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Hi,

We have a Sun Valley 6 and bought it last year with the carpet & kids room.  That's a good deal you found there, think I saw it or something similiar!

Now ... the first time we tried putting it up, we nearly came to blows. We are experienced campers and tried putting it up as we would have a smaller tunnel tent. Wrong!  The air vacumm created by trying to lift the tent nearly snapped the poles.  Outwell do not do (in my personal opinion) the best video instructions for putting their tents up, but in this case we worked out what they meant and followed them - checkout their website for the pitching instructions.

Lay the tent out flat.  Insert the pole into the rear pole sleeve. Bend the pole to fit both ends into the ring & pin and then raise the pole to form the arc and peg it down (pegs can be moved later for adjustment). We found we then needed a child to hold the guy-rope for this hoop to stop it falling down again. We then put each pole into each sleeve and raised them one by one.  We 'walked' the hoops into place to ensure the tent is taut and quickly pegged the guy-ropes to keep it in place whilst making the adjustments.

The side bars seem to be too long, but that's ok. They are what gives the tunnel its stability and we experienced our tent being completely blown sideways last August in Wales and it then sprang straight back up again.

Good choice of tent!

SK camping, I think they have some bits on ebay but they are at: www.skcamping.com

good luck and don't be afraid to haggle!

Cheers

Tom.