This design intrigues me, but I wonder if anyone still uses it? Is it lightweight?

Essentially, most tarp tent users utilize the lean-to pitch, with one side down facing into the wind and the other side up slightly, or a lot. Sil-nylon is the preferred ultralight tarp material and is very light. Here are some pitching examples and more info:

http://www.purcelltrench.com/tarptips.htm

I’m trying to get a good quality tent but inexpensive. I looked online on Costco.ca website and they have one that $109.00 CDN. Can any comment on whether it’s good to get or not?
Here’s the spec I got.
Sleeps 3 persons
Lightweight compact design
Full fly sheet, 75-denier polyester rip-stop fabric with coating for waterproofness to 2000 mm
210-denier nylon floor with coating for waterproofness to 3000 mm
All seams taped for complete weather protection
7000 series aluminum poles
Aluminum stakes and storm ropes included
Comes in 210-denier nylon compression bag

It really depends on what you are looking for. The weight listed is 7.6 lbs (3.4kg), which is pretty heavy. If you are not going very far, then it is ok since to get a lighter tent, you will have to pay a lot more. If you don’t intend to go out all that often, it can be worth it to pay less and deal with it.

I doubt that it would really be acceptable for 3 people. In general, you need to subtract one person from what is claimed. Also, getting in and out can be a problem with three people.

It seems reasonable for a low cost tent. In warm weather, it might have issues since ventilation seems to be limited. You could take the rainfly off, but then if it rains, you will have problems.

My backpacking tent is larger and weight just over 3 lbs, has great ventilation and is warm in cold weather, but is a lot more expensive than that. To me, it is worth it, but I would not suggest it if you don’t intend to use it a lot.

I’m used to camping in places that I can drive to, but My husband and I were trying to figure out if we could go somewhere across the country. This would mean flying, with all our camping gear or sucking it up and staying in a hotel.

Has anyone had experience flying to go camping, with a full size tent and supplies? Is this really feasible or should I get the lightweight backpackers tent? Even that would have to fit two.

I’d plan on buying all my food there, and I’m guessing I’d have to forgo my cast iron crock pot. Any other tips?

Unless you like camping like you are backpacking, or flying to camp with friends who already have camping gear there you can borrow, flying to another area to camp sucks. Even when you fly to another area, borrowing other people’s camping gear sucks because it’s hard to return it dried out and clean. It also sucks to fly and camp with local people who have many changes of clothes to stay fresh, but you just have a couple because of space constraints. But, for lack of a better option, when we flew we borrowed. We could have never brought enough stuff to regular camp without borrowing. Our existing gear at home, like bulky sleeping bags, coleman stoves, full-size pot and pan sets, tents, lawn chairs and the like, were just too bulky.

Therefore, if you can’t borrow, your only option is to pack like you’re going to be backpacking, but don’t need food and don’t care how heavy your pack is.

To be comfortable, you’ll need the following quality backpacking equipment:

-backpacking backpacks
-backpacking 3-person dome tent
-decent therma-rest type sleeping pads
-Good 0 degree or better sleeping bags (preferably down, since they pack the lightest and
smallest… just don’t get them wet).
-lightweight "Sling-Light" chairs http://www.slinglight.com/ http://crazycreek.com/product/specials/66/
-In case it rains, a couple rain-flies (from full size tents) and a lot of parachute chord
-"Nesting" camping cook pot sets and some folding handle mugs
-Silverwear and misc. cooking crap
-A couple of backpacking stoves, preferably the liquid fuel kind so you can carry an extra bottle of fuel or two.
-Obviously clothing of different climates.
-Toiletries

I could get all of the above strapped into (and onto) my large backpacking backpack, including the sleeping pad, sleeping bag, chair, and tent, but it would weigh over 50lbs., so I would count on being charged extra for your overweight luggage. I’ve flown with my backpacking backpack before (minus the tent, chair, and pad, mind you) and they made me put it in a huge, thick mil plastic bag (so the straps and such don’t rip off) and then charged me extra.

Also, if the airlines weren’t being such dumb— wussies about carry-on luggage, you could always take extra changes of clothes in carry-on daypack backpacks. But I’d call the airline about that one, thanks to underwear bomber and society’s willingness to let a few terrorists scare us into having to be treated like cattle.

I just got elected Senior Patrol Leader of my scout troop. Thus far I’ve been able to get by without a tent but I figure I should probably get one now. I need a tent that’s fairly lightweight for camping trips. Thankfully, we don’t do too many long backing hikes(at most 4-7 miles), so it doesn’t have to be feather weight. Does anyone know what percent of your pack the tent should weigh? I’m debating between this three person tent (some sites say it can hold four)
http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2781729 and this two person tent.
http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2781727 The three person weighs about ten pounds :0 but the two person weighs only three. However, it’d be nice to have extra room so I can have another scout in mine, since we don’t have enough tents.
I have a gift card to Dick’s, so I’d be nice if I could find one from there.

I just recently bought a tent from http://www.appytrails.com.
It will sleep up to 5 people and only weighs 1 pound 11 ounces. The man that owns the company is a scout leader in Tennessee. I have used the tent several times now and couldn’t be more please with it.

When it comes to backpacking it doesn’t matter how long or how short your hike is going to be. Weight matters. My previous tent was a Eureka that only weighed 5.5 pounds. Add this to everything else in my pack and the total weight was almost 50 pounds. After doing a shakedown on my pack i was able to bring the weight down to 25 pounds. I then bought my new tent shedding roughly 4 more pounds. my total pack weight is now 21 pounds.

check out the Appy Trails tent they have 2 models a 3 man and a 5 man. The 3 man is only a little over one pound.

A manufacturer of tents makes a standard model and a lightweight model for distribution. Each Standard tent requires 3 labor hours from the assembly department and 1 labor hour from the cutting department. Each lightweight tent requires 4 labor hours from the assemble department and 2 labor hours from the cutting department. The maximum labor hours available per day in the assembly and cutting departments are 84 and 32, respectively. If the company makes a profit of $45 on each standard model and $75 on each lightweight model, how many of each type of tent should be manufactured each day to maximize the total daily profit.

A) State the objective function and the linear constraints.

Objective Function:

Linear Constraints:

B) Graph the feasible region:

Please Help! D=

16 Standard Tents
8 Lightwieght Tents

Use 80 hours of Assembly Labor and 32 hours of Cutting labor.
Overall Profit of $1,220 per day.

Feel free to do the rest yourself

am looking for the finest, lightest American-made equipment for a possible hike across the country. Need a one-man tent, or maybe just a really good sleeping bag. Will be hiking a lot, must have the lightest and best. Thank-you!

I seriously doubt if anything is actually made in America anymore so scratch that requirement off of your list
At certain level and price point things pretty much will equal out and the decision will then be based upon what’s good for you and your own particular circumstances

Looking for a three-person, completely waterproof, very lightweight, easy to set up tent for Indian outdoors (min temp – 0 degrees celsius); I’d prefer if the tent has a vestibule as well. Please respond with brand name and model so I can look up the specs on the Net.

I would go with Sierra Design, Marmot or Black Diamond. All of these companies make a high end tent. Price will range based on size and weight. Tents don’t really have a temp Min or Max, that will be more of a sleeping bag issue. Any good 3 season tent w/ a rainfly will provide enough protection in 0 celsius weather(if you have a good 0 celsius sleeping bag) Go to REI.com to get a good breakdown on each tent. If you are going to be spending lots of time camping in the rain, i would suggest a silt tarp. These are very very lightweight tarps that pack down small. They are completely waterproof and are great for adding additional rain protection for your tent in downpours, or to create a dry sitting area. It’s always nice to have a space outside of the tent to wait out rainstorms. Hope this helps.

Specifications:

- Lightweight
- 3-season tent (at least, a 4 season tent would be great too)
- 1 to 2 man
- If 1 man, must be a little larger to accommodate a pack.
- Bug Resistant
- Stand alone and/or includes poles
- Includes a rain-fly
- Either (A. Online) or (B. Local to Salt Lake City)
- Size: 6 to 6.5 feet in length, 3-4 feet in width, and 2-5 feet in height
- Must last me at least a year with proper care and usage in the conditions specified above

If weight is a big concern, I’d look at the REI quarter-dome tent. That’s what I use for canoeing. I’ve been using it on and off for the past 6 months and it’s held up fine for me so far. Two weeks ago I used it in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area on a solo trip. It fit me, two packs worth of gear and my large dog just fine.

I’m 6 ft tall, but if you’re any taller you’ll find this and most other tents don’t fit great. A friend of mine borrowed it for a trip, he’s 6’4" and had to sleep diagonal in it.

As for weight, there are a couple tents that shave off some ounces, at most 1lb, but you’re going to see less space and more cost. This isn’t the cheapest tent out there, but drop almost 2 lbs off the half-dome version and I’m guessing 3 lbs from the coleman.

If you’re going to be in an area with trees that you can hang a hammock, I would recommend checking out Hennesy Hammocks. I’ve used mine when it’s as hot as 90 degrees and as cold as 35 degrees. You need to spend a little extra to make it warm, but I think it’s worth it. The hammock plus insulation weighs 1-2 lbs less than a tent and sleeping pad and for me is just as warm. You also get the added benefit of never sleeping on top of a rock/root/incline again.

I’ trying to define and summarise my beliefs, thoughts, outlook on life and how I wish to live my life. If anyone happens to stumble across this thread and knows a little or alot about what im talking about, would you be so kind as to help me figure out myself!!

Ok so, I feel I am a socialist, a communist libertarian who believes:
- There should be no money, there should be no restraints to our lives, there should be no superiors telling us what we can or can’t do because we are poor.

- There should be no skyscrapers, no huge buildings. They ruin the landscape, *insert anti-capitalism babble here*

- I want to live in a rural area when I move out from uni/home. Possibly near a beach- so I will feel closer to nature- closer to the outside world. The sea is so free, and I love beaches: I want to be free from modern society that restraints me so.

- Its so hard to explain everything!! so bear with me, It’ll all come out eventually xD don’t give up on me yet

- I am bisexual, I feel that freedom of sexuality should be as free as life itself, so therefore.. I must be free from.. well, *babble*. I admie the ancient greek’s outlook on sexuality, they adorned tableware and artwork with images of hetro and homo sexuality. I envy them!!

- I don’t like money, it depresses and stresses me. Everything should be free. Ancient tribes, and undiscovered tribes today hidden away in Africa or anywhere work like clockwork, because there is an un-selfish understanding of share and share alike.

- Those tribes have survival skills passed down from generations. I want to learn these skills, so not to loose them in the modern society world. I want to survive!! My opinion on the meaning of life is to SURVIVE, and not to work for money to make a living. I watch Ray Mears when I can, wildlife documentaries to LEARN about our natural world!! *Sorry about caps/ !!’s, I get very excited about nature blah blah *

- I want to learn more, meet like minded people, explore my sexuality!! (not nessaceraly at the same time xD as I do have a boyfriend… But thats another matter xD)

- I’m planning to go to Africa to volunteer for a conservation programme for lions Love the things… and tigers, all big cats.. well, all animals. Maybe big cats in particular because of our ancestors roots to Africa… Mmmm wildlife ^^

- I believe in finding a life partner. Have kids and continue, teach the way to survive. (not your soul mate xD, as in there is someone set in the stars.. blahblah… im not supersitious. that is bollocks )

- OH!! I love camping!! Being out in a huge forest or next to a beach.. bliss!! Of course I’d love to do it o’natural, with twig bivvies and cooking fish or a caught chicken in an underground wood oven, but however i lack the skills to do this, so untill i do learn, its campfires with huge pots of pasta! And lightweight fabric tents!! but i do love my sleeping bag… It’ll do for now…

I think I’ve explained everything…
Politics – There should be none!! Apart from the mutual agreements between a tribe!.
Life- To survive, we should live to survive not work
Love- to explore, and also to find a life partner to have kids with to continue the survival of man kind ^^
Rural vs urban- Rural all the way!! I’d rather sleep in a bivvy all my life than live in a sky scraper!!

Phew xD *breathes* Thanks for reading, Those left wwho didn’t give up half way thanks again!! Would be awesome if you had any thoughts if theres any word or anything that defines this!!

Thanks
Edit: I’m an atheist
2nd edit xD: Ok, point taken about the ‘labelling’ An alternate question: How do I break out of my routines? Any guidance on how to start living the way I’d like to? I’m olnly 18! So I have no idea I’m hoping to be a freelance ceramicist so I’ll have thre freedom I want *sigh* Ah well xD

I think what you may be interested in is covered in the broad term of "Homesteading". This movement is not new and not for everyone. It takes everyone and everything ‘out of your business’ unless you want it there. You remove yourself from society basically and only interact with others how and when you wish. Money is a movable feast, and if you network enough, I am sure you can find like individuals who believe in the barter system. What you do in your bedroom is your own business, and there are persons in all walks of life involved in the homesteading movement. This is a very meaningful way of life, I was raised on a farm and my parents embraced some of the basic homesteading practices. I think you will enjoy it.

I have enclosed a link.

http://www.dmoz.org/Home/Rural_Living/Homesteading/

http://www.lightweightbackpacking101.com/images/lightweight_backpacking_tent.jpg

pleeaaaase!?

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