At the end of my post about Kepler, I mentioned that it was raining a little bit when we ended the track. Usually a spot of rain doesn't bother me, and sometimes it's even quite fun.
Unfortunately for three out of the four of us, "light drizzle" turns out to be a problem when your tent isn't quite waterproof. Wesley, Forest and I basically didn't sleep for half the night after we got off the track.
At the beginning of the night it looked like the tent would hold up and stay waterproof. Water was beading up and rolling off, just as it should. But as the night continued it became clear that this was not the case. All three of us kept rolling over trying to avoid the drips, but every time we touched the tent we got wetter. Then Forest decided to sit up so that we could have a powwow, and his shirt got instantly soaked when he touched the wall.
Wesley escaped to the car, and I followed shortly thereafter. Forest toughed it out in the tent all night--"the captain goes down with the ship!"--and in the morning we woke up late, dried out, and reassessed the situation.
Conclusion: we needed another tarp.
We then optimistically set out to buy another tarp, but of course the hardware store was already closed. The plan for tonight is to have one or two people sleep in the car and one person curl up in the tarp and be sad.
Nathan Golshan would like to note that he has been perfectly dry in his own handmade tent.
We're now heading up the West Coast to check out some glaciers and Arthur's Pass. We'll try to add photos to the posts so you can see where we were.
Hoping for dry weather,
Rachel
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