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A little late but just noticed your post. I bought an REI footprint that looked just like the one you mention. Mine is 9'x12' and I picked it up at their parking lot sale for $19.00. It is nothing more nor less than a waterproof flat tarp, a good one if that is what you want. I took off all but the sewn-in loops and have slept under it a dozen times or more from river bottom to sub alpine, in dry summer to wet snow. On a 3 day canoe trip week before last I took it instead of a tent because it is far more compact to haul and the mosquitoes were already gone. Here's a pic from the recent canoe trip. I usually put in more of a center ridge line than shown, but it kept the heavy dew off of us, especially pitched back under heavy overhanging tree foliage.