been strugling with this its a new camera will try again in a feew days on shift again tomorrow ANYONE intrested in buying half a golite floor i may buy one and cut it in half as i only want that much can get one delivered for £35. not sure if i will buy one yet but just asking any way
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.jpg) Rich W Uttings outdoors still have the inners at £69
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Never, NEVER would have guessed so many Brits were so into the GoLite Shangri La! Who'd a thunk it? And why??  I mean, it's not innovative, not cheap and requires add-ons to make it complete. Personally I'd have purchased a TarpTent "Rainshadow 2" if I'd wanted a single wall, 3 person tent. By the time you add all the Shangri La options and costs you're waaay over the weight and cost of a TT Rainshadow 2. But then, Go-Lite is a U.S. company, so keep on buying guys...
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.JPG) Eric I have a Hex For me, one reason it's attractive is because it needs add ons! i.e. it's modular . Golite products are available 'off the shelf' here in the UK - Tarptents aren't, so quite rare. As a basic shelter, it's pretty light for it's size - without using Ultralight fabric. Easily carried by one, it gives an enormous amount of totally enclosed space. It's a '4season' tarp - gives pretty good rain and wind protection. (though apparently the SL3's need sealing). It's got plenty of headroom - can get a few folks sitting inside if you're feeling sociable. It's 'roundness' or tipi shape has something special about it. The fact that Golite don't make a proper inner tent for it is mystifying to me. But it's fun playing around with ideas for it. I would agree that the full nest is relatively heavy for just a mesh innertent, but you can sleep 3 in it if you incline the pole to one side I use it with my wife and 11year old on the hills here (where you may not be aware that - the treeline is around 1500 feet and it's often windy '3 season' weather even in high summer )
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Peter - I bought a floor form Uttings acouple of weeks back -I'm sharing with DW and successfully bisected it on Saturday. Do you not have microsoft office - picture manager? easy enough to reduce photos on that.
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Rich W Uttings outdoors still have the inners at £69 Hi, thanks, but it was the outer that was £77.
Bargain!
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 I made a light (30 grs), flexible and fool proof thingy with no hard parts, to connect two trekking poles to replace the original pole. I took a length of nylon webbing (55 cm) and sewed on either end and opposite to each other a cup to fit the tip of a trekking pole. Next I sewed on either end , again opposite to each other an other length of webbing (aprox 45 cm) that bind the poles firmly together, and sewed some peaces of velcro on the right spots. Works fine and costs me nothing at all, because I just recycled some old stuff.
Pictures:
http://woodlife.ning.com/forum/topics/golite-shangrila-3
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Tom thanks for that - I'd be interested to see it, but I think we may have to be members of woodlife to see the picture link - is there any way you can post it here using the 'tree' on the toolbar here?
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 eric, what mole said. it just has so much room inside. it may be a bit heavier and more expensive all in than some other options but there is sooooo much room inside that you would struggle to equal pyramid tents are a boon to those of use who find sleeping in a coffin of a "normal" tent a bit claustrophobic. did i mention the amount of space?
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@ Mole
Hope this works:
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If not please explain how to upload pics.
No, didn't.
I put them in an album:
Gallery/Toms pics
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Thanks Tom That looks neat - I will have a go at making one - I have just used string with loops and velcro back to back straps - but this looks a faster setup time. If anyone can't see the 'cup' at each end, I think it's made by turning the end of the webbing by 90 degrees and stitching the end to the side a little way back up the webbing - making aslightly tapered open ended conical 'cup' to seat the pole tip. (I had a look at the much bigger pictures on the Woodlife' forum - I had forgotten I was already a member there last year sometime! - but I hadn't ever used it again - Interesting site.) (To upload photos to a thread, can use the 'Tree' icon in the toolbar where you post messages) I made a light (30 grs), flexible and fool proof thingy with no hard parts, to connect two trekking poles to replace the original pole. I took a length of nylon webbing (55 cm) and sewed on either end and opposite to each other a cup to fit the tip of a trekking pole. Next I sewed on either end , again opposite to each other an other length of webbing (aprox 45 cm) that bind the poles firmly together, and sewed some peaces of velcro on the right spots. Works fine and costs me nothing at all, because I just recycled some old stuff. Pictures: http://woodlife.ning.com/forum/topics/golite-shangrila-3
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 ... it was the outer that was £77.
Where! Come on, spill the beans! 
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Now I understand why I could not upload pics and did not understand the explanation: I used Safari on Mac first. That did not display the tool bar. Now I tried Firefox, wich does. So Mac users: Firefox does the trick. 
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finally the fhotos as promised,not pretty but looks workable looking for something to stop pole sinking in wet ground,screw on top off jar off hot chocolate looks like it will do the job nice weight too only 12 gram.plan to get out possibly this weekend or in next two weeks
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... So Mac users: Firefox does the trick. Yep. The site isn't international standards compliant. I've moaned about it, but I think the attitude is one of 'Mac users get a better computing experience than Windoze users, so let's stick a fly in the interweb ointment'!
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... it was the outer that was £77.
Where! Come on, spill the beans!
It was Outdoorswarehouse but they sold out just as I was going to buy the last one. 
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 The Akto inner looks perfect Peter! I wondered for a while if it was possible to use the inner from a cheaper tent like the older Solar or Coleman Viper or similar.
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It was Outdoorswarehouse but they sold out just as I was going to buy the last one. Bugrit
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 An MLD Bug Bivvy or a sheet of Polycro and a biv may well be lighter.....as comfy ? Depends when and where I guess; I see the above as a good shoulder-season (MLD Bug Biv) combination for about a 1000g thing - spacious... Cos I already have one of course... a Laser Photon with 'real' pegs would weigh less...£250 less...but not...for me (at the mo)...
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any news yet on the half nests that bob c was trying to sort
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