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Garden Camping - a bit OT!
If you are camping in the garden just to give your young son an experience then surely your husband can rough it for a night or two? Your son will probably have more fun in the smallest tent you can find. Hi Alan The point is that we want to see how it goes in the garden first, before going further afield later on. My husband isn't keen on small tents in the first place, that's why I was asking! Lynda |
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Garden Camping - a bit OT!
In message , Lynda Thornton
writes If you are camping in the garden just to give your young son an experience then surely your husband can rough it for a night or two? Your son will probably have more fun in the smallest tent you can find. Hi Alan The point is that we want to see how it goes in the garden first, before going further afield later on. My husband isn't keen on small tents in the first place, that's why I was asking! There are quite a few tents around that will give your husband the necessary head room - Depends partly on how big generally you want the tent, there tends to be a bit of a relationship between floorplan size and height. Our Kyham would give him plenty of headroom, but it's a bit big for 3. It's a few years old now, but the nearest model current is probably the XXL Excelsior , but they have others :-) http://www.khyam.co.uk/product_tent....E&type=Family/ Group Kyham are not cheap, but of good quality, and very sturdy in windy weather. Ebay can be good place for tent buying, you get a lot of not used much tents sold by people who try it once or twice then decide it' not for them -- Chris French |
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Garden Camping - a bit OT!
In article , chris French
writes In message , Lynda Thornton writes If you are camping in the garden just to give your young son an experience then surely your husband can rough it for a night or two? Your son will probably have more fun in the smallest tent you can find. Hi Alan The point is that we want to see how it goes in the garden first, before going further afield later on. My husband isn't keen on small tents in the first place, that's why I was asking! There are quite a few tents around that will give your husband the necessary head room - Depends partly on how big generally you want the tent, there tends to be a bit of a relationship between floorplan size and height. Our Kyham would give him plenty of headroom, but it's a bit big for 3. It's a few years old now, but the nearest model current is probably the XXL Excelsior , but they have others :-) http://www.khyam.co.uk/product_tent....E&type=Family/ Group Kyham are not cheap, but of good quality, and very sturdy in windy weather. Ebay can be good place for tent buying, you get a lot of not used much tents sold by people who try it once or twice then decide it' not for them Hi Chris Thanks for that, very useful and I will be following up all suggestions of specific types and models to find the best one for us. Lynda |
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Garden Camping - a bit OT!
have you thought about a frame tent? Most are over two metres high and
traditionally have loads of head room and space. We have several tents and will take a dome for weekends but always use the frame tent for anything longer. After talking at length to experienced campers using dome tents it seems that putting up one of the bigger, more complicated domes takes as long as a frame tent. The only saving seems to be in car space as a frame tent is about twice a big as an equivalent sized dome when packed (a big one is anyway). -- Hayley (gardening on well drained, alkaline clay in Somerset) |
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Garden Camping - a bit OT!
In message , H Ryder
writes have you thought about a frame tent? Most are over two metres high and traditionally have loads of head room and space. We have several tents and will take a dome for weekends but always use the frame tent for anything longer. After talking at length to experienced campers using dome tents it seems that putting up one of the bigger, more complicated domes takes as long as a frame tent. The only saving seems to be in car space as a frame tent is about twice a big as an equivalent sized dome when packed (a big one is anyway). Our Kyham isn't a dome, but it has some of the benefits of such, but it also has some of the benefits of frame tents as the main poles are mostly straight, so it is quite a boxy shape - and is more stable in strong winds than most dome designs of it's size.. It's not that quick to fully put up really - though I hurry I can have the outer up and stable enough for shelter in about 10 minutes, but quicker than frame tent (which I don't really like for various reasons). Another advantage of domes etc. is the greater flexibility for variations in designs, though given some of the crappy designs some come up with that's a sometimes dubious benefit. -- Chris French |
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