The rain test!
It is not leaking.
Lost Nature Tent
Another new tent…
I have been using my other new tent – here – for the past couple of weeks in Scotland. It stood up well to Storm Betty, whilst we were at the Skye campsite and was a good tent, but now I want a bit more room.
For £124 I got a Vango Banshee 200. It is listed as a 2 person tent but it would be very cramped for two adults, unless they were on very friendly terms, or it was an emergency. It is listed as a tent suitable for Duke of Edinburgh Award activities and the illustrations show two smaller people sleeping head to tail in it – that would work.
I liked the asymmetrical design. On one side there is a large porch, suitable for a brew up with my small stove or for storing a rucksack, on the other enough room to put some boots or a folding chair in out of the weather. It has doors on both sides and plenty of ventilation, including a low level vent with a bug net which can also be closed off.
Another good point is that the inner tent and fly go up as one – so in the rain the inner tent does not get (so) wet.
It is up in the garden waiting for a rain test.
Jeremy now has the Lost Nature tent.
Dry again – no leaks…
…and pitched better with the flysheet tied to the poles.
I have packed away the tent now and the cat is disappointed as she has been sleeping under the flysheet.
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Now it’s raining
Before taking the new tent away I wanted to check it was waterproof. The tent was delivered just before the thunder storms on Sunday so I missed my chance then. Since then, of course, there has been sun and just a little rain.
Now it is getting wet.
New tent
Now I want it to rain – to test it is waterproof.
The new tent is a Lost Nature one man tent from an Amazon shop – where they named it “Clostnature”, because of the logo printed on the tent!
Not as hi-tech as my MSR but as the seam sealing tape has failed completely on that – and MSR could not help – the new tent is waterproof which makes it far more useful.
Including the footprint I got change out of £90.
With care and using my Alpkit Kraku stove, a titanium mug and just enough flame I can brew an early morning coffee or boil water for a dehydrated meal in the rain.
