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Hi,

Just come back from Edale, camped in our new BL 6.

Had a few teething problems like zipper for groundsheet put on wrong way round which we managed to sort.

Anyway just to say tent was fab in every way, comfortable and cosy. I'm giving polycotton tents a big thumbs up and if you're in the market for a new tent i'd say these should be top of the list.

All the best

Has tp pack the tent away wet. Its now drying, hanging from the top of my stairs.

Do you think there will be any shrinkage problems?

Yep, staircase is quite a drop!

Have got the tent drapped over the rail at the top of the stairs, and it reaches the floor at the bottom. It took 2 of us as is indeed v heavy.

Couldn't think of anywhere else to dry it. Garden is multi level, so that wouldn't be suitable. Just hope it doesn't shrink!!

Looks like a parachute at the mo!

Hi Steve,

We didin't encounter any such problems although one of the little button catches on a side pole was missing.

Maybe taping something to the end spikes on the side bars may help

Regards

Hi

I also love our BL6 but find it too much for a weekend....brave you!

The dside bars are OK if you swivvel them inways so they will not catch on the mesh. We put the groundsheet on the wrong way round first time so a mark saying which side up (or down) would help....we wrote on ours then realised what we had written...."front bottom"..!  it is in full view too!!

Just wish:

mesh on front door,   more velcro on curtains,  more pockets in bed areas,  better way of closing outer doors on windowseg more velcro perhaps/,  a few more loops inside for hanging coats etc, but all pretty minor as so much is really spot on.

We have the wolf lake but I guess it goes up very similar to the Bear lakes. We put the tent up first then lay out the ZIG. Then we attach the inners. I would guess its a nightmare trying to fold up the tent with the ZIG and inners attached.

By the way our tent is draped over our banister from the weekend still. It didnt get wet with rain, but it was still wet from the dew on sunday morning. It dried within 3 hours in the house but the problem we have now is that there hasnt been a dry enough day since for our lawn to dry out so we can lay the tent out to fold it back up!

It isnt half getting on my nerves now!

Sunvalleysue

I have to say I would have to think very hard before giving up my bed for my tent as much as I love it!!