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CaptainGoat
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What type of tent do you prefer? Have you been camping? Just a general tent and camping thread for fun!
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I usually pick up all season hexagonal tents with a fully draped rainfly. Even if solo camping, I’ve never been fond of the bivy systems. I like to have room for my pack. I’ve always had good luck with Kelty.
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CaptainGoat
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Yeah. It just depends on what you’re doing. Low profile dome tents are more what I like to use out here since they are more adaptable to high wind directional changes. They don’t have any flat spots to create a parachute effect. Sometimes if you’re on a mountain peak, the winds constantly zip around from different directions. If I’m only going inland with tree cover, then a traditional style tent with more headroom is fine for me.
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CaptainGoat
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Some of those canvas tents are extremely durable. Almost like mini cabins. I’ve seen a lot of them that even have the ability to be outfitted with stoves. I’m more of a backpacker guy myself, so most of the cotton tents would be way too heavy for me. I have always wanted to get one though. Seems like it would be fun if you had a large group.
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CaptainGoat
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Mine is for two people but I've been in one the same with three people and there was enough room. It is heavy. The intention is to let the bicycle carry the weight. I bought it secondhand so it needed a few minor repairs. All fixed now!
May end up buying a lighter one for su!mmer use.
May end up buying a lighter one for su!mmer use.
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Huckleberry
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Camping? You got my attention!
I like all things Coleman.
Right now my favorite tent is our 8-man Cimmaron.
I also have a Red Canyon 8-man, which is actually way
bigger than the Cimmaron, but still pretty easy to set up.
Both have kept us dry through some pretty severe rain.
Considering getting an 8 or 10-man instant tent for even easier set-up.
For years we used inflatable air mattresses,
but I'm done with those nuisances.
Recently bought a Teton XL cot and pad.
I highly recommend it.
Love that thing.
Check it out!
Huckleberry flapjacks, Jimmy Dean Sausage, and French
press coffee on one of my vintage Coleman stoves.
A creek running through one of my favorite campsites:
Huckleberry harvest!
God's good.
I like all things Coleman.
Right now my favorite tent is our 8-man Cimmaron.
I also have a Red Canyon 8-man, which is actually way
bigger than the Cimmaron, but still pretty easy to set up.
Both have kept us dry through some pretty severe rain.
Considering getting an 8 or 10-man instant tent for even easier set-up.
For years we used inflatable air mattresses,
but I'm done with those nuisances.
Recently bought a Teton XL cot and pad.
I highly recommend it.
Love that thing.
Check it out!
Huckleberry flapjacks, Jimmy Dean Sausage, and French
press coffee on one of my vintage Coleman stoves.
A creek running through one of my favorite campsites:
Huckleberry harvest!
God's good.
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CaptainGoat
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I'd go for a lightweight two man tent as you get to sit up and have room for bags in it. These days after hearing horror stories about broken dome tent poles and also knowing the old ridge tents didnt have this issue as in an emergency one can use a stick, I've found I prefer a ridge tent. When I looked to get one the only smallish one I could find about four years ago secondhand. I did want cotton duck if possible so it was ideal. I needed to mend some minor things to it. I tried camping with it in our field and had to resort to the house as I got attacked with midges. Tiny bitey flies similar to gnats! I chose the wrong spot to camp. The mesh in the tent vents didnt stop them! Since then I've obtained some of my mums broken tights so one day I will make them into vents that will attach via Velcro over the top of the other vents for such occasions! Just not made them yet.
Today in the UK the shops must have been asked by so many people for ridge tents that they are back being made. We now have a few in the tent range. Was considering a cheap lighter weight version to use when cycling. My tent is good but is heavily built so is not lightweight.
I have seen good quality one man tents on the market and they are not cheap! From what cyclists have said they prefer not to use them as there is no room for ones bags.
I guess hiking it will be less of an issue.
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Yahweh_is_gracious
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If I were in the market for a tent, I'd look into buying military surplus and pick up 2 shelter halves plus the associated stakes and poles. Carrying two halves would be quite a bit heavier than a nylon tent, but it's heavy weight canvas and built to last.
I haven't camped in many years. The last time I did anything remotely like camping was the last time I was on field exercises in the military and was bivouac with my platoon.
I haven't camped in many years. The last time I did anything remotely like camping was the last time I was on field exercises in the military and was bivouac with my platoon.
When I was a child, my family went camping every summer. Being a large family, we had what many might consider a huge canvas tent that slept at least a dozen, plus had room for gear. It was rectangular shaped, orange squash colour, and you could definitely stand up in it at any point. We could set it up and take it down pretty quickly as a team. We used a vintage Coleman stove, as Huckleberry said. Every year we would go someplace different, and move around the area a bit, maybe staying in a prime spot a little longer, camping out along the way to our destination.
It was not this fancy and was probably bigger and its sides were perpendicular to the ground and the windows not so large and structured, but it did have a porch
My favourite trip was the year we went west to Thunder Bay, up from the Toronto area through northern Ontario and west across the Great Lakes to Quetico Provincial Park. That was actually my last trip with the family, because I moved away from home right after turning eighteen the following winter. When I was around eleven or twelve we had a cottage for a couple of summers, and after that my dad bought a camping trailer, one of those ones that the ends extend into sleeping quarters when set up, that slept most of the kids when we went camping, which by then there were less of us as the older ones toddled off to university and/or got married etc... The camper slept at least six and maybe eight, cuz one or two of us would sleep on the camper floor in the center (most likely my brothers, heh). My mom and dad would sleep in the van on some kind of an air mattress, or thick folding pad, after the van seats were removed. The camping trailer was used to store and transport gear while we were in transit
Uhhh, there were no appliances in it like this one has
It was not this fancy and was probably bigger and its sides were perpendicular to the ground and the windows not so large and structured, but it did have a porch
My favourite trip was the year we went west to Thunder Bay, up from the Toronto area through northern Ontario and west across the Great Lakes to Quetico Provincial Park. That was actually my last trip with the family, because I moved away from home right after turning eighteen the following winter. When I was around eleven or twelve we had a cottage for a couple of summers, and after that my dad bought a camping trailer, one of those ones that the ends extend into sleeping quarters when set up, that slept most of the kids when we went camping, which by then there were less of us as the older ones toddled off to university and/or got married etc... The camper slept at least six and maybe eight, cuz one or two of us would sleep on the camper floor in the center (most likely my brothers, heh). My mom and dad would sleep in the van on some kind of an air mattress, or thick folding pad, after the van seats were removed. The camping trailer was used to store and transport gear while we were in transit
Uhhh, there were no appliances in it like this one has
I've been camping in the southwest of America. Give me a cabin in the woods over a waste of money over priced hotel any day. I love to travel and the experience of the outdoors in America was heaven to me. Memories . . .
Oh gosh, I hate camping. Going camping for the first, and I'm gonna hope only time in sixth grade was one of my worst experiences during my not one, but TWO years there (because different schools). The beds were as hard as a rock, there was so few things to eat there that I mostly had fries and rice for dinner, I had to sleep with three other people in cabins too small for even two people, I was very moody from all the anti-menstruation pills I took every night, and I will never go near a Flying Fox ever again (the ride, not the animal).
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CaptainGoat
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It is usually ill preparation. You can make camping as luxury or as minimal as you want. For example, if you want luxury, you could bring lots of creature comforts and also have a big roomy tent... The issue is that in certain cases if one is hiking or cycling one does not want to carry too much weight. Go by car and the luxury starts, with airbeds and big camping stoves along with larger tents, some more like mini homes.
Mind you, I do prefer a caravan if I take the car, though my caravans have seen much better days...
Finding comfy ground if one is lightweight camping via a small tent and hiking or cycling is the best plan. Find rocky ground and you will feel it! Camp near damp areas in the summer or near a pond or river and every bity fly type creature comes your way!
As you can see, to get the most from your camping experience is a matter of learning how best to adapt your needs and how to chose a good place to camp!
So dont give up the basic idea. Just plan ahead and learn from what works and what does not work!
I have to laugh. A friend borrowed my tent which is a heavily built cotton duck (Like canvas but is a tighter weave and is slightly lighter) material and when I once put it up and it poured down before I got the nylon flysheet on the top it was completely watertight... The cotton duck was so watertight the flysheet wasn't really needed. Anyway. As he is a qualified fitness instructor and has slept in these tents when he was an army Kadett and on the fitness instructor training, I assumed he would know how to put it up. He put it on his motorbike and off he went.
It took a couple of weeks for my tent to return as he said it was wet and he had a wet night. I was puzzled..... Turns out as he had marshalling duties, he didnt have time to put it up until midnight (A bad move trying to find things in the dark!) and he couldn't get the poles to stay up. He slept with only one end erected. It rained and the rain was directed into the tent!
I did erect it when I had it back to test it. All seems good. No holes. No visible reason for water to come in. Poor chap!
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How come your avatar PIC and the camping PIC are both on a slope? Looks like you have had fun camping trips!