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10/4/2009 at 9:09pm
Location: Selby
Outfit: Mazda Bongo
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Hi and welcome to the forum.
The best piece of advice I can give you is invest in some delta pegs: http://www.deltagroundanchors.co.uk/. I have the plastic ones and they are brill. They kept my tent firmly anchored in very windy conditions last year. I use windbreaks too, but that is more to do with having dogs!
Cant comment on your tent as i have never had one.
Good luck for July, I hope you enjoy it.
B
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10/4/2009 at 10:23pm
Location: Lancashire
Outfit: Bear Lake 6. Minny 4 & Phad 2
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Hello and welcome. There are no daft questions on here (well almost none). Remember most of us have been where you are now, unless they were brought up in a camping family.
I second the endorsements of Delta Pegs, you don't need to go wild, just buy enough to do the guys on your main poles. They guy who runs it is very helpful and will tell you what you need.
As for wind breaks, from my experience if its so windy your tent is under threat your windbreak will be long gone. We rescued a couple at Barny last year that were thrashing themselves to death and risking damaging the tents.
As for which way to pitch it, on most commercial sites with a tent that size and shape you won't get any choice, as there has got to be 6 metres between you and the tent next door for fire regs (although this is enforced with varying degrees of enthusiasm) and the pitches tend to be oblong with the long sides together. If you get the choice I would pitch tail into wind, but as yours has doors in the middle this may mean you have no sheltered entrance to use.
Most of all I would advise you book a couple of nights somewhere local, if you can, to try everything out and get some confidence - you will then feel more relaxed about the main holiday.
You will tend to find that campers are generally a pretty helpful bunch and if you are struggling you will normally get help pretty quickly. A couple came out in an absolute downpour at Bala last year to help us set up as we arrived late and there was no sign of it abating so we just had to get stuck in.
Best of luck - this time next year you will have a house full of gear, a bigger car and you will start twitching when you have been in a brick building for over a fortnight.
Cheers
Alasdair
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"If nothing else works, a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through." General Melchett
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10/4/2009 at 10:34pm
Location: North Staffordshire
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Scott and family, welcome to the most addictive site on the web.
I too can't comment on the tent and, it appears, there are no reviews in the tents section. I have to admit to never having used Delta pegs, although those who have swear by them (And you can get a special UKCS discount on them). The theory is that you pitch your tent with its back to the prevailing winds. The trouble with this theory is that nobody has yet bothered to tell the wind this!! I really believe most people, myself included, will pitch our tents so we get the best view. The trouble with using windbreaks is that they are far more likely to be blown over than any tent. I believe there is little danger of a tent actually being blown away with our huge one standing up to some horrendous true gales last year. Yes, they will bend. They will creak but if they are pegged out fully and carefully they won't blow away. The worst that seems to happen is the poles breaking and the tent collapsing and, hopefully, that's unlikely with a good tent like yours. Just relax and enjoy your camping and don't forget, I've already ordered a good summer for this year following the weather we had last year!!
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