Great photos. Looking forward to more installments of the report. HST is high on my list for next year.

Watching your style, I find myself slipping into ultra-light territory. Just got an ultralight shelter (Go-Lite was dumping all their Shangri-La 1's a week or so ago at hugely reduced prices; nest is heavy, so made a ground cloth out of Tyvek today as an alternative configuration). Now you have me pondering a Z-pack...after a few years of resisting....