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Monday Tip - Tent Orientation
By Jon on 23/05/2011 11:40:01
Handy advice on how to stop your tent from crumpling in windy conditions.
This week's Monday Tip is all about tent orientation – in other words, how to pitch your tent to maximise its strength in the wind. And don't assume that just because you own a dome tent, you can ignore this...The Big PictureIf things look windy
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Fjallräven Gets Serious With Tents
By Jon on 22/05/2012 15:42:57
New lightweight and mountain tent ranges for this spring from top Swedish brand.
performance tents utilising a new Triple-Rip flysheet fabric.Abisko Lightweights - Light All-In-One Pitching Tunnels There are two series of tents in the new line. The gramme-saving, three-season, Abisko Lightweights which Fjallräven says, are all about
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Alpkit's Prototype Tents Revealed
By Jon on 09/12/2010 20:03:10
See the three Alpkit tents that have been in development for almost a year now.
We first brought you a scoop look at Alpkit's tents earlier this year - first the lightweight option snapped during a flying visit to Alpkit HQ and then the basecamp and geodesic mountain models paparazzied at a mountain bike event in the summer
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Incoming! Alpkit's New Tents
By Jon on 19/08/2011 10:55:33
Just heard from Alpkit that their new mountain tent range has shipped and will be in the shops in September.
Just heard from the guys at Alpkit that their new range of mountain tents has just shipped from the factory in China which means they should be on sale in late September, 2011.We've told you a bit about the new tent range in the past, links
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Inside Alpkit's New Tents...
By Jon on 10/03/2011 15:49:53
Getting all close up and personal with the new range of mountain tents from Alpkit.
Literally inside Alpkit's new tents, we had lunch inside one of the Hex basecamp biggies before going over the basics of the new range of mountain tents due out some time this summer.We've carried some basic details and images of the new tents
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World's Lightest Tent Scoop!
By Jon on 21/07/2003 09:35:42
It's new, it's British and it's the lightest double-skin tent in the world - probably - scoop pics and specs of the tent that could change your approach to backpacking forever...
You have to worry when a tent designer knows to a gramme theweight of the zips he specifies, but when the results are these, youcan see why: it's the world's lightest double skin tent, it's comingsoon and even better, it's made by a specialist
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Terra Nova Tents Scoop!
By Jon on 28/06/2004 16:25:07
First look at the new tents which Terra Nova reckons are the lightest ever, full-sized, two-person, dual-skinned backpacking tents on the market, plus a lighter Quasar.
the radicallylightweight Laser and Laserlite tents, probably thelightest dual-skinned tents in the world - at just 990 grammes for theone-person Laserlite and 1.15 kilos for the slightly larger Laser.See thisOM article.The original Lasers used a single pole design along
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Tent care, cleaning and maintenance
By OM / Grangers on 19/11/2004 10:00:50
If you want to prolong the life of your tent you need to take good care of it
Products: clean with Fabsil Universal Cleaner; proof with Fabsil Universal Protector or Fabsil GoldCleaning your tentFirst things first, put up the tent on a nice dry day1. First of all, it’s important to pick a dry day. You need to allow the tent
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Macpac Tent Winners Announced
By Jon on 19/08/2004 15:29:50
We've just drawn the lucky winners of a Macpac Minaret and a Microlight tent from the OM competition hamster ball, so was it you? It certainly wasn't me, never is :-(
andcomiserations to the massive number of people who entered. Don'tdespair though, we'll be bringing you a new competition in the nearfuture.Meanwhile, don't forget you can always buy a Macpac tent of yourvery own. This year's models have been refined carefully
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Vango's 2011 Mountain Tents Revealed
By Jon on 06/01/2011 13:29:33
New and updated Vango tents for this spring unveiled.
New And Updated For 2011Vango's being bullish on its mountain tent line for 2011 with a quick run-down of three tents in their four-season range which they say cater for 'experienced mountaineers, backpackers and four-season campers' and we thought
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