Read This Before Buying a Camping Tent!
Much has been written about purchasing camping tents.
However, there are a number of important considerations when buying camping tents that usually get overlooked.
Imagine doing all of your research, and finding a great deal on a high quality backpacking or family tent.
It sets up quick, sheds water beautifully, and ventilates well.
It was great that first summer, but since then your needs have changed.
Maybe you've started a family and now your backpacking tent is too small.
Or you've been dreaming of trekking somewhere there aren't even trails and your cabin tent is too heavy.
You get the idea.
One thing most people don't consider is how much use you will get from a high quality backpacking tent, wall tent, dome tent, etc.
Take a few minutes and think about what camping adventures you'd like to have-and not have--over the next 5 to 7 years.
With a little care, a good quality camping tent can easily last that long.
Where do you want to backpack, bicycle or paddle back into? It's a big world out there, think of the possibilities! Most people don't look far enough ahead.
I bought a $100 dome, 3+-season, 2-3 man tent when I was nineteen-many moons ago.
It weighed almost 6 pounds.
Ten years later and after scores of uses, I bequeathed it to my young nephew when I bought my next backpacking tent.
Sure by then it had been repeatedly stitched and seam sealed and some of the poles were bent somewhat, but that tent had seen the world and was still serviceable, if not pretty! If I had bought a solo tent, I would have missed out on much camaraderie and flexibility.
Any larger and dragging that thing around would have been too inconvenient.
That little bit of extra space was great to have when the weather kept me holed up inside and when hitchhiking.
I was happy to trade off the extra 16 ounces for the convenience.
When the unexpected 4 inches of snow fell in June or a howling wind storm descended at midnight out of the mountains, the sturdiness of that well-engineered little dome tent never let me down.
Nowadays, a cabin tent designed for fewer than 6 people rarely meets our needs.
Eight fits the 5 of us better.
I don't carry it far and I wish it set up a little quicker since I am a rain magnet.
If the weather looks awful, we ain't going.
There's got to be marshmallows and coffee and an air mattress or I'll be up at 2 a.
m.
We've been using that tent since my youngest was in diapers.
That tent has lasted 6 years and is like new.
Soon, the kids will learn all about backpacking from an old pro.
Good thing I still have that two man tent.
But maybe a 3 or 4 person camping tent would have been better idea...
However, there are a number of important considerations when buying camping tents that usually get overlooked.
Imagine doing all of your research, and finding a great deal on a high quality backpacking or family tent.
It sets up quick, sheds water beautifully, and ventilates well.
It was great that first summer, but since then your needs have changed.
Maybe you've started a family and now your backpacking tent is too small.
Or you've been dreaming of trekking somewhere there aren't even trails and your cabin tent is too heavy.
You get the idea.
One thing most people don't consider is how much use you will get from a high quality backpacking tent, wall tent, dome tent, etc.
Take a few minutes and think about what camping adventures you'd like to have-and not have--over the next 5 to 7 years.
With a little care, a good quality camping tent can easily last that long.
Where do you want to backpack, bicycle or paddle back into? It's a big world out there, think of the possibilities! Most people don't look far enough ahead.
I bought a $100 dome, 3+-season, 2-3 man tent when I was nineteen-many moons ago.
It weighed almost 6 pounds.
Ten years later and after scores of uses, I bequeathed it to my young nephew when I bought my next backpacking tent.
Sure by then it had been repeatedly stitched and seam sealed and some of the poles were bent somewhat, but that tent had seen the world and was still serviceable, if not pretty! If I had bought a solo tent, I would have missed out on much camaraderie and flexibility.
Any larger and dragging that thing around would have been too inconvenient.
That little bit of extra space was great to have when the weather kept me holed up inside and when hitchhiking.
I was happy to trade off the extra 16 ounces for the convenience.
When the unexpected 4 inches of snow fell in June or a howling wind storm descended at midnight out of the mountains, the sturdiness of that well-engineered little dome tent never let me down.
Nowadays, a cabin tent designed for fewer than 6 people rarely meets our needs.
Eight fits the 5 of us better.
I don't carry it far and I wish it set up a little quicker since I am a rain magnet.
If the weather looks awful, we ain't going.
There's got to be marshmallows and coffee and an air mattress or I'll be up at 2 a.
m.
We've been using that tent since my youngest was in diapers.
That tent has lasted 6 years and is like new.
Soon, the kids will learn all about backpacking from an old pro.
Good thing I still have that two man tent.
But maybe a 3 or 4 person camping tent would have been better idea...
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