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just came back from 2 weeks in France, we had only put the tent up once before and that was a year ago just after we bought it.

The best way we found was:

• peg out corners of inner tent, this provides stability later on
• slide in the green, yellow and red poles through the inner tent sleeves
• layout all of the legs around the tent
• attach the legs to green and yellow poles on both sides of the tent but leaving them laying on the ground, (the tent should look a bit like a flattened spider at this point).
• with a person either side of the tent raise up the rear legs and ring and pin one side only. Move to the middle poles and repeat, then for the front poles. You should now have one side ring and pinned and the person on the other side holding it steady.
• Ring and pin the other side.
• Attach the remaining legs front and back of the tent, ring and pin them
• You may now need to unpeg the corners and reposition.
• We then slide in the central flexi-pole

Hope it helps

Charlie88

Topic: Vango Aspen 700 Review and Erection!

There is a very detailed account of the above topic by "Dreamwolf" posted last year on 12-08-2005. This is one I read shortly after buying out tent.

Unfortunatley I do not know how to attach it as a link. But you may be able to search for it.

Charlie 88

hi all

have you had a look at the vango web site and there video it shows you how to put up we tent to follow what charlie88 does

,but we stand the red legs first  then the  rest but don't clip until standing .then adjust till correct shape . if you look at the threads on here over the last three months you should get all the information you need  i think at the end of the day every one has there own way of putting the aspen up .we used to stand inside but find the way we do with the red legs first you don't need to .hpoe this may help

from fran and steve

The poles are heavy I'm afraid, but thats what gives the tent strength. We put all the coloured poles in the sleeves of the inner after pegging out the groudsheet my wife goes in the tent to lift up the p[olles as best she can while I run around the outside putting up as many of the poles as quickly as possible, usually the ends of the poles are initially dug into the grass away from their final position, this takes some weight off the poles for my wife and also allows easier fixing of the poles into their ring and pin.