New Member Tent Advice

[Spud]

Dammit, now I want a Quarter Pounder with Cheese...

at this time of day   , surely a sausage and egg mcmuffin would hit the right spot  

Quarter pounder with cheese, breakfast of champions! 

[RedLeader]

Nothing worse than hitting MickeyDs on the way to the hills and finding out it's still bloody muffin time. Get the grill on, this man wants meat and chips!

Dammit, now I want a Quarter Pounder with Cheese...

at this time of day   , surely a sausage and egg mcmuffin would hit the right spot  

Quarter pounder with cheese, breakfast of champions! 

[LennyJ1]

Hendy, I have the Solo. it is a great tent for a quick overnighter but would recommend having a waterprood bag to peg down outside to put in you extra kit as not alot of room inside.

[playford]

thats my real issue tbh, id like one with a bit of a porch to throw gear into, or where you can get out of the wind to get a brew on if the weathers bad.

[RedLeader]

Here's a Vango Tempest 200 for £85 + £5 p&p which is a bit of a bargain. It has a porch, reasonable headroom and weighs 2.5kg.
http://www.theoutdoorshop.com/showPart.asp?part=PN70203

[playford]

thats perfect and literally an exact copy shapewise of my old tent, right down to weight.

I dunno if i can go £90 straight off though, just discovered my craghoppers rucksack was thrown out of my folks, so thats another thing to buy.

[Kayakgirl]

http://www.surfmountain.com/EmailPreview.aspx?EmailID=49

Surf Mountain have a 25% off all Vango gear. You might get a bargain there.

[surfnscenic]

For me the debate on tent weight v comfort comes down on the comfort side. 

The Gelert Solo is light and compact but there isn't much room for kit, it's not practical to cook in and it's difficult, if at all possible to sit up in.  I know ideally it would be great to be able to sit outside and only go in the tent when it's time for bo bo's but bearing in mind our 4-season per day climate then this might not be always possible.

I also have a Vango Spectre 300 two person tent which is slightly heavier but in which last week at Shelter Stone during rain and midge attack I was able to cook, sit up eat/read and have room for all my kit.  With two people the same is really no bother.

If you have time and patience then try before you buy.  If you can get out to an NI-Wild meet then there might be enough range of tents for you to trial.

[Hendy]

I'm used to storing kit out of the tent the only thing that i store inside is my boots and obviously my sleeping gear the rest goes in the rucksack and i use two raincovers one over the back and one over the straps so its totally enclosed plus anything important gets drybaged.

[playford]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220815035093&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

won the auction for this, just have to sort out postage.

Reckon should come to £45 all in hopefully.

around 3kg.

[LennyJ1]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220815035093&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

won the auction for this, just have to sort out postage.

Reckon should come to £45 all in hopefully.

around 3kg.

Nice 1, but hate to say but it says Pick up only

[playford]

Ah,

But I contacted the seller prior to the close of the auction. £9 postage. So £45 shiney nuggets all in.

paid and all, just needs some pegs that poundland have at the minute lol

With rucksack going walkies, thats a waterproof coat, stove and rucksack now to get.

[playford]

50l pro lite rucksack.

Picked this up £11 posted from argos outlet on ebay, bit annoying as I cant find my craghoppers one anywhere.

shall do to get me started.

[RedLeader]

I didn't know Argos had an outlet on eBay?

[playford]

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Argos-Outlet