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Zip or Unzipped?

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Beaverjack

06/09/2011 06:57AM

On the night before our BW trip last month, we had a zipper failure on our tent door. Much consternation and gnashing of teeth resulted, along with a mad dash back to Ely to pick up a smaller, over-priced replacement before the stores closed.

My question is this: Do you stuff your tent and sleeping bags with the zippers zipped or unzipped?

You cannot hope too much or dare too much. - R.W. Emerson

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mocha

06/09/2011 07:09AM

mostly zipped. all zippers and parts are checked after every use.

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bogwalker

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06/09/2011 07:23AM

Ditto-zipped

"When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known." Sigurd F. Olson WWJD

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ChazzTheGnome

06/09/2011 07:32AM

i leave the bottom of both doors unzipped. not sure if it really helps but it seems to let the air out faster when i roll it up so i dont get such a big balloon when i get to the end of rolling.

"Every day on this side of the dirt is a good day." ~ My Grandpa

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Beaverjack

06/09/2011 07:38AM

quote ChazzTheGnome: "i leave the bottom of both doors unzipped. not sure if it really helps but it seems to let the air out faster when i roll it up so i dont get such a big balloon when i get to the end of rolling.
"

That's what I've been doing.

You cannot hope too much or dare too much. - R.W. Emerson

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DayDreamin

06/09/2011 07:43AM

zipped
My Huba has mesh screen walls. Never have trouble getting air out.

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northallen

06/09/2011 07:44AM

Zipped. Feels safer with fewer loose ends.

One more cast... 'Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience' R.W. Emerson

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Amok

06/09/2011 07:54AM

Hahaha, I thought this was about something else *wink*

Sleeping bags zipped
Tent not zipped

Trust, but verify. The Lord will provide !!!!

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jcavenagh

06/09/2011 08:00AM

Wait...this doesn't have anything to do with prom dresses???
Bags unzipped, tent screen zipped, door and window cover I leave one zipper open to allow air out.

LNT - The road to success is always under construction. http://hikingillinois.blogspot.com/

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solotrek

06/09/2011 08:19AM

All zipped

"It is in solitude, in quiet communication with nature that we reach most deeply into truth." Sam Campbell

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nojobro

06/09/2011 08:20AM

I have no idea what we do.

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SevenofNine

06/09/2011 08:53AM

quote Amok: "Hahaha, I thought this was about something else *wink*

Sleeping bags zipped
Tent not zipped"

The opposite. :)

Sleeping bag unzipped Nice to have it open and not worry about being able to get in it when needed.

Tent zipped. Keeps the bugs out when erecting the tent.

The best part of this journey here is further knowing yourself - Alan Kay

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06/09/2011 08:57AM

quote solotrek: "
All zipped"

The purpose of the journey is not to arrive.

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BWPaddler

06/09/2011 09:46AM

quote ChazzTheGnome: "i leave the bottom of both doors unzipped. not sure if it really helps but it seems to let the air out faster when i roll it up so i dont get such a big balloon when i get to the end of rolling."

Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe. -Thoreau

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Jeriatric

06/09/2011 09:47AM

All kidding about Anthony Weiner aside.....zipped.

The business of life is the acquisition of memories. In the end that's all there is. ___Mr Carson (Downton Abby)

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BWPaddler

06/09/2011 09:47AM

Sleeping bags never zipped.

Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe. -Thoreau

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Trix

06/09/2011 09:59AM

with the tent one side zipped, the other side 1/2 zipped. Sleeping bag: 1/2 zipped as well.

C-H-A-L-L-E-N-G-E: Do not let what you cannot do, interfere with what you can do.

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TuscaroraBorealis

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06/09/2011 11:14AM

Unzipped.

For the sleeping bag I don't think it would matter to me one way or the other. Where ever it was when I exited that morning. I honestly don't give it a second thought.

The tent I leave unzipped simply for the fact that the air inside the tent can escape easier as I'm rolling it up. So it will roll up tighter.

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inspector13

06/09/2011 12:19PM

Tent unzipped to let air out for ease of folding and rolling, sleeping bag zipped for ease of rolling. Did the the zipper become crimped?

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mooseplums

06/09/2011 12:22PM

always zipped

"I am haunted by waters"~Norman Maclean "A River Runs Through It"

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snakecharmer

06/09/2011 12:51PM

Half zipped and rolled.

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after"
~ Henry David Thoreau

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MrBreeze

06/09/2011 02:19PM

We leave the bags unzipped, easier to stuff and the tent screen zipped, door partially zipped to let out hot air,
Was told to keep mine zipped to keep in the hot air, haha

I wish I were, I wish I might, I wish I was in the BWCA tonite!

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Divainthewild

06/09/2011 02:55PM

I was taught that you zip your tents before taking them down but to leave the windows open, unless there is mesh, then I zip it all up. I don't unzip until the tent is fully set up. Keeps the bugs out.

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Savage Voyageur

06/09/2011 04:07PM

All zipped up on the tent.

"So many lakes, so little time." WWJD

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OBX2Kayak

06/09/2011 04:12PM

Zipped (All politicians should learn that lesson)

"I go because it irons out the wrinkles in my soul" -- Sigurd Olson

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Beaverjack

06/09/2011 04:45PM

quote jcavenagh: "Wait...this doesn't have anything to do with prom dresses???"

Zipped like a baptist prom dress in a dry county?

You cannot hope too much or dare too much. - R.W. Emerson

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Anthony Weiner

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06/09/2011 05:25PM

unzipped

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rogerson

06/09/2011 05:56PM

lol, zipped

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." Hunter S Thompson

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kanoes

06/09/2011 05:59PM

tent...zipped, bag...doesnt matter.

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JoeWilderness

06/09/2011 07:53PM

quote Jeriatric: "All kidding about Anthony Weiner aside.....zipped."

Now that was funny!

Tent zipped for it has plenty of mesh.

Sleeping bags about 1/4 zipped. Just enough that I don't have to worry about starting a zipper after a long day on the water.

"You only have one chance at life, so make it an adventure!"

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Frenchy

06/09/2011 07:58PM

Both zipped,seems to pack up tighter.

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macbones3

06/09/2011 08:02PM

Zipped except for last 6" or so. Packs tighter and also lets air out!

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BoxofRain

06/09/2011 08:34PM

Zip protects the zipper. You won't run into as many zipper problems if you keep it zipped. Try to buy equipment with at least a #10 Zipper, bigger, stronger, faster, better. The movie "There's Something about Marry" keeps coming to mind

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BearBrown