I have 2 tents. a 4 man and a 6 man tent. love them both.
I have eurohike Hampton 6 ( amazing)
I can't remember the name of my 4 man tent but it is brill too.
Just a single tent here.
Got a Vango Almafi 500 air tent. Used for 3 of us mostly for weekend trips but did do 2 weeks solid camping in Belgium last year.
Plenty big enough and nice easy tent to use.
I have 3, a small lightweight mountain tent 2 birth
An Atakama 5 and just last year purchased a 6 person air tent.
Not used the mountain tent in years.
The Atakama was cheap and cheerful and is still in good condition, the air tent was bought for space and ease of erecting. No one said how heavy the air tents are though :)
Current count is 5. 2 x Vango Arks the 2 man and 3 man which I use for festivals, a Coleman Gailileo plus extension which is our tent of choice for holidays (tent only for anything under 4 nights). A random 6 man which we no longer use much and our new 5m bell tent. I love tents and would have more. Current tent porn is the One Tigris Smokey Hut.
- Conway Crusader (6 berth folding camper - still sort of a tent!)
- Nigor Wickiup 6 (super-light big tent)
- Quechua Seconds selection (big pop-ups, sadly discontinued):
- Base XL (living room)
- Base 4.2 (4 Berth)
- Base 4.1 (3-4 berth different config)
- Base full (hub tent, also has inner to sleep 3-4)
- Seconds XL (smaller 3-4 berth)
- Nigor Wickiup 4 (spacious backpacking tent for 3, or workable for 4)
- Flames Creed Lanshan 2 (Chinese Ultralight 2 berth bargain favourite)
- Dan Durston / Drop Xmid 1 (great UL 1 man backpacking tent)
- Flames Creed faux-trailstar (Chinese knockoff of popular tarp shelter)
- Six Moon Designs Gatewood Cape & Serenity Nettent (ultralight poncho/tent combo)
And then a handful of old cheapy ones that I lend out to friends for festivals & whatnot when I don't trust they'll be treated well.
Seems a bit much, but they do all have their purposes, & all of them have seen use at least once in the last couple of years, (bar the Xmid which is a recent acquisition). Don't think I'll be adding any more for a while (though I always say that, and the Xmid 2p is out soon! )
I rather enjoy the fact that my biggest 'tent' weighs approximately 1000 times more than my smallest!
I have one, and that hasn't been used for camping since the 1970s. It's an old blue and orange frame tent and it normally resides up in my loft. I did get it down once in 2015 when I replaced my garden shed, and I used it to temporarily store loads of stuff out of the old shed while the new one was erected. Strangely enough it is still in remarkably good condition, or at least it was in 2015, seeing as it hadn't been out of its bag since round about 1976.
Quote: Originally posted by bazpoint on 15/2/2020
LOL, what a dangerous question...
lets see, from biggest to smallest:
- Conway Crusader (6 berth folding camper - still sort of a tent!)
- Nigor Wickiup 6 (super-light big tent)
- Quechua Seconds selection (big pop-ups, sadly discontinued):
- Base XL (living room)
- Base 4.2 (4 Berth)
- Base 4.1 (3-4 berth different config)
- Base full (hub tent, also has inner to sleep 3-4)
- Seconds XL (smaller 3-4 berth)
- Nigor Wickiup 4 (spacious backpacking tent for 3, or workable for 4)
- Flames Creed Lanshan 2 (Chinese Ultralight 2 berth bargain favourite)
- Dan Durston / Drop Xmid 1 (great UL 1 man backpacking tent)
- Flames Creed faux-trailstar (Chinese knockoff of popular tarp shelter)
- Six Moon Designs Gatewood Cape & Serenity Nettent (ultralight poncho/tent combo)
And then a handful of old cheapy ones that I lend out to friends for festivals & whatnot when I don't trust they'll be treated well.
Seems a bit much, but they do all have their purposes, & all of them have seen use at least once in the last couple of years, (bar the Xmid which is a recent acquisition). Don't think I'll be adding any more for a while (though I always say that, and the Xmid 2p is out soon! )
I rather enjoy the fact that my biggest 'tent' weighs approximately 1000 times more than my smallest!
Quote: Originally posted by Colin21 on 15/2/2020
Quite a contrast to me then Bazpoint.
I have one, and that hasn't been used for camping since the 1970s. It's an old blue and orange frame tent and it normally resides up in my loft. I did get it down once in 2015 when I replaced my garden shed, and I used it to temporarily store loads of stuff out of the old shed while the new one was erected. Strangely enough it is still in remarkably good condition, or at least it was in 2015, seeing as it hadn't been out of its bag since round about 1976.
My 2 Good Companions...very early 70s, still get used: my favourites in the right circumstances!
Ah, I like this thread, it makes our tent collection & obsession feel a little more normal!
We have:
Vango Banshee 300
Vango Ark 300 plus
Vango Force 10 mk4 (must be 30 years old, but loads of life left in it & still bright orange!)
Esvo Dutch pyramid tent (about 20 years old, but again a long life left)
Vango Solace TC airbeam
Dusky Deer 5m bell tent
Son's Eurohike pop up tent (used in the bell, as his own bedroom or as a camp out tent in his bedroom on rainy days!)
Itchy feet, and despite to get back out, under canvas.