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25/4/2011 at 9:49pm
Location: Bedfordshire Outfit: Tent
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HI.
As an American, who now lives in the UK and camps, I'd like to point out that these huge tents that are available here, do take a lot of guying out!.
Our first and 2nd tents, we shipped from the USA over here, when the US Postal service still did surface mail!
our Wenzel Lodge Pole goes up with 9 pegs and no guys, and a few steel poles, while our coleman Sundome only has four guys on the rain fly and four pegs on the corners, and some simple fiberglass poles...
from my experience of camping in Arkansas and Idaho, not sure that the fiberglass poles would hold up to a summer rain storm. the wind and rain are stronger than here, in my experience. Even though my Coleman is American, I wouldn't want to spend a Idaho summer storm in it!
but our huge royal havanna 6,which is British has lots of pegs, and guys and heavy steel poles. we only use it when camping for two whole weeks. but the poles weigh a lot. the whole tent poles and all weighs about 70 pounds.
but as someone else said, it is because of the weather...when camping we are just as likely to be in the tent as outside of it due to the weather. We bought a coleman canopy and attach/put it over the tent Wenzel or Coleman, to give us day space and protect us from the rain here, or occasionally the sun.
------------- the bigger the berry, sweeter the juice.
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