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08/9/2014 at 9:45am
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I always saw the Gary method as particularly suited for a lighter polyester tent with SIG, where coping with a vacuum was a real possibility.
The thought of that weight of fly hanging off one pole, then shoving the rest of the poles (of that length) up into the air just made us shudder.
We pitch ZIG off (so instantly, lighter, and no vacuum), all doors zipped closed, and with bed pods off.
We orientate the footprint as best suits the pitch, then lay the tent on it with equal overlap all round. We peg the two rear ground level corners. We insert the poles flat on the ground pinning as we go.
When all poles are in, we gather them up front to back and lift. We walk out the first section (the bedroom end) and guy backwards. We walk out the remaining sections and guy the front.
It's then up and tensioned roughly along the length and pegged at 2 corners.
We then slide in the side tensioners taking care that the end pins do not snag the mesh. The tensioners are slide out and screwed up. We then zip in the groundsheet ensuring no wrinkles then peg the two front corners.
The tent is now up and fully tensioned along the length, guyed front and back and with 4 corners pegged and the whole thing squared up.
We then fill in the pegging and guying and fit the bedrooms.
Job done 
All that said, after 20 years we're selling up and will look at safaris, statics, and cottages in future. We'll let someone else do the hard work. Chucking two bags and two bikes in the car and just going, bliss!
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Mike
My advice is worth no more than the price paid for it
Prague May/Jun 2017
Lake Annecy Aug 2017
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