Lightweight Tents How Light
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Lightweight Tents - How Light?
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547
Summary:
How light are the new lightweight backpacking tents? Some are under three pounds now. Here’s s
Keywords:
lightweight tents, ultralight tents, tents, lightweight backpacking
Article Body:
Why use lightweight and ultralight tents? Because a heavy tent is one of the biggest obstac
1. Are you claustrophobic? Some ultralight tent designs are really just fancy bivy sacks.
2. How tall are you? If the length of the tent is only a few inches more than your height,
3. What do you do in a tent? If you just sleep, total floor and head space are not importa
4. Do you backpack in bad weather often? If all you plan to do is camp on nice summer nigh
5. How much have you budgetted for a tent? More money equals a lighter tent, but if you ca
6. Which is more important to you, fast set-up or lightest weight? Hopefully you’ll find a te
More About Lightweight Tents
Single-layer tents (without a rain-fly) will usually have more condensation inside. This is
Test your tent. It’s no fun spending 20 minutes setting up a complicated tent in the rain.
There is only one totally enclosed 2-person ultralight tent that I know of under 3 pounds.
There are "floorless" tents, which are specially cut tarps which typically use your trekkin
Unfortunately, I’ve discovered the hard way - four tents and counting - that you tend to ge
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Lightweight Tents - How Light?
Word Count:
547
Summary:
How light are the new lightweight backpacking tents? Some are under three pounds now. Here’s s
Keywords:
lightweight tents, ultralight tents, tents, lightweight backpacking
Article Body:
Why use lightweight and ultralight tents? Because a heavy tent is one of the biggest obstac
1. Are you claustrophobic? Some ultralight tent designs are really just fancy bivy sacks.
2. How tall are you? If the length of the tent is only a few inches more than your height,
3. What do you do in a tent? If you just sleep, total floor and head space are not importa
4. Do you backpack in bad weather often? If all you plan to do is camp on nice summer nigh
5. How much have you budgetted for a tent? More money equals a lighter tent, but if you ca
6. Which is more important to you, fast set-up or lightest weight? Hopefully you’ll find a te
More About Lightweight Tents
Single-layer tents (without a rain-fly) will usually have more condensation inside. This is
Test your tent. It’s no fun spending 20 minutes setting up a complicated tent in the rain.
There is only one totally enclosed 2-person ultralight tent that I know of under 3 pounds.
There are "floorless" tents, which are specially cut tarps which typically use your trekkin
Unfortunately, I’ve discovered the hard way - four tents and counting - that you tend to ge
This is a demo version of txt2pdf v.10.1
Developed by SANFACE Software http://www.sanface.com/
Available at http://www.sanface.com/txt2pdf.html