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A miniature tent that's just large enough for your head. You’ve ridden to a race weekend (Road America AMA, Isle of Man TT, etc...) and you travel light. As usual, there are no hotel rooms within fifty miles and the campgrounds are full...so you head to ‘Nicaragua’ a piece o’ swampland that an enterprising farmer turns into an impromptu campground every year. Now, you find your friends and become very completely baked or drunk. It ‘s an annual tradition...and so is the cold, wet rain which falls later. Head Tent to the rescue! The Head Tent is an easy-to-set-up (...even while impaired) tensioned catenary pentagonal design and is large enough to completely protect just your head and neck. Stakeless Easton wands allows it to be set up wherever you happen to fall down. The siliconized 1.4 oz ripstip fabric is naturally breathable and luminesces slightly (so less people will trip over you). The single wall Head Tent is compact to carry and makes things much easier when you need to go out and pee in the middle of the night. Be prepared to sleep anywhere. You know you need this. 20”x 18” x 18”, 13 oz.

SuperTroll
10:54:20 AM
6/25/09

scary thing is that you KNOW people have tried this. i recall reading about how people speed hiked the JMT trying to eat (drink) nothing but safflower oil in a jug because it was dense in calories.
Yogisan
11:21:26 AM
6/25/09

I'm sold, I have got to get me one of those.
nemster
11:22:12 AM
6/25/09

If he were a real ultralighter he would ditch that heavy free standing head tent and get a Cuben Fiber Head Tarp.
Mocs123
11:43:02 AM
6/25/09

you all missed the bottle of vodka under his arm...

Hey Mocs you joining us in the smokies?

'32oz
32ozgatorade
12:06:25 PM
6/25/09

32oz...I saw that and the case on the left.

Does it come with a bottom access in order to put it on as a hands free umbrella. Then you can look out the door.
nemster
12:50:01 PM
6/25/09

I am just wondering at what Target did they rip that thing off from... that is histerical..

'32oz
32ozgatorade
12:57:18 PM
6/25/09

Somewhere in the campground the Taco Bell Chihuaha is saying<'That steenkin drunk he take my teent."
theXL400
1:04:54 PM
6/25/09

My father in law would take a case of beer into the woods, drink the beer and use the empty case as a head tent. He's half Indian (feather, not dot), though, so even when home he sleeps on the ground outside his trailer half the time.
Mutt
1:11:49 PM
6/25/09

I wonder if it has 2 doors, that way 2 could use, one on each side.
ChuckD
2:16:43 PM
6/25/09

Looks like it has plenty of head room.
conk
2:17:54 PM
6/25/09

I am just wondering at what Target did they rip that thing off from... that is histerical..

'32oz”
32ozgatorade
2:57:18 PM
6/25/09

LOL, I forgot out their little mini tents.
dayhiker
2:22:35 PM
6/25/09

I'm impressed with ST's writeup.

13 oz though? My tarptent weighs 20.
dayhiker
2:23:47 PM
6/25/09

I was thainkin' what Sam's he ripped it off of, hehe.

Major LOL at Mutt "(feather, not dot)"!!! I'm gonna steal that and use it sometimes, that's funny.
naked ape
8:36:24 PM
6/25/09

Looks like something you would see at Trail Days.
mildbill
8:45:45 PM
6/25/09

wtf they couldn't figure out how to do it with less than 3 poles?

Looks like it has a guy out loop on the side though...3 pole stability and guy outs...must be the 4 season model.
meathead
7:40:45 AM
6/26/09

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