About those orange tents

Since we posted about highly visible and brightly colored tents on our blog, we've received a lot of comments. And we did some poking around. Turns out that REI and MSR only use that bright orange for rain flies on expedition/alpine tents--in other words, only on tents that are intended for use in snow. Same with Kelty. For their three-season tents, the rain flies for all three companies seem to be a nice calm grey....which is easy on the eyes. That's nice.

And as we have noted, our Tarptent is a lovely granite grey---and so are most backpacking tarps. Seems like those companies get the message.

Marmot, Big Agnes, Nemo, Black Diamond, and The North Face all use bright colors for many of their tents. Maybe they haven't actually read the Leave No Trace principles.