As I look to get off the ground for the next trip, I've got my eyes set on the Warbonnet Superfly. This thing looks amazing as it can be configured 100 different ways. Set up with the doors close in case a storm rolls in while fishing, open the doors and rig up porch mode when at camp or sleeping to keep a nice view of your surroundings.

Last trip we had a 12x12.5 CCS tarp for camp so I feel much more comfortable with my knots and various techniques to make a tarp do what I want it to do so the steepest part of the learning curve has been achieved and I'm not worried about screwing something up and making my life miserable because I can't stay dry.

So what's the catch? Is there any reason NOT to buy this other than the cost? Is there something out there I would be better off with?

I don't have the SuperFly (yet...), but the only downsides I've seen are cost, and that you *can* go even lighter with cuben fiber for even more megabucks. It definitely looks like a solid product that a ton of people have been very happy with.

I own one and see no reason to ever change. The size and weight are perfect and a feature I like about my particular one is that all four doors can be removed via snaps. I got an early model of the superfly and prefer this to the model he makes now with the doors sewn on. You could ask Brandon to make one with snaps if you like.

Just another great feature of Warbonnet. You can customize everything by talking with Brandon.

He still makes them with removable doors, under a different name. The "Mamajamba" tarp plus sold-separately door kit for that is the same size as the SuperFly. They attach with plastic hooks and elastic cord rather than snaps though.

quote tonyyarusso: " you *can* go even lighter with cuben fiber for even more megabucks. It definitely looks like a solid product that a ton of people have been very happy with."

I like how most of the BWCA posters are not "gram weenies" because the gear is in a boat and not often on the back. That said, I borrowed a cuben tarp once. It was like sleeping under a drum skin in the rain (thunderously loud!)and the opacity was such that I found it to bright personally.

quote Hamm0cker: "

quote tonyyarusso: " you *can* go even lighter with cuben fiber for even more megabucks. It definitely looks like a solid product that a ton of people have been very happy with."

I like how most of the BWCA posters are not "gram weenies" because the gear is in a boat and not often on the back. That said, I borrowed a cuben tarp once. It was like sleeping under a drum skin in the rain (thunderously loud!)and the opacity was such that I found it to bright personally.
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Yeah, the way I see it, I'm still dropping weight. My tent is a North Face Tadpole which weighs in over 6 pounds with fly, ground cloth, stuff sack, stakes. A Blackbird XLC + Superfly with the cordage is still coming in less.

I have one of the early superfly tarps without the integrated doors, I have made a beak that acts like doors on whichever end i need it. I also have a pole mod on mine to open it up even more. I love mine.

quote Hamm0cker: "

quote tonyyarusso: "I borrowed a cuben tarp once. It was like sleeping under a drum skin in the rain (thunderously loud!)"

I have found the noise from rain is little different under a cuben fiber tarp than it is under any other tarp.

I have had a super fly for several years and really like it. I like the side pull outs and the amount of space it covers. The one thing that I wished it had was two more tie outs on each side along the bottom edge. Seems the wind is always blowing when I am up there and the four extra tie (two more on each side) would be beneficial.

tony

I love mine. I made the pole mods for it and at an extra 8 ounces is well worth it. I just ordered the xlc in multi cam so I'll probably buy another to match my new hammock.

I have had mine for four years now and love it. Being able to leave it in the snake skins and see the stars, putting into front porch mode, or staking it out in heavy down pours with the doors closed. While I never been through hail while in the woods, I have had it deployed in the back yard in a good hail storm and the pea sized hail just rolled off. I have used it in a pretty good sleet/ rain in mid May and was glad that I had the option to stake it down low and keep everything "high and dry".

Mine was a factory second that I got a little cheaper from Brandon, but other than one place that I could see a thread pulled, I have never seen anything that I think would have made it a "second". Great gear as is the blackbird.



I may do a pole mod myself this year.

Here is the superfly in the snake skins.

MountainGoat Skins

Only one trip with mine but it proved it's worth when a blowing downpour made four of us all hold onto our tarp for 45 minutes so it wouldn't blow away and rain coming in horizontal the whole time. Flooded the campsite but my Superfly with it's door closed into the wind didn't get anything wet in my hammock. I love it. Money well spent. If I'd had my old Guide Gear 12x12 that I'd used before, there is no way I could have kept my hammock dry. It's why I bought it and why I'm happy I did.

canoepaddle

I have had one for about 5 years and I do about 25 days of canoe tripping per year. I always seem to go during the windy season. Last year my under quilt blew off. I can see some ware where the edge hem has flapped against a branch but it is still in good shape. If it were gone tomorrow I would buy another.

man, those tarps are inching into my pocketbook.