Show us yer tents!

[Greg]

My Solo One Man Tent is the same as this one shown by rik-uk3:
http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20181&highlight=Argos+tent

I also have a larger 5 man tent for the family:

And my Bushy set up, some of the time anyway!

Or:

 

[KAE1]

Just noticed this thread so thought I 'd add a pic of our new 'cheap' family tent - a eurohike buckingham at £120

 

[xylaria]

The tent that taste forgot

Cost £15 second hand. Great tent stands up to really bad weather without any complaint. We squash four of us it. It must be older than me.

 

[tomtom]

Heres mine!

 

[gorilla]

Royal Montpellier 12 for the tribe - 4 bedrooms, 30 foot wide, sod to put up!!!

and i've just got this off Squidders for me on my own, and SWMBO once in a while!!

 

[Karl5]

What bivvy bag is that, Greg?
Add a homemade mozzie net (and try and lie still during the night), and I'd be very tempted by that one...

/ Karl

 

[Dyemor]

This is what we used for a group shelter on a recent canoe trip. 2x 3m x 3m tarps and 2 extending poles.

 

[Greg]

What bivvy bag is that, Greg?
Add a homemade mozzie net (and try and lie still during the night), and I'd be very tempted by that one...

/ Karl

Hey Karl,
Its a British Army issue goretex bivvybag, you can pick them up on ebay for around £25-30 and I have used one for about 15yrs now and wouldn't buy another, simply because they do the job and if it gets damaged it won't break the bank to replace it!

 

[Tengu]

I have my vango force ten, of course (for serious stuff)

but my general tent is a storproof coralado (Ill find a pic)

supposed to be two man but you could get three in it.

Also excelent as a condensation collector so you will never worry about water supply...

 

[Karl5]

Hey Karl,
Its a British Army issue goretex bivvybag, you can pick them up on ebay for around £25-30 and I have used one for about 15yrs now and wouldn't buy another, simply because they do the job and if it gets damaged it won't break the bank to replace it!

For that price I might chance it falling off the mattress every now and again.
Time to go have a look at evil-bay, methinks...

/ Karl

 

[SOAR]

Heres mine

 

[kai055]

i have a tipi but all i can say it was from millets bout this time last year and looks like the Varrie 9 bout half way down the page

 

[thingswelike]

Finally got around to taking photos of mine at the weekend. It's a Tentipi Varrie 9.
I was surprised about just how big it is. 4 of us and all the gear only filled half of it!
Mind you I thought the 7 wasn't quite large enough - they should do an 8!
Here it is...

Cheers
Alex

 

[Squidders]

I love those big cotton tentipis! I only wish I had somewhere to dry one.

Looks like a lovely spot you have there Alex

 

[thingswelike]

It was at the Delamere working weekend meet.
More photos here...
http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23801&page=2
It is a fantastic spot - unfortunately I don't know any woodland where it's possible to camp
BTW - I don't have anywhere to dry one either - We're just going to have to manage over the banisters.

 

[Squidders]

Finding woods is always the hardest part in the UK...

And you're either a very brave man or have a supremely understanding wife/girlfriend for drying a 9 man canvas tipi on a banister :You_Rock_

 

[Scots_Charles_River]

In the UK ? up here there is lots of wood. Most of it far from housing.

Here is myself and 'tent'.

 

[Grooveski]

Blacks Kintyre, bought cheap and in a hurry a couple of years ago and has put up with more rain than I expected it to.
A gale up in the hills would likely shred it but I'm rarely up hills these days and wouldn't carry the bulky piece of junk up a hill anyway.

 

[Squidders]

Well, as the UK is Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland you are in the minority up there and it is very hard for the majority.

It's a great pity the rest of the UK isn't as empty as Scotland... I am jealous

Still... I have my hidey holes so it's not all doom and gloom

In the UK ? up here there is lots of wood. Most of it far from housing.

Here is myself and 'tent'.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1296/1349543367_8187da1b8d_m.jpg

 

[Scots_Charles_River]

Blacks Kintyre, bought cheap and in a hurry a couple of years ago and has put up with more rain than I expected it to.
A gale up in the hills would likely shred it but I'm rarely up hills these days and wouldn't carry the bulky piece of junk up a hill anyway.

And is that Kintyre your camping on ?

Nick