Ellicott Rock Wilderness Loop

**CeeVee** · 10-03-2014, 14:40

Who me? Never!

**CeeVee** · 10-05-2014, 06:28

Sunday morning. Weather Channel predicts rain for Highlands NC and Walhalla SC Tuesday 60 % then Thursday 80%.
Boo!
Well my Packa will get a good try out.

**CeeVee** · 10-09-2014, 18:49

In Walhalla Motel. Pretty nice actually. And it's raining like a hurricane here! Very glad I'm off the trail. Tuesday night rained 10:30 till 3:00. Concluded I need a better fly. Cloudburst tarp plus one grizz beak kept me plus most gear dry. Helinox chair got soaked. Some water got into pack. And camping by the Chatooga was damp until mid morning Wednesday.

**grannypat** · 10-09-2014, 19:58

I don't think you need a better tarp, just a bigger tarp.

**CeeVee** · 10-09-2014, 22:15

Your right

**dakotaross** · 10-10-2014, 18:58

Originally Posted by grannypat

I don't think you need a better tarp, just a bigger tarp.

Wait, bigger than a Cloudburst?

Sounds like fun CV, what was your mileage like?

**CeeVee** · 10-10-2014, 20:00

'Bout 21 over three days. Maybe I'm misled but isn't the Superfly tarp the size of a Cloudburst plus doors and the pullout are not placed for the Ridgerunner spreader bars? If memory serves Warbonnet can move the tie outs on a Superfly for a Ridgerunner.

**Dedicated Hanger** · 10-10-2014, 20:53

CeeVee, did you find that moving camp every day in the rain to a different spot get everything in your pack wet? My wife and I did two camping trips on the Chattooga this summer. It rained very hard several of those days and nights. We stayed dry by putting up a tarp to have a place to cook and congregate. During the days we went hiking in the rain and always came back to a dry camp. It made for two very pleasant trips. I would not hesitate to go back again in the rain.

**CeeVee** · 10-11-2014, 06:32

The rationale for me to get a tarp with doors, the superfly, is to get all my gear under and have a dry seat and change of clothes for the night. When I was in the hammock staring at my toes I realized the tarp was too open there. So I got up to fit the one griz beak I carried along on that end worked but apparently I did not notice that it exposed the Helinox chair. Also I didn't do a full job of covering the pack so got some rain in there as well.
Had the rain come and gone that would have one thing but it started at 10:30 lasted until 2 ish then lingered into the mid morning with thick mist and dripping off the trees. By then I was climbing up the switch backs and never noticed when it actually cleared.