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Old 06-26-20, 11:19 PM
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Originally Posted by cyccommute
I would never carry my tent with my sleeping bag. I’ve had many mornings where my tent is wet from either dew (doesn’t happen all that often in Colorado) or rain. It’s not always possible to wait for the tent to dry before having to leave in the morning so the tent may get packed wet. Drying a tent at the next campsite is mostly trivial. Drying a sleeping bag would be very difficult.
Of course and if the tent is that wet I can easily move the bag to the saddlebag, but that is not a common outcome so it spends most of its time upfront.
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