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96 CAMPING AND WOODCRAFTTo get more head-room In a tent without walls,the Ross alpine tent (Fig. 58) is fitted over a sectionalbent frame. It has side parrels, and a doorat each end.The dimensions are 7 x 7 x 6^ ft.Fig. 58.— Ross Alpine TentSeparable Shelter Tents.— When men travelin pairs, going light, it is a good plan for each tocarry a " shelter-half," adequate to protect him ifhe should become separated from his companion, andso fitted with ridge flap and tapes that it can quicklybe attached to its mate to form a low, broad wedgetent.s^Fig' 59'— Separable Shelter TentThe old-fashioned army shelter half was merely arectangle of 73^- or 8-oz. duck, two of which, buttonedtogether, made an A-shaped roof open at both