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Hi There from a newbie,

I pitched my new tent up in my garden today to get a feel for ho to put it up as i am going away for a few nights next week.

I havent been camping before so i got the tent out of the bag like you would, i just cnat seem to get it back in again. it just seems to be way to big for the bag whatever i do with it.

Any suggestion/Ideas/tips on how to get a 2 man tent back into its bag successfully,

Regards

Wayne

 cant help, sorry, we have a 9 berth, not once have we managed to get it all in the bag, we purchased a big laundry bag to put the bits we could not fit in

• fold the flysheet in half
• fold any uneven ends in towards the middle to make an oblong
• fold both ends in to middle like wardrobe doors
• fold in half
• repeat with inner if this is seperate
• place inner over outer
• place poles in bag and pegs in bag
• put bags on top of inner
• roll like a swiss roll
• unroll and roll up again tighter
• put in bag
• 

I have given up trying to get tents back in bags. The outer and inners go in the bag, folded like bluebottle said, poles and pegs stay seperate.

Carol

i bought a gelert mammoth bag for my freelander...  it holds tent, inner, groundsheet, the lot, with loads of space to spare... think it cost about a tenner...

Quote: Originally posted by Roebear on 04/5/2006

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i bought a gelert mammoth bag for my freelander...  it holds tent, inner, groundsheet, the lot, with loads of space to spare... think it cost about a tenner...

 

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Where did you purchase that?

Thats sounds like it would do the job,

Could you post a picture,

Regards

Wayne10788

My Khyam Igloo has a very generously sized bag but other tents I have got are almost impossible to get back into the bag supplied. I finish up using the supplied bag for the flysheet & putting the inner & poles etc. into any old plastic bag.

If I may also ask a related question - do you pack the tent away with the zips open or closed? I once read somewhere that you should always pack it away with the zips open as to fold it tightly with the zips closed might put excessive strain on them. Any ideas? 

takes a bit of time and a lot of looking stupid rolling around on the folded tent and then again rolling around on it flattening it when it is in the bag - but we always manage to get it in eventually!!

All part of the fun!!