Light Camping Tent

Lightweight Two Person Tents For Backpacking

A 2 person tent that has the label "ultralight" doesn't always mean that The problem is, people don't know what "lightweight" really means for a tent and so assume Jonsky is a writer for Hiking-Camping-World.com.

can you use a backpacking tent for camping multiple nights in a campground?

backpacking tents seem generally cheaper and lighter weight, but would they work well for camping in general? i want a tent i can camp in but also use for backpacking if need be i dont mean if im allowed to, just if it would work and hold up alright why are they split anyways? isnt a backpacking tent just a lighter camping tent?

none of the campgrounds I ever heard would care if you slept on the ground without a tent at all as long as you weren't naked

Backpacking and Camping Tent Selection

These tents can deal with moderate rain, light winds, and cooler evenings. 3 season tents are a very good basic shelter for most camping and

What is a good product for lighting the inside of a camping tent?

I've tried using battery-powered lanterns but they don't give off very even light. Other than that I've only seen one tent light from Coleman that doesn't seem much better. Thanks for any good tips.

I like the coleman magnetic tent lights. Stick them where you want them. But if that's the one you already don't like then never mind. But the battery powered box fan is great.

REI Gear & Apparel Announces Spring 2012 Line

The flash packs are available in three pack sizes (small, medium, large) and feature an ultra-light torso-fit adjustment system to allow for customization and comfort. REI has refreshed its Quarter Dome Tent series and unveils the completely redesigned.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using a tarp instead of a tent for camping?

My dad and I go backpacking a lot and while we were hiking a section of the Pacific Crest Trail we met some other hikers who were using a tarp for a shelter, instead of the usual tent. Using a tarp is not only lighter than a tent, but it is larger and easy to set up. We've been wondering if maybe using a tarp would be better.

Ultralight backpackers such as Ray Jardine have revolutionized backpacking with the popularization of using sil-nylon tarps instead of tents. Tarps provide ventilation which tents do not, thus reducing condensation, which dampens everything inside your tent, especially your clothing and the insulation of your sleeping system, which, especially on long trips, will leave your gear heavier and colder every day, especially during inclement weather. Tarps are lighter and offer more coverage as you've already mentioned. Tarps require no poles and can be pitched between two trees or using two branches or a combination of the two. And tarps are actually stronger than tents by weight, contrary to ignorant assumptions, because they can be pitched low into high winds, and ideally have multiple guy lines that can be staked or tied out. And there are no poles to bend or break. It's utterly laughable for anyone to state that tent poles are stronger than a couple of stout poles found in the woods: You're doing it wrong. A couple years ago I sewed my own tarp and net tent, which hangs underneath the tarp as protection from mosquitoes, and replaces the need for a ground cloth, using Ray Jardine's tarp and net tent kit and Tarp Book, which includes all the instructions you need. Since then my wife, daughter and I have successfully and comfortably camped under our tarp tent inside our net tent several times in the Sierras, strangely often in high winds. I have had a corner stake pull out during the night but on our last trip to Winnemucca Lake in Mokelumne Wilderness the winds were just as strong but the tarp required no adjustment during the night. My tarp is 17.6 ounces with its stow-bag. 8 anodized aluminum stakes plus stow-bag weighs 4.5 oz. And the net tent its stow-bag weigh 11.9 oz. For a total of 2 lbs, 2 oz. for a shelter for 2 1/2, half the weight of the 2 man REI Quarter Dome with stakes. Like I said, no ground sheet needed because the net tent has a sil-nylon floor which hasn't shown much sign of wear. We haven't had too much rain yet, but after sewing and seam sealing my tarp I set it up in the backyard and rigged up a sprinkler to test it and I have no doubts I'd stay dry and comfortable in any weather short of a blizzard. Of course tarps are three-season use only and in winter you'd want a single wall tent but why suffer the other three seasons because you can't afford two tents when your second tent can be an inexpensive tarp. You can read about Ray Jardine's 2009 through-hike of the Appalachian Trail where he evaluates the performance of his own tarp and net tent here: Before Ray designed his net tent he used the same tarp but to protect against swarms of mosquitoes he wore a set of uncoated nylon wind-shirt and wind-pants to bed along with homemade nylon mittens and of course a head net. The wind-pants and wind-shirt are dual use of course, keeping you warmer in the wind and drier in light rain while repelling mosquitoes. Everyone in my family has a set of wind-pants, windbreaker and mosquito head net because you can't stay in the net tent forever, and I've gone without it, sleeping with mosquitoes buzzing around my head net in the evening, and would anyway to save weight, but my family likes the comfort of the net tent. Of course if you don't want to sew your own sil-nylon tarp with "beaks" and other features you can buy plain square tarps of various materials and weights from coated nylon to sil-nylon. I used the $60 Campmor Sil-Nylon Tarp before Ray started making his kits but it's not the best, which is sewing your own. Here's another article on the subject: If you're planning to camp above treeline it's a simple matter to pick up a couple of sticks along the way and keep or discard them as needed. Better than carrying poles ALL the time. They also make tarp poles for the uninitiated. Anyone who's sewn their own tent, sleeping quilts and backpacks for themselves and their family and used them successfully while backpacking solo and with a child from age four to six, all over the Sierra in all kinds of weather , please stand up, otherwise you don't have a leg to stand on nor any right to tell me what I've said isn't true and what I've written doesn't work. If you don't know how to pitch your tarp in the wind or don't have the wherewithal to move your camp to somewhere more sheltered if the weather becomes unbearable you don't belong in the wilderness.

Through re-enactor, Gen. Robert E. Lee rises again - The Virginian

A light rain began falling on the campground. A fellow re-enactor, Buddy Clarke, rode up on a bicycle and accepted a chair under the fly. This is what Carpenter likes best about re-enactments: the camaraderie. Thunder rolled, and lightning flashed.

How to darken a camping tent?

My boyfriend and I got a new tent because in 9 days we're going on a weekend camping trip. Neither of us sleep very well in places that aren't dark. The tent we purchased is a Coleman Weathermaster 6 and it is beige and tan, very light colors. I am wondering if anyone might have any ideas how we might make the part we're sleeping in darker. I want to darken it for the morning, I'm not worried about it being dark at night, lol.

Don't paint it! The only stuff to put on a Coleman is new waterproofing and with decent care it'll be a lot of years before it needs that. I've got 3 Colemans for different uses, all years old. Still geat. For daytime darkening and helping to get rid of an unwanted shadow theatre for passers by when the tent is brighter inside than out, curtains are easy to make for a tent. You can get dark-coloured material,very lightweight and folds very small, from loads of places. Makes good curtains.Market stalls are often a good source. Small pieces of sticky-back Velcro on the tent and the curtain fix it easy, or put up a line and fix the curtain with pegs. A line both sides lets you have two sides and a roof covered with one piece of material by just hanging the material over them, no fixing required. Like an Arabian Nights tent. Posh curtains inside. Nice.