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Kelty Trail Dome 6 Tent Footprint A Tent Footprint is a sheet of nylon or plastic that goes underneath your tent. It’s tailored to mirror the same shape as the floor of your tent. In olden days, we just called these things a “ground cloth.” Manufacturers make specific footprints for their tents because you want [...]

Kelty Grand Mesa 2 Tent Footprint In the early 1950′s, Dick Kelty made backpacks for his friends in the Sierra Club. Time and experience proved that hiking was more pleasurable when the hiker could carry heavy loads without shoulder pain. This was accomplished with Kelty’s ideas of a hipbelt and light weight aluminum frames. A [...]