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30-09-2010, 01:07 PM
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If it is just for shelter a little beach shelter would probably do, £13 Go Outdoors. Curious? can you pop up a tent anywhere ie. National park land, or National Trust land? |
30-09-2010, 01:21 PM
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Originally Posted by brendaward  . Curious? can you pop up a tent anywhere ie. National park land, or National Trust land? | No - In england and wales (scottish law is different) you can't legally camp anywhere without the permission of the landowner (and nearly all land is owned or managed by someone). However that said there is an established tradition of wild camping in wild areas (generally above the mountain wall) and providing you are only there for one night and dont leave any mess most land owners dont care - however its important to understand that you are not there by rioght so if they do care they can ask you to move on if they wish.
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30-09-2010, 02:18 PM
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It's for shelter but I want to be able to cope in inclement weather. I'm not planning to camp on Ben Nevis but I want to be able to use it in, say, November without losing it to a gust of wind. |
30-09-2010, 02:51 PM
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30-09-2010, 03:14 PM
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Originally Posted by SpikyPhasmid | I had one of these and most disappointed in it, the fiberglass poles frayed at the ferrule end. I think these tents are a cheap sense of economy, but some people think there are great.
I have a Vango Banshee 300, which maybe a little heavy at 2.6kg. However, it does have a sister tent Vango Banshee 200 Tent - Tents | Camping Tents, which for a few quid more and loads more room, it's not a bad price and much better poles. Avoid fibreglass, I've had them and in the winter, there are just no good. |
30-09-2010, 03:17 PM
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Originally Posted by SpikyPhasmid | Andrew (boddie) has the Robens light rock which isnt quite the same as the one you put above but went up very easily and stood up well to inclement weather - the times he and I camped on wab meets
That said we were travelling by mercedes C class so I cant comment on its suitability as a backpacking tent - except to say that you need one thats as light as possible.
Ive got one of these http://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/bedrock-p150851 which is pretty light - tho i sometimes leave the inner at home to make it lighter still, only trouble is that being one pole it doesnt stand up terribly well to high winds
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30-09-2010, 03:24 PM
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Not found any Vango options? The boys have had Gelert for a couple of years and we've only had one split pole (fibreglass) which a bit of tape and binding sorted out so while relatively cheap and cheerful they seem to be holding up.
They're using them for Duke of Edinburgh silver this year having also used them for bronze last year and at least 4 family camps a year, one of which is on an exposed Atlantic coast camp site.
Dearly beloved does at least one wild camp on Dartmoor each year as part of a course she teaches on. This year she bought back a new one person (probably they spec. it as two) Vango and the leap in quality was immediately obvious. It had alloy poles incidentally... She carried it on an arduous 2-day exped on Dartmoor along with the rest of her kit so I guess it isnt that heavy, as she is slightly built.
Let us know how you get on.
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30-09-2010, 03:27 PM
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Originally Posted by foxy mars I had one of these and most disappointed in it, the fiberglass poles frayed at the ferrule end. I think these tents are a cheap sense of economy, but some people think there are great.
I have a Vango Banshee 300, which maybe a little heavy at 2.6kg. However, it does have a sister tent Vango Banshee 200 Tent - Tents | Camping Tents, which for a few quid more and loads more room, it's not a bad price and much better poles. Avoid fibreglass, I've had them and in the winter, there are just no good. | I'm pretty sure that's the one.
Edited to add: for £70 the Vango is definately the one I would go for.
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30-09-2010, 03:35 PM
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The one thinig putting me off Vango is that they don't seem to have any one-man tents and there's only one of me. I'm only 5'1". However, if they claim their 1 man's are 2...
Eeyore, the Bedrock you posted is the same make as the Kraz one I was looking at. Interesting. | | | |
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