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Well I know little about tents BUT based on advice on here, I pitched our new bear lake on the weekend and then hosepiped for an hour with no leaks.....later on Friday night we had a heavy downpour and a couple of drops appeared round by windows...I wiped up ready for night session and in the morning we had more drops but in different places...

So I would say pitch it ready for incoming bad weather on Thursday and give it a true test....Also you need to ensure all components are present and correct!!

Would be interested in the level of "floors" in fabric....I was ressured not to worry and sure enough these do not leak..

I was going to buy montana but the layout of BL6 swayed me in the shop...Love the montana all the same

MM

Hi, we used our Bar Lake 6 during the diamond jubilee week. We had not weathered it before hand. We did not get any misting but we got some in through a velcro curtain holder whichactually stayed behind the curtain which it turns out are also waterproof and I managed to catch the water in a cup (just the once, after it had dried and got wet again it did not leak) and a couple of places on seams near the door but these werte tiny drips not really worth bothering about.

Considering the wind and the amount of rain we had it performed great. We would have probably had more come in on various synthetic tents we have owned/own.

Cheers,

David

Hi Jim,

Enjoy the tent. We were used to synthetic tents (still have and will still use for shorter trips) and are gla we made the move tyo a polycotton. It has been quite a change to us from needless worrying about what looked like various flaws in the fabric to worrying about not weathering before using it on holiday. The worst I have seen posted is that you get a fine misting and some seam leaks, no one seems to post about major floods of water into the tent. It slao amaze me how the inside was dry and oft to the touch when lookingon the outside the rain seemed to be soaking into the flysheet. You can tell when its had a goo soaking as the fabric changes colour abit (goes darker) and the immediate run off of water beading stops. We also considered a Montana Lake, great tent but the Bear Lake ticked a few more boxes for us.

Cheers,

David

Ive had the sprinkler on the BL6 for the last couple of hours ( sorry to the green party but our reservoir here in Wales is brim full :) )

And I have had a few areas beneath windows and seams where water has come thro tonight...The sprinkler can only cover a limited area so I'm a little concerned what the outcome will be during a hardcore storm..

Personally I think you need to weather and set up tent prior to actually using..