Please explain to me why you would go camping in heavy rain with just a tarp?

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I can’t stop watching but is this manly or something?

They even got people out in snowstorms with just the tarp

I love watching this chap and his dogs doing just this. I guess it's a challenge.

Because it can give all the protection you need, is adaptable to circumstances, and is extremely lightweight.

He looks great @ConstitutionHill ! I have become strangely addicted to this on Youtube!! I would need to do it with tent, mattress etc

I think the Alaskan survival reality show on Netflix was a step too far though, having been dropped in an Alaskan rainforest with no equipment to begin with, they build camps etc with tarps then one group stole the other’s stuff and another set a rival camp’s tarp on fire!