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We are going to north devon tomorrow. Its first time we have been camping with the family.  We've been looking for a couple of years and finally bought the Outwell Vermont XL 

We are going to a campsite which has had good reviews on this website but apparently it is quite windy their at the moment.

What is the best way to put up the tent to cope with the wind? 

We have the plastic and metal pegs that came with it and we got some other plastic pegs too.

We have had it up in the back garden a couple of times

Thanks, Alan

make sure you pitch it with the back of the tent into the wind and use every guy line on the tent and keep them tight and check them regularly  

the vermont XL is a very big tent and I am not sure how it will handle the wind, fingers crossed that it stays calm for you 

Quote: Originally posted by jamen on 10/8/2008

We are going to north devon tomorrow. Its first time we have been camping with the family.  We've been looking for a couple of years and finally bought the Outwell Vermont XL 

We are going to a campsite which has had good reviews on this website but apparently it is quite windy their at the moment.

What is the best way to put up the tent to cope with the wind? 

We have the plastic and metal pegs that came with it and we got some other plastic pegs too.

We have had it up in the back garden a couple of times

Thanks, Alan

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We've just come back from a very windy few days at Stoke Barton Farm in North Devon. Unluckily for us we arrived and departed on very windy days but though it was challenging to put the tent up and take it down in the wind we did manage (with an extra pair of hands!). I think that for pitching the tent you have the advantage over us as ours pitches inner first (one major disadvantage is that you are without guys until the the fly is on and tied down which means that you need an extra person acting as a "human guy" until you're done) but yours doesn't. I'd suggest talking it through first and work to a plan of how you're going to approach it. Also make sure you keep communicating whilst you're pitching it so that you can make sure you're working together. And of course, get your guys out asap!

With regards to the pegs...we only have wire ones and we (and the tent!) survived very well. All guys were pegged with one peg at the normal 45 degrees and another across the top to take some of the strain, we also double pegged the corners of the tent and other strategic points. Guys and pegs were checked every day, but none of them shifted even though the winds were very strong at times, with gusts even stronger. The afternoon we arrived we went out and I must admit that we were half expecting the tent to be damaged when we got back but I'm glad to say it wasn't ;-)

Thanks for the info.

We are going to Stoke Barton Farm too, Mostly because of the reviews on this site.

Was the weather ok apart from the wind?

I will have to try cross pegging it sounds like a good idea.

Alan

just getting some kit together for if its windy when we go away at the end of the month, we've got the Delta pegs and Line Loks (both look really good), about to order some Clingons (just in case) but not sure which size to get (mini or large), any help would be appreciated.

Rich