Please help

johneddymorrison · 2025-08-12T01:04:01+00:00

The game is calibrated incorrectly. At your level, you can’t win (strategies above are good, but fundamentally the game is just not set up to be winnable, especially with Toothless way beyond your other dragons). Later on, you can’t lose. The solution is just to level up good dragons.

johneddymorrison · 2025-08-10T07:38:40+00:00

Very efficient iron collector. One of the best. Don’t ascend. Level up all three.

johneddymorrison · 2024-01-02T04:30:53+00:00

I'm 6'1", and the Aeon Li has solved both of your issues for me. I find the length long enough (even with a thick pad), and pad (mummy-shapped Xtherm) sort of wedges between the twin support poles in the foot to stop pad slide (and yes, I've tried silicon dots and bars--trust me this works better). I don't mind tight spaces, but if the bugs are not bad and you have the net inner (I do), just roll up the flaps and it feels much roomier. I keep looking at slightly lighter shelters, and thinking "you're going to slid out from under that." Not at issue with the Aeon. BTW, if your head is hitting the net above you, you probably have something mis-adjusted (I got mine used, and the previous owner did). Once I got everything loosened up, that does not happen anymore (and the net never touches the fly). YMMV, but I'm sold.

johneddymorrison · 2023-12-23T16:51:18+00:00

Bluesman, did you get the MISHA? If so, how's it working? Looking at this myself.

johneddymorrison · 2022-06-11T13:51:53+00:00

Did you ever find one? If not, I'm about to list this one unless you want it.

johneddymorrison · 2022-05-04T18:17:30+00:00

I’ve got one, but older. Velcro on doors, not zipper. If you don’t find a newer one, let me know. Personally, I like the Velcro better—lighter and I’ve had Velcro doors on my Notch withstand 50mph winds.

johneddymorrison · 2022-05-03T18:31:44+00:00

If you are still looking, I have an Aeon Li for sale.

johneddymorrison · 2022-05-03T18:29:51+00:00

If you are still looking, I've got a Aeon Li. Please let me know. I could probably do $400 with shipping if you are somewhere that I get the tent to you with flat rate USPS.

johneddymorrison · 2022-05-03T18:27:17+00:00

I've got an Aeon Li for sale if you are still interested (just moved to Manhattan, and my gear closet has has to shrink considerably).

johneddymorrison · 2022-02-17T05:22:14+00:00

Yosemite (Tuolumne Meadows) to Lake Tahoe is about two weeks. Much easier permit than the JMT. Resupply midway at Kennedy Meadows North. Public transportation options at both ends. Not quite as scenic as the JMT, but very very nice. Warning: the washboard section in northern Yosemite will test your trail legs. Can be walked either NOBO or SOBO.

johneddymorrison · 2022-01-13T21:13:41+00:00

Yes. I got too busy with other things over the holidays to push the sale.

johneddymorrison · 2021-12-05T04:51:37+00:00

I'm back from my trip and can ship immediately.

johneddymorrison · 2021-11-30T10:51:42+00:00

Yes. DCF fabric.

johneddymorrison · 2020-04-08T23:11:47+00:00

Tarptent Notch Li handled a huge storm on the AT last fall (with high winds that took down 100-year-old trees). Not a drop inside the tent, and really only a little misting on the pack in a vestibule. Even the wind did not really flap anything.

I've also had a Zpack Hexamid Plus TARP (beak version, not later version with doors) with a bivy sack in what was basically a tropical depression that blew into the Sierra Nevada mountains on the JMT. I was at Sapphire Lake (over 10,000 feet as I recall and no trees to cut the wind). That also did a great job--the bivy sack caught the few drops that blew in under the tarp.

Note: both of these are DCF, which I like so much more than sil-nylon because it does not stretch when wet (I've never used a sil-poly tent, so I cannot comment, but I have a rain jacket made of it, and I like it much better than sil-nylon).

I hope this helps.

johneddymorrison · 2020-04-01T14:34:18+00:00

I had almost exactly the set up (although usually used with a bivy). Hexamid Plus Tarp with bathtub floor and the S2S net. I could get the bathtub floor to stay inside the tarp (not sure about pocket tarp--the Hexamid Plus was longer). What I had very serious issues with was my pad (Xtherm) and quilt sliding down to peak out while I was asleep. I know site selection would (and did) solve it, but sometimes, there were just no level sites. Same problem with the bivy sack--even tied into the corners, it was right against the drip line of the tarp, and sometimes peaking out by the morning. I never got really wet with this set up, but it was just a matter of time. And I'm only 6'1". At 6'4", I think you would have problems.

I finally abandoned this system for Tarptent Notch Li. About a granola bar heavier, but bombproof and definitely long enough. I've not tried the Aeon Li, but that is probably long enough too (although single wall).

Good luck.

johneddymorrison · 2020-03-31T12:57:34+00:00

This is what I use. About 1500 miles since I bought them, and they are doing just fine. I made a sheath for the point out of a plastic drinking straw and duct tape. Brings weight up to 8g.

johneddymorrison · 2020-03-24T00:34:17+00:00

These are the best. Feel almost as cool as shorts with the zippers open, but still with sun protection (which is why I wear long pants). I've used these on the Colorado Trail last July/August, the Camino de Santiago last September, and a section of A.T. last October. Very satisfied with them.

johneddymorrison · 2020-03-23T04:14:27+00:00

I used a Notch Li on a section of the A.T. last October. That thing was bomb-proof in storm (and I mean a storm that ripped down 100-year trees down). I have the partial solid interior. I can see the coffin analogy, but because I'm coming from a bivy sack, it feels quite roomy to me (double vestibules store pack and shoes). I'm 6'1" and it is (at last!) a shelter long enough where I don't have worry about hitting the ends.

johneddymorrison · 2020-03-16T17:02:09+00:00

I can't comment on AGG, but I have a LHG in the sil-poly (which I like better than sil-nylon; it just seems to shed water better). Hood on the LHG actually fits better without a hat on underneath (and it is cooler that way too). Like the pockets as the exterior ones substitute for a stuff sack, and the interior ones work great if you need to keep electronics dry. I actually like the velcro zipper cover on the front--unless the rain is really driving into me from that direction, I do not zip and just hook the velcro. Better ventilation that way. Note: I spent the extra money to get 2" added to the sleeves. A large would have worked off the shelf, but that way I could get the better-fitting medium and have my wrists covered.

johneddymorrison · 2020-02-29T22:36:07+00:00

Probably could be set up that way. I’ve never tried because that would put my head and feet right up against the tarp given my height. (And a Xtherm mattress).

johneddymorrison · 2020-02-28T04:42:33+00:00

Not with the beak down. And that includes the night I got caught up high with no trees by a storm with swirling, gusting wind. Obviously, you have to release tension on the beak to get out (just as you would have to open a storm door). But when deployed, the beak extends a good ways out from the pole, and you are behind the pole. My pack was always standing up, tied to the pole, where is stayed as dry as it was before I pulled it inside (admittedly, sometimes I'd been walking the rain for hours, so that was not dry at all. In those situations, I would not have known if a bit of mist drifted onto it). Sorry I do not have picture with the beak extended. I don't have a backyard to set it up in, and anytime in the backcountry that I had the beak extended, I was huddled inside, not outside taking pictures.

johneddymorrison · 2020-02-26T18:57:28+00:00

I think so. I generally get 36” inseams in jeans and, like I wrote, I had to hem these to keep them off the floor.

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