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 Topic: Looking at new tent for 2022
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12/1/2022 at 10:26pm
Location: NW England
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It depends on how much your budget is but if you had a Berghaus Air 4 you can purchase a porch bit to add on, see https://youtu.be/KmQa7xTEqCg for some pics.
I don't have the porch but I do have the Air 4, it's ideal for two.
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16/1/2022 at 6:04pm
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The Easycamp Palmdale is an oversize tunnel tent. Great for camping in good weather but if you get gusty winds from the sides the poles will be under pressure and start to shred from the joints until they snap. If a strong wind is coming from the front the porch will become a parachute and start loosening then pulling it's pegs out of the ground. Once the porch guy lines have pulled out, the porch poles will start blowing into the front tent poles damaging them and the fabric, and pulling out more guy lines. Once the main fabric of the flysheet starts to rip it will continue to rip and shred although it is supposed to be rip-stop fabric.
The manufacturers use of double guy lines on the poles (one above the other)to try and keep the poles in shape shows that they are aware of these issues and have attempted to resolve them.
To my eye the black (glass) fiber poles look too thin to do the job in bad weather, a heavier gauge pole would be more expensive and make the packed tent bulky.
Your desire for a tent you can stand up in is in conflict with your need for a tent that can survive in bad weather. If your present tent is still functional consider getting a tarp and a couple of poles to build a porch but accept you may have to take it down in a storm.
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17/1/2022 at 10:58am
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Having wrestled with tarps I now use Decathlon's fishing brolly with sides that peg down and a spike for clamping into ground. You can fit a small table and chair under this. Add extra guys if it is super windy. Look at a bivvy from Go Outdoors but you will need one without a floor. You wont be able to stand up though.
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