porch mode. Pretty much you'll never really need a dedicated stake per door flap.
2. Because of item 1 above, 12 stakes is probably overkill. I bring 10 and have only rarely used all of them. 6-8 is the norm I use assuming there are no other suitable guy line anchors nearby (rocks, trees). You can also often share a stake on one side or the other between the tarp and WBBB bug net tie-out.
3. MountainGoat's snake skins are awesome. They do such a good job of packing things up that I leave all my guy lines attached to my SF tarp with no tangling during packing/unpacking. The only thing that tended to tangle were the longer side pull-out guy lines. To fix that I sewed a couple really small drawcord pouches out of bug netting that are permanently attached to my side pull out guy line. I then stuff the long tangle prone side pull out lines into their own pouches before packing everything up into the snake skins.
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