Tent Thoughts
I'm posting this here in the General RVing forum rather than the tenting forum because I'd like some input from other RVrs on using a tent for additional sleeping space. For several years we owned a ...
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Naio wrote:
Goodness, I have camped for months at a time in $30 tents. I don't know why you would spend more. Just get a dome tent.
Took my 5th grader up into the mountains for their school's Outdoor Education week. He wanted to bring the Quickie Popup Cheap Orange tent. But I also brought along the Kelty, just in case.
The cheap tent - which works fine in the backyard - collapsed with the first wind before the thunderstorm.
I had about 10 minutes to setup the Kelty 4 man.
The storm hit and the entire class took refuge in the shelter.
My son, has some special - um - "gifts" and insisted he was going to sleep in the tent. So...
We did.
While the ?sensible? kids slept crammed in the shelter, we were warm, dry and out of the wind in our good tent.
Ok - most folks would have high-tailed it inside before the storm. But I kept thinking about what would have happened had we been in the cheapie tent and the front had hit about 2am. We'd have been soaked and chilled to the bone.
"Cry once" - is my philosophy.
We've got two Kelty tents now - that 4 man and an 8 man.
Plus - we all have a memory that we'll never forget.
His classmates still talk about that week he slept outside in the storm.
